Mon 02 June 2025: Beijing says the US is touting Cold War mentality after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls China a threat to the region. China has warned the United States against “playing with fire” over Taiwan in response to US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calling the Asian power a “threat to the region” at […]
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Sun 01 June 2025: The Indian military confirmed for the first time on Saturday the loss of fighter jets in recent clashes with Pakistan. Anil Chauhan, the chief of the Indian Defence Staff, told Bloomberg TV that “what is important (for India) is not the jet being down, but why they were down.” “… why […]
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Sun 01 June 2025: Fugitive former prime minister Sheikh Hasina orchestrated a “systemic attack” on protests against her government, Bangladeshi prosecutors said on Sunday at the opening of her trial over the deadly crackdown. “Upon scrutinising the evidence, we reached the conclusion that it was a coordinated, widespread and systematic attack,” Mohammad Tajul Islam, chief prosecutor at […]
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Sun 01 June 2025: UN Office on Drugs and Crime says ‘explosive growth’ in synthetic drug trade led to record seizures of methamphetamine in East and Southeast Asia in 2024. Drug production and trafficking has surged in the infamous “Golden Triangle“, where the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand meet, the United Nations Office on […]
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Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar with the acting Afghan Prime Minister, Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund. Sat 31 May 2025: Pakistan has announced it will designate an ambassador to Afghanistan, the first since the Taliban re-entered and captured Kabul in 2021, in a move aimed at improving previously strained relations between the neighbouring […]
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Sat 31 May 2025: US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Saturday that China plans to “invade” Taiwan in 2027 and warned that any attempt could result in devastating consequences for the Indo-Pacific region and the world. Hegseth urged US allies in the region to increase their defense spending as he addressed the Shangri-La Dialogue […]
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Sat 31 May 2025: New Delhi: For the first time, France’s armed forces ministry has said it is in contact with the Indian government to “better understand” the circumstances surrounding French-origin aircraft during the recent hostilities between India and Pakistan. At a press conference in Paris on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the French defence ministry said the situation […]
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Fri 30 May 2025: Chinese state media says the mission aims ‘to shed light on the formation and evolution of asteroids’ and the Earth. China has successfully launched a spacecraft as part of its first-ever mission to retrieve pristine asteroid samples, in what researchers have described as a “significant step” in Beijing’s ambitions for interplanetary […]
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Fri 30 May 2025: The statement also cited Mahatma Gandhi’s statement wherein he had said that Palestine belongs to the Arabs and it was “wrong and inhuman to impose the jews on the Arabs.” Signatories to a statement from around the world have expressed their concern over the fact that India – which had always […]
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Thu 29 May 2025: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced significant energy developments during a speech on Thursday. Highlighting Turkey’s expanding role in regional energy, Erdogan revealed that Turkish Petroleum has reached an agreement to explore two onshore fields in Pakistan. Additionally, the two countries agreed on offshore exploration, with operations set to begin soon. […]
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