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Australia seeks military talks with China, ties with Philippines

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Australia has asked for military talks with China and is comfortable growing closer to the Philippines, Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said on Sunday at

China’s Chang’e-6 successfully lands on rarely explored Moon’s far side to collect samples

Beijing, Jun 2 (PTI) A Chinese spacecraft successfully touched down on the far side of the Moon on Sunday, in the first endeavour of...

China, UAE ready to trade defence and security experiences

BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the United Arab Emirates have emphasised a readiness to exchange experiences on defence and security, with a view to upgrading capacities of military personnel and

South Africa’s potential kingmakers struggle with white image

By Joe Bavier and Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Looking out of his window at Cape Town's False Bay, Nick Searra acknowledges that things do work better in South Africa's second biggest city, a

US trying to build Asia-Pacific version of NATO: Chinese defence official

Singapore, Jun 2 (PTI) The US is trying to build an Asia-Pacific version of NATO through its Indo-Pacific strategy to maintain its hegemony in...

Taiwan detects 10 Chinese ships, 2 military aircraft around nation

Taipei , June 2 (ANI): The Ministry of National Defence of Taiwan detected six Chinese naval vessels, four coast guard ships, and two military...

Russia threatens former chess champion Kasparov with criminal charges

(Reuters) - Former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, who fled Russia a decade ago for fear of persecution, may face a criminal case in Moscow for violating the Kremlin's "foreign agent" law, TASS

No room for reconciliation: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf reacts to dialogue offer from PML-N, KP governor

Islamabad , June 2 (ANI): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has strongly rejected the reconciliation offer from Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governor, saying that...

Ranked third in Spelling Bee, Indian-American student determined to come back next year for top spot

Washington, Jun 2 (PTI) Ananya Prassanna, the Indian-American seventh-grader who ranked third in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, says she is determined to...

North Korea sends 600 more trash balloons over border, South says

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea sent some 600 balloons carrying trash into South Korea overnight, Seoul said on Sunday, in Pyongyang's latest move to rile its rival neighbour. The balloons carrying

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DMK ‘rising son’ Udhayanidhi Stalin should brace for challenges. Power isn’t a birthright

In the Indian political setup, the BJP and the communist parties are probably the only ones who have been able to circumvent the hereditary leadership tag.

#ByeByeAP to #LuluBackInAP: Naidu’s moves to make Andhra ‘business friendly’ & woo back investors

The Jagan Reddy govt has been accused of scuppering various investment deals. Under Naidu, the govt, is trying to make AP a top investment destination, officials and industrialists say.

‘No drone bombs or infiltration’, Army Chief says ‘battle of narratives’ must be controlled in Manipur

Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi says the Manipur conflict was triggered by a rumour and that the situation may be ‘stable today, but it is tense’.

Islam doesn’t kill democracy. The army-Islam combo does

How come Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey and Sri Lanka remain constitutional, democratic and stable despite Islam and Buddhism respectively, but Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar don’t?