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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had signed a deal with France to obtain 100 Rafale warplanes as he seeks to bolster the country’s long-term military capacity to fight Russia’s invasion. Zelenskiy is visiting Paris for talks with President Emmanuel Macron at a time when heavy Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine have increased in recent weeks and Moscow has reported ground advances in the southeastern Zaporizhzhia region. Zelenskiy told reporters he had ordered 100 Rafale fighter jets. “It will be the greatest air defence, one of the greatest in the world,” Zelenskiy said after he signed a letter of…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan and hold strategic dialogues with their foreign ministers from November 19 to 22, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced on Monday. Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, will pay a visit to the respective countries at the invitation of their respective ministry officials: Kyrgyzstan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Zheenbek Kulubaev, Uzbekistan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Bakhtiyor Saidov, and Tajikistan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sirojiddin Muhriddin, the spokesperson said.

China’s Ministry of National Defense on Monday condemned the recently announced $330-million U.S. arms sale to the Taiwan region, vowing to take all necessary measures to protect national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Spokesperson Zhang Xiaogang stated that the arms sales have severely violated the one-China principle and the three China-U.S. joint communiques, grossly interfered in China’s internal affairs, and undermined China’s sovereignty and security interests, sending wrong signals to “Taiwan independence” separatist forces. “China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposes such acts, and has lodged strong protests with the U.S. side,” he said. Zhang emphasized that using force to…

Chinese Premier Li Qiang said on Monday that China stands ready to deepen cooperation with Russia in investment, energy, agriculture and other fields. Li made the remarks in his talks with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Moscow, adding that the Chinese market welcomes more high-quality agricultural and food products from Russia. Li said that not too long ago he and Mishustin held in Hangzhou, the capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, the 30th regular meeting of the Chinese and Russian heads of government, which focused on the implementation of the important consensus reached by Chinese President Xi Jinping and…

China urges Japan to stop overstepping the line, retract its erroneous words and deeds, and honor its commitment to China with concrete actions, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said . It was reported that recently, some Japanese politicians claimed that China had “overreacted” to the wrong remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi about Taiwan. In response, Mao Ning told a regular news briefing that China has repeatedly stated its solemn position on the wrong remarks made by Takaishi regarding Taiwan, saying that the relevant remarks seriously violate the spirit of the four political documents between China and Japan…

Political figures, opinion leaders and media across China’s Taiwan region have condemned Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s provocative remarks on the region as unwise and harmful to the interests of residents on the island seeking peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. Takaichi recently said that the Chinese mainland’s “use of force on Taiwan” could constitute a “survival-threatening situation” for Japan and implied the possibility of armed intervention in the Taiwan Strait. Despite multiple representations from China, the Japanese side has refused to retract the remarks. Former chairperson of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party, Ma Ying-jeou, said that Takaichi’s attitude towards…

DHAKA : A Bangladesh court sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on Monday, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year. The ruling comes months ahead of parliamentary elections expected to be held in early February. Hasina’s Awami League party has been barred from contesting and it is feared that Monday’s verdict could stoke fresh unrest ahead of the vote. The International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh’s domestic war crimes court located in the capital Dhaka, delivered the guilty verdict amid tight security and in Hasina’s absence after she…

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan’s first Federal Constitutional Court constituted under the 27th Amendment began hearing cases under Chief Justice Aminuddin Khan on Monday. The bench of the Federal Constitutional Court commenced proceedings in Courtroom No. 2 of the Islamabad High Court. A three-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Aminuddin, is conducting the hearing. The bench comprises Justice Ali Baqar Najafi, and Justice Arshad Hussain Shah as its members. Earlier, Chief Justice Aminuddin constituted three benches. The bench No. 1 includes Chief Justice Aminuddin, Justice Ali Baqar Najafi, and Justice Arshad Hussain Shah. The second bench comprises Justice Hasan Rizvi and Justice…

A devastating road accident early on Monday killed at least 42 Indian Umrah pilgrims, including 16 from Hyderabad, after their bus collided with a diesel tanker while travelling from Makkah to Madinah, according to initial government reports. The crash occurred around 1:30am IST at Mufrihat, approximately 160km from Madinah. There were 43 passengers on board, and early reports suggest only one person survived as the bus went up in flames, charring the rest of the passengers. The group had departed from Hyderabad on November 9. Among the 43 devotees on the bus were 20 women and 11 children, all of…

Email spam is a daily struggle for many users, especially those who handle high volumes of communication. One tech journalist says a single Gmail feature helped him eliminate nearly 80% of the spam that flooded his inbox. The tool, now rolling out to users worldwide, makes unsubscribing from bulk emails faster and more effective than before. For years, Gmail has offered an “Unsubscribe” button inside bulk emails, saving users the trouble of visiting external websites.The platform has now expanded this into a more powerful feature called Manage Subscriptions, which gathers all your bulk email sources in one place and lets…