BEIJING, March 19 (Reuters) – The U.S. destroyer Ralph Johnson’s sail-through of the Taiwan Strait on March 17 was a “provocative” act by the United States and sent the wrong signals to pro-Taiwan independence forces, the Chinese military said on Saturday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyoTHLMqYEQ Such an act was “very dangerous”, a Chinese …
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Victor Osimhen equaled the Serie A goals record held by the trio of George Weah, Samuel Eto’o and Mohamed Salah after netting a brace in Napoli’s 2-1 comeback win against Udinese on Saturday. Going into the game against Udinese, Osimhen had nine goals and his first goal, which was the …
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A Russian oligarch has claimed he doesn’t know how to live on £2,500 a month after being hit by sanctions against the Russia-Ukraine war. Mikhail Fridman, who had a net worth of £7.5billion, was sanctioned by the European Union on February 28 and by the UK on March 15. The …
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Rebels from the breakaway Luhansk People’s Republic, LPR, in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region are now in control of government buildings in the city of Rubizhne, CNN reports. Luhansk and Donetsk are the two separatist regions backed by Russia. “We are located next to the administration of the city Rubizhne. The …
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An inquiry has been launched after an apparent hoax caller claiming to be the Ukrainian prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, was able to get through and speak directly to the defence secretary, Ben Wallace. After Wallace revealed news of the call on Thursday, Priti Patel said something similar had happened to …
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Search and rescue teams in Norway are looking for a missing American MV-22 Osprey aircraft that was taking part in a large NATO military exercise in northern Norway Friday. There were four Marines aboard the aircraft, Norwegian officials said. We can confirm an incident has occurred involving a Marine Corps …
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Popular navigation app, Google Maps, on Friday afternoon went down, leaving users frustrated around the world. According to Down Detector, the issues started at around 3:44pm on Friday. While reason for the outage remains unclear, more than 11,000 reports have now been logged on Down Detector. Of those who reported …
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Marina Ovsyannikova says she has refused an asylum offer in France despite potentially facing further prosecution. Russia’s Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova says she has quit her job but refused to accept an asylum offer in France after publicly challenging the Kremlin’s narrative about the war in Ukraine on live …
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UEFA Maintains Position On Real Madrid vs Chelsea Quarter-final Clash UEFA has confirmed that Chelsea will not play against Real Madrid at home for the second leg of their Champions League quarter-final tie. The Blues were drawn against Los Blancos during Friday’s draw in Nyon. It was reported Chelsea’s tie …
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On a day of shame for the EU, it emerged ten member states sold hundreds of millions of pounds of military kit to Russia between 2015 and 2020 * Paris sent bombs, rockets and explosives, as well as thermal-imaging cameras for 1,000 tanks and infra-red detectors for jets. * Berlin …
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