The Dalai Lama said on Wednesday that a non-profit that he has founded will have the sole authority to recognise his future reincarnation, countering China’s insistence that it will choose the successor of the Tibetan spiritual leader. The remarks by the leader, who turns 90 on Sunday, came during a week of celebrations to mark […]
Read MoreTaiwan will simulate a Chinese blockade and invasion of the democratic island in its annual military and civil defence drills next week, as President Lai Ching-te warned on Tuesday the island was already facing China’s “war without gun smoke”. The annual Han Kuang exercises starting on July 9 will last for 10 days and mobilize […]
Read MoreAgence France-Presse US President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed the importance of aggressive actions linked to Beijing including recent arrests of two Chinese nationals accused of smuggling a dangerous pathogen into the United States, saying “that’s the way the world works”. Trump told Fox News that Washington behaves in a similar way. “You don’t think […]
Read MoreThe Dalai Lama will address a major three-day gathering of Buddhist religious figures this week ahead of his 90th birthday, as his followers wait for the Tibetan spiritual leader to share details about his succession in a move that could irk China. Beijing views the Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed […]
Read MorePresident Donald Trump dismissed recent remarks by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had warned the US against further military action and claimed that Iran had “won the war” with Israel. Speaking to the press and later on social media, Trump rejected Khamenei’s statements, arguing they contradicted the facts on the ground. He pointed […]
Read MoreUS President Donald Trump sharply criticized Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamanei, on Friday, dropped plans to lift sanctions on Iran and said he would consider bombing Iran again if Tehran is enriching uranium to worrisome levels. Trump reacted sternly to Khamanei’s first remarks after a 12-day conflict with Israel that ended when the United States […]
Read MoreSouth Korea’s former President Yoon Suk Yeol answered a summons on Saturday by a special prosecutor under a threat of another arrest as an investigation intensified over the ousted leader’s failed bid to impose martial law in December. Yoon, through his lawyers, has protested the special prosecutor’s demands to appear for questioning under media attention […]
Read MoreUS President Donald Trump today (26 June) denied speculation that Iran removed any critical materials from its nuclear facilities prior to the recent US airstrikes, asserting that “nothing was taken out” of the sites. “The cars and small trucks at the site were those of concrete workers trying to cover up the top of the […]
Read MoreIran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has claimed that Israel was nearly destroyed and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic, the state news agency IRNA reports. In his first remarks since the Iran-Israel conflict ended in a ceasefire, Khamenei said, “Despite all the fanfare and claims, the Zionist regime was nearly destroyed and […]
Read MoreTEHRAN (Tasnim) – Tehran is preparing to lodge a complaint at the UN against the United States for causing damages to Iran’s facilities, an Iranian deputy foreign minister said. In an interview with Al Mayadeen TV, Saeed Khatibzadeh said Washington must compensate Iran for damaging its facilities. He said Iran will lodge a complaint against […]
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