2 week agoChinese video posted on Xigua threatens direct nuclear assault on Japan "if Japan interferes in Chinese internal affairs." The threat of nuclear first-use is called "The Japan Exception." Posted under an account run by the Baoji Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China
Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 140 km ESE of Laikit, Laikit II (Dimembe), Indonesia
Gigantic hangar near secretive Chinese test facilities points to exotic airship development
Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 43 km W of Tianpeng, China
2 week agoSunset protest against dictatorship by residents from Phaungkar Village, LetPaDaungTaung Area, Salingyi Tsp
2 week agoProtest against inhuman dictatorship by residents from Pakkou Township
2 week agoAnti-coup strike was held by Mandalay Aung Pin Le Main Strike on July 14
2 week agoMIED attack on oil tanker took place in Kunduz yesterday Khurasan took responsibility. Clashes also reported around city
2 week agoVIDEO from this afternoon from the market area in Spin Boldak, Kandahar. TB spox also shared this vid
United Nations Mission in Afghanistan: We call on the parties to declare a ceasefire on Eid al-Adha to advance the peace process
2 week agoAn employee of Russia's Olympic team tested positive for coronavirus in Japan
2 week agoVIDEO circulating on Pakistani social media shows a small Taliban flag raised on the Pakistani side apparently by some pro-Taliban Afghan refugees
China begins military flights from disputed South China Sea bases
Jammu & Kashmir Police arrested two terror associates linked with Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) & recovered incriminating materials LeT posters, 30 rounds of AK-47 & 7 rounds of Chinese pistol, during checking at Railway Bridge, Mohanpora in Budgam: Police
Earthquake of magnitude 4.6 - 97 km SW of Bengkulu, Indonesia
Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah director said the hospital can now keep a total of 150 bodies of Covid-19 victims in these 'temporary morgues' at any one time
Singapore reports 56 new locally transmitted #COVID19 cases, including 41 linked to the KTV cluster; 6 infections are unlinked
2 week agoUSN Boeing P-8A Poseidon AE686C tracking near Taiwan
President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the travel restrictions for all travelers coming from Indonesia or those with travel history to Indonesia within the last fourteen (14) days preceding arrival in the Philippines.
Fishermen found the burned-out ship Lamor 7500 in the Sea of Okhotsk, near Cape Kupriyanovskiy. The boat drifted 170 meters from the shore. There were two people on the ship - employees of the Shantar Reserve. One of them died and the other went missing
2 week agoExplosion in Pakistan: at least 10 dead 10 people died, 39 injured as a result an explosion targeted a bus carrying Chinese engineers, Pakistani soldiers in Pakistan. The bus was carrying over 30 Chinese engineers to the site of Dasu dam project in Upper Kohistan
At least 9 killed in bus blast in NW Pakistan
China calls on Pakistan to hold accountable those responsible for bus explosion that killed 6 Chinese
China urges 'severe punishment' for Pakistan bus blast attackers
2 week agoSpin Boldak district 4KMs away lies the Weash crossing - also an important trade crossing captured by the Taliban last night. Fighting against home of former police chief of Kandahar General Raziq and fighting against Boldak district police HQ on going
3 week agoHezb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in his recent video clip addressed the Taliban fighters telling them to shun violence since it only kills Afghans. "We have fought for Islam before you born," Hekmatyar told Taliban
Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 153 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
Earthquake of magnitude 4.9 - 146 km ESE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
3 week agoUSA: Photos showing the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN70) navigating Pacific waters as part of ongoing operations in the US 3rd Fleet, accompanied by: USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) USS Higgins (DDG -76) USS O'Kane (DDG-77) USS Stockdale (DDG-106)
3 week agoMultiple employees of Crytek, based in Frankfurt, are afraid, that if their company is sold to China, their software will be used for military purpose by the PLA or China will use its ownership of the company to spy on western militaries and arms manufacturers, using CryEngine
3 week agoDestroyed vehicles near Mirwais earlier today Kandahar
3 week agoTaliban in Gund Shahra area, Guzara district. Fighting and air strikes were reported earlier today Herat via @AkmalHaqqani2 Afghanistan
3 week agoClashes in vicinity of Spin Boldak tonight Kandahar
AFP has received P5 million of financial assistance from two congressmen and a group of businessmen for the victims of the C-130 military plane crash in Patikul, Sulu over a week ago
3 week agoTaliban artillery strikes near Kandahar yesterday Afghanistan
4 Olympic staff from U.S., Britain arrested over alleged cocaine use #TokyoOlympics2021
Ben Wallace speaking about the approach of different countries on China: "I am not sure I have a handle on anyone's China policy"
"China's scale, China's power, its speed of its military development." per Britain's @BWallaceMP "It's not good pretending we can send China backwards"
Russia, & China, "They proliferate & use proxies" like the Wagner Group, per @BWallaceMP
Kolkata, WB: Jadavpur Police registered a case against unknown accused persons regarding the incident of attack on Atif Rasheed, Vice Chairman National Commission Of Minorities, and other members of NHRC-appointed team while visiting Jadavpur to investigate the post-poll violence
3 week agoUnited Arab Emirates Armed Forces conducted flight operations with expeditionary sea base USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3) in the Arabian Gulf, July 11
3 week agoNew US advisory "highlights the heightened risks for businesses with supply chain and investment links to Xinjiang given the entities complicit in forced labor and other human rights abuses there and throughout China," according to @SecBlinken
Chinese President XiJinping held a phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday
Police have arrested 552 people for defying COVID19 lockdown rules in Dhaka today
3 week agoTaiwan Ministry of National Defense: 2 PLA aircrafts (Y-8 EW and Y-8 RECCE) entered Taiwan's southwest ADIZ in the morning of July 13, 2021
Earthquake of magnitude 4.8 - 215 km WNW of Tual, Indonesia
3 week agoLocal sources in Logar province say Taliban fighters set up a checkpoint on the Kabul-Logar highway to abduct Zohra Jalal, a member of the Khost provincial council, with her two bodyguards before noon today
Chhattisgarh: A Naxal killed in encounter with security forces in Bijapur; a CRPF jawan and a local sustained bullet injuries; search operation underway, says Bastar IG P Sundarraj
3 week agoOfficials in Kandahar say air strike targeted a group of Taliban fighters who wanted to carry a complex attack against PD7, Kandahar city. Heavy fighting in several parts of Kandahar city
Kurdish Baz News reports that smoke columns are rising from the American base in Omar Oil Field, Deir ez Zor
U.S. ambassador in Kabul: The remaining American forces after the withdrawal are able to protect themselves
3 week agoThailand recorded 8,685 new COVID19 cases today, including a new cluster of 312 at a super market in Bang Bua Thong district of Nonthaburi province. There were also 56 more deaths
3 week agoActivists from the pro-democracy League of Social Democrats gathered outside the China Liaison Office on Tuesday, holding up images of political prisoners. Tuesday marked four years since the death of Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo. Photo: LSD
3 week agoTaliban fighters execute 22 Afghan commandos as they try to surrender on June 16 in the town of Dawlat Abad in Faryab province, close to the border with Turkmenistan
3 week agoFour civilians were killed and five more were wounded in an explosion on Maiwand Street in Kabul's District 1 around 2:50 pm this afternoon, police said
3 week agoIndonesia posts another record high for daily COVID cases - 47,899. Since lockdown in Java and Bali began on July 3, the 7-day daily average is up 66pc to 38,644. It was always going to take time to flatten the curve, but signs are not good. (Graph doesn't include today's figure)
Soldiers fired into the air to disperse crowds queuing for Oxygen in Yangon
3 week agoAs a result of security forces' airstrikes in Kanjak Saraysang village of Taloqan city, Maulavi Nooruddin, son of Abdul Rahim, Taliban's shadow district chief for Takhar province,
3 week agoThe National Directorate of Security (NDS) in Takhar province has said that Maulvi Nooruddin, the Taliban's nominee for governor of Takhar province, was wounded in an airstrike in Sarai Sang village of Kanjak, Taloqan city.
3 week agoHeavy rainstorm has lashed the Chinese capital Beijing since 6 p.m. Sunday with precipitation up to 116.4 mm, according to the municipal flood control department. From 6 p.m. Sunday to 9 a.m. Monday, Beijing registered average rainfall of 65.9 mm
