Former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang Dies Of Heart Attack
Former Chinese premier Li Keqiang, a reform-minded bureaucrat once tipped as the country’s future leader only to be eclipsed by President Xi Jinping, died Friday. He was 68. He had a heart attack on Thursday and passed away in Shanghai just after midnight, state-run news agency Xinhua said. During his 10-year tenure as premier under Xi, Li cultivated an image as...
Gaza: Deadlock Deepens As Security Council Rejects Resolutions By U.S, Russia
China and Russia on Wednesday vetoed a draft resolution sponsored by the United States while a second Russian-backed resolution failed to secure sufficient votes. The development has deepened the Security Council’s deadlock over any unified response to address the crisis in Gaza and Israel. The U.S.-led draft resolution failed to pass owing to a negative vote by permanent Security Council members,...
Sri Lanka Confirms Chinese Research Ship Headed To Its Shores
Sri Lanka confirmed Wednesday the expected arrival of a Chinese research ship, following a visit by a spacecraft-tracking vessel last year that raised security concerns from neighbouring India. New Delhi is suspicious of China’s increasing presence in the Indian Ocean and its influence in Sri Lanka, which is strategically placed halfway along key east-west international shipping routes. A foreign ministry spokesman...
US Rejects Call For Ceasefire By Middle East, Says It’ll Allow Hamas To Rest
The United States warned Monday that any Gaza ceasefire by Israel would benefit Hamas, as the European Union considers a call for a humanitarian pause. A ceasefire would “give Hamas the ability to rest, to refit and to get ready to continue launching terrorist attacks against Israel,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters. “You can understand perfectly clearly why that’s...
Widow Of Killed Pakistani Journalist Sues Kenya Police
A widow of a Pakistani journalist who was shot dead by police in Kenya after he fled arrest in his home country filed a lawsuit against Kenyan police on Monday, her lawyer said. Arshad Sharif, a strident critic of Pakistan’s powerful military establishment and supporter of former premier Imran Khan, died when Kenyan police opened fire on his car at...
Iran Warns Israel To Stop War In Gaza Or Region Will Go Out Of Control
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned Israel that the Middle East could spiral out of control if it does not stop strikes on Gaza. He said the US was also "to blame" for providing military support to Israel. Hours later, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu warned troops his people were in a battle for their lives and said the war against...
Russia Offers Food Aid To Gaza As Israel-Hamas Conflict Intensifies
Russia has announced that it will deliver 27 tons of humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict in the region. A statement by Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry on Telegram made this known early Thursday morning, according to Anadolu Agency. “The assistance was organized at the direction of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin...
Egypt Resumes Supply Of Water To Southern Gaza
Israel resumed the water supply to southern Gaza, Energy Minister Israel Katz said Sunday, as one million people have evacuated the north of the Strip to escape a massive air assault. “This will push the civilian population to the southern (part of the) Strip,” Katz said in a statement, a week after Israel had stopped supplying water to the entire...
Thousands Flee North Gaza After Israel Evacuation Warning
Thousands of Palestinians fled to southern Gaza in search of refuge Friday after Israel warned them to evacuate before an expected ground offensive against Hamas in retaliation for the deadliest attack in Israel’s history. The call to get out came six days after Hamas gunmen burst through the heavily militarised border around the Gaza Strip and killed more than 1,300...
Australian Cheng Lei Freed From China Detention
Journalist Cheng Lei has returned home to Australia after more than three years of detention in China. "She was met at the airport by the Foreign Minister Penny Wong," Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, announcing her release. Cheng Lei, 48, was working as a business reporter for China's state-run English-language TV station CGTN when she was arrested on 13 August...
