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Earlier this week, Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman said that the southern part of Xizang is an inherent part of China's territory, and firmly opposes" the "so-called Arunachal Pradesh illegally established by India".

The refugee group's wooden boat and another vessel trying to help them both capsized on Wednesday, with survivors estimating around 150 Rohingya had been on board with dozens swept away.

The agreement stops short of a full mutual defence pact, which would bind one side to intervene if the other was attacked.

Local and international nongovernment groups, the United Nations and foreign governments have described the crackdown as a pretext to stifle political opposition ahead of the July 28 president elections.

KYIV: Russia fired 31 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv before dawn Thursday in the first attack on the Ukrainian capital in 44 days, officials said. Air defenses shot down all the incoming missiles, though 13 people including a child…

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will join the leaders at the start of their two-day meeting, in part to encourage some member countries to resume funding for the U.N. Palestinian relief agency, the main provider of aid in Gaza.

Relations between both sides of the Taiwan Strait have been frosty since Tsai's election in 2016, with China cutting off high-level communications due to her stance that the island was "already independent"

A shaky coalition of two dynastic parties took power in Islamabad following allegations of poll rigging which kept jailed former prime minister Imran Khan from power.

The election was also held in occupied Ukraine and voting took place two years into Moscow's offensive.

Chief among the risks is China's real estate sector -- now under unprecedented strain with some major developers on the verge of bankruptcy and falling prices dissuading consumers.

The former president said that he would "soon" issue a proposal on the number of weeks at which a ban should be implemented.

Kate was at the centre of an uproar last week after she admitted to editing an official portrait of her and her three children that was released by Buckingham Palace on Mothering Sunday.

It is one of a flurry of hacker groups that have flourished in wartime, countering Russia from behind their screens and operating in a legal grey area.

The statement comes after Antony Blinken said his country stands by its commitments to defend the Philippines against armed attack in the waterway.

The law threatens stringent penalties for a wide range of actions authorities call threats to national security, with the most severe, including treason and insurrection, punishable by life imprisonment.

Defense officials continue to warn that Ukraine remains heavily outgunned by Russia on the battlefield, and note persistent reports of Ukrainian troops rationing or running out of ammunition on the front lines.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting his South Korean counterpart on the sidelines of the third Summit for Democracy, for discussions now likely to be dominated by the allies' efforts to counter threats from the nuclear-armed…

Analysts said it was the first time Kim's daughter -- never named by Pyongyang, but identified as Ju Ae by South Korean intelligence -- had been described as such by the North.

Chinese Defence Ministry spokesman Sr Colonel Zhang Xiaogang made the remarks in response to India's enhancement of its military readiness through the Sela Tunnel in Arunachal Pradesh.

Videos posted on social media showed groups of people firing a barrage of fireworks at the building's facade.