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Taiwan’s defense ministry said that starting on Friday morning, it had detected 26 Chinese military aircraft, including J-16 fighters, carrying out a “joint combat readiness patrol” with Chinese warships. Read more
Before reaching Mexico, Beryl wreaked havoc across several Caribbean islands. Read more
Starmer warned that any improvements would take time, and he would need to first rebuild faith in politics. Read more
Center-left Labour was on course to capture 410 of the 650 seats in parliament, an astonishing reversal of fortunes from five years ago when it suffered its worst performance since 1935. Read more
A source in the Israeli negotiating team said there was a real chance of achieving agreement after Hamas made a revised proposal on the terms of a deal. Read more
Beryl was expected to remain a dangerous hurricane as it passed just south of the Caymans, where forecasters said the storm surge could raise water levels by up to four feet. Read more
Chinese officials boarded and then seized a Taiwanese fishing boat operating near China’s coast close to a Taiwan-controlled island late Tuesday and took it to a Chinese port, Taiwan’s coast guard said, in a further escalation of tensions. Read more
Officials in Grenada were scrambling today to set up a field hospital after Hurricane Beryl ravaged nearly all the buildings on the nation’s island of Carriacou, including its lone hospital. Read more
The militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad in a post on the Telegram site described the attack as a “heroic operation.” Read more
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Ralph Gonsalves, prime minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, said in a radio interview that the country’s Union Island was “flattened” by Beryl. Read more
Japan began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in an attempt to frustrate counterfeiters. Read more
The first deployment of a Russian Kilo-class submarine close to the Irish Sea, happened around 18 months ago while the second occurrence took place more recently, the report added. Read more
“There are passengers with fractures and injuries to their arms, faces, and legs,” Stevan told Reuters TV in the Brazilian city of Natal, where flight UX045 from Madrid to the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo, made an unscheduled landing just after 2.30 a.m. local time. Read more
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also gave a nod to Ukraine’s aspirations to eventually join NATO, more than two years after Russia’s full-scale invasion. Read more
The stampede happened in a village in Hathras district, about 125 miles southeast of the national capital New Delhi. Read more
Beryl is expected to bring 4 to 12 inches of rain to Jamaica on Wednesday, possibly triggering flash floods, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Read more
Marcos shrugged off the Dutertes’ plans, telling reporters on Thursday, “It’s a free country. They’re allowed to do whatever they want.” Read more
Beryl jumped from a Category 1 to a Category 4 storm in less than 10 hours. Read more
The RN was seen winning around 34% of the vote, exit polls from Ipsos, Ifop, OpinionWay and Elabe showed, in a huge setback for President Emmanuel Macron who had called the snap election after his ticket was trounced by the RN in European Parliament elections earlier this month. Read more
Dozens of firefighters in full gear, backed by 23 water-carrying aircraft, fought with hoses to tame a fire in a sparsely populated area near the town of Keratea, some 22 miles south of Athens. Read more
