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19/05/2023

The last former British prime minister to visit Taiwan was Ms. Truss’s political idol, Margaret Thatcher, in 1992. Taiwan was willing to look past contention in Britain over Ms. Truss, said Chen Fang-yu, an assistant politics professor at Soochow University in Taipei. “Taiwan really needs more of this kind of attention from every country, because only if more people visit Taiwan and more speak up for Taiwan, will the Chinese Communist Party realize that many people are paying attention to Taiwan, and so they should not act rashly,” he said in an interview....

19/05/2023

Comment on this storyComment You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. The leaders summit of Group of Seven nations in Japan taking place at the end of this week has one issue at the top of its agenda: Ukraine....

19/05/2023

The elite Ukrainian troops have destroyed a Russian Buk surface-to-air missile system near Popasna, Donetsk region. The Come Back Alive Foundation released footage, which appears to have been shot from a drone, showing what appears to be Buk-M1 (SA-11 Gadfly) mobile medium-range surface-to-air missile system being targeted and destroyed. “HIMARS strike destroyed an enemy air defense system in occupied Popasna. The aerial reconnaissance of the 45th separate artillery brigade adjusted the fire of our rocket launchers,” the Foundation message added....

18/05/2023

A little girl from Panama born with heart problems has died in Border Patrol custody, according to a United States government statement on Thursday, marking the second death in two weeks of a child in custody from Latin America. The 8-year-old girl and her family were being held in Harlingen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, one of the busiest corridors for border crossings....

18/05/2023

Gen. Gary Prado Salmón, who as a Bolivian Army captain led the operation that captured the Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara, a critical ally of Fidel Castro’s in the Cuban revolution, in 1967, died on May 6 in a hospital in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. He was 84. His son Gary Prado Arauz announced the death on Facebook but did not give a cause....

18/05/2023

Explosions rocked Kyiv early Thursday, as Russia continued a wave of strikes on the Ukrainian capital. An air raid alert remained in place, and residents were urged to stay in shelters. Debris from missiles fell on the city, but no casualties were reported. The Patriot air-defense system damaged in Ukraine on Tuesday by a Russian strike has been fixed and is operational, Deputy Pentagon Spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said Thursday....

Explosions rocked Kyiv early Thursday, as Russia continued a wave of strikes on the Ukrainian capital. An air raid alert remained in place, and residents were urged to stay in shelters. Debris from…

18/05/2023

The Australian Government has awarded the multi-million dollar contract to supply additional Bushmaster protected mobility vehicles. According to a press release from the Department of Defense, Thales Australia was awarded a $160 million contract to supply 78 Bushmaster vehicles for the Australian Defense Force. Bushmasters will continue to be manufactured in Bendigo, Victoria, with the first delivery expected in 2024....

18/05/2023

London, England – Tunisia’s intensifying crackdown on opposition leaders and critics imperils society and risks the return of autocracy, years after demonstrations in the North African country were credited with setting off a revolutionary chain reaction across the region, a group of experts, activists and relatives of those detained have warned. On Monday, Rached Ghannouchi, the Ennahdha president who was arrested in April, was jailed in absentia after being found guilty on charges of incitement....

18/05/2023

British and Dutch plans to help Ukraine obtain F-16 fighter jets have put the United States and some of its closest European allies at odds — yet again — over what weapons the West should send Kyiv to defend against Russia’s invasion. Even if the Biden administration overcomes its long-held reluctance to give Ukraine the American-made planes, the F-16 would not be used in combat for months at least, officials and military analysts say....

British and Dutch plans to help Ukraine obtain F-16 fighter jets have put the United States and some of its closest European allies at odds — yet again — over what weapons the West should send Kyiv…

18/05/2023

Comment on this storyComment Dozens of goats leap from the bed of a wood-paneled truck into the small forest. The exit might seem jumbled, but they’ve trained for this. These ungulates are firefighters, members of a special task force assembled to help curb the deadly wildfires now scorching mountainous central Chile. Their superpower: Eating. Uncomplainingly and just about unceasingly, the goats reduce the vegetation that dries up in the summer, reducing the amount of fuel that’s available for the flames....