BEIJING, July 6, (APP/AFP) – China’s newest military transport plane entered service Wednesday, state media said, extending Beijing’s ability to deploy its fighting forces around the world as it pursues a greater global role. The announcement comes with tensions mounting over territorial disputes between Beijing and its neighbours in the East and South China seas. […]
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China extends military wings with new transport plane
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Iraq war casts long shadow over UK foreign policy
LONDON, July 6, (APP/AFP) – Britain’s war in Iraq, to be examined in a major report due out Wednesday, instilled a deep sense of distrust towards military intervention that still casts a shadow over foreign policy, analysts say. The decision to join the US-led invasion in 2003 on the basis of flawed intelligence, the occupation […]
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Britain ‘will remain in the EU’: Austrian minister
FRANKFURT, July 5, (APP/AFP) – Britain will not quit the European Union despite voting to do so in a June 23 referendum, Austria’s finance minister Hans Joerg Schelling said in an interview published on Tuesday. “In five years there will still be 28 member states,” Schelling told German business daily Handelsblatt. European leaders were discussing […]
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17 more charged over Istanbul airport attack
ISTANBUL, July 5, (APP/AFP) – Seventeen people including 11 Russians have been charged over the Istanbul airport attack, Dogan news agency reported Tuesday, bringing to 30 the total number charged over the suicide assault. The latest suspects , who also include six Turks, were charged with “belonging to an armed terrorist group”. Ankara says the […]
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US drone strike kills three Qaeda suspects in Yemen
ADEN, July 5, (APP/AFP) – A US drone attack killed three Al-Qaeda suspects in Yemen’s Shabwa on Monday, the second such strike in the southern province in days, a security official said. The suspected militants were travelling in the Al-Musaina region of Shabwa when their vehicle was hit, the official said. The car was burned […]
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COAS condemns terror attacks on Saudi Arabia
RAWALPINDI, July 05 (APP): Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has condemned the terror attacks on Saudi Arabia. COAS called Saudi Defence Minster Prince Muhammad bin Salman and condemned terrorists’ attacks in Saudi Arabia, an ISPR news release issued here on early Tuesday stated. COAS sympathized with affected families of attack victims and said, […]