World

• Japan, Philippines beef up security partnership with China looming in background

  4-11-2023 World Washington Times - World 32

  Japan, in the latest shift away from its long-held post-World War II pacifist posture, is expanding its security ties with Southeast Asia.

• Myanmar's army chief vows counterattacks on armed groups that captured northeastern border towns

  4-11-2023 World Washington Times - World 46

  The leader of Myanmar 's army-installed government said the military will carry out counterattacks against a powerful alliance of ethnic armed...

• Senate Democrats join call for cease-fire in Gaza

  4-11-2023 World Washington Times - World 36

  A group of Democratic senators is calling for a "short-term cessation of hostilities" in Gaza.

• Serbian police arrest 7 people smugglers and find over 700 migrants in raids after a deadly shooting

  4-11-2023 World Washington Times - World 40

  Serbian police said Friday they made seven arrests on suspicion of smuggling people into Hungary as part of a days-long crackdown on irregular...

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• A Russian singer who condemned the war in Ukraine is back home. The Orthodox Church wants an apology

  4-11-2023 World Washington Times - World 45

  The Russian Orthodox Church on Friday called for an apology from Alla Pugacheva, the country's most renowned pop singer who returned home this...

• North Korea is closing some diplomatic missions in what may be a sign of its economic troubles

  3-11-2023 World Washington Times - World 52

  North Korea confirmed Friday that it's closing some of its diplomatic missions abroad, a move that rival South Korea suspects is likely the latest...

• King Charles III meets with religious leaders to promote peace on the final day of his Kenya visit

  3-11-2023 World Washington Times - World 26

  King Charles III met with religious leaders Friday to promote peace and security in Kenya during the last day of his four-day trip.

• Russia steps up its aerial barrage of Ukraine as Kyiv officials brace for attacks on infrastructure

  3-11-2023 World Washington Times - World 50

  Russia unleashed a wave of nighttime drone and missile attacks across 10 of Ukraine's 24 regions, Ukrainian authorities said Friday as they prepare...

• Blinken in Israel for urgent talks on war, will meet with Netanyahu

  3-11-2023 World Washington Times - World 48

  U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel for urgent talks with Israeli officials about their escalating war with Hamas in Gaza.

• No police investigation for husband of Norway's ex-prime minister over stock trades

  3-11-2023 World Washington Times - World 36

  The husband of Norway's former prime minister Erna Solberg will not face investigation over his stock trading during her two terms in office,...

• John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight' censored by UAE broadcaster over reference to Khashoggi killing

  3-11-2023 World Washington Times - World 74

  A Dubai-based television network broadcasting across the Mideast cut substantial portions of an episode of the satiric news program "Last Week...

• Blinken presses for pause in Gaza fighting on visit to Israel amid fears war could widen

  3-11-2023 World Washington Times - World 50

  U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Israel's prime minister on Friday to press American calls for a humanitarian pause in the fighting in...