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Month: August 2023

Taiwan will ‘never back down’ to China threats, island’s presidential hopeful says during US transit

By Eric Cheung and Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — Taiwan will never back down in the face of growing threats from China, the island’s vice president and presidential hopeful said Sunday during a transit through the United States, defying Beijing’s condemnation of his trip. William Lai, a front-runner in Taiwan’s presidential race in January, made

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Russia targets Ukrainian city of Odesa again but Kyiv says it shot down all the missiles and drones

By SUSIE BLANN Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials say Russia launched three waves of nighttime air attacks against the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa. The Ukrainian air force said Monday it intercepted all 15 incoming Shahed drones and eight Kalibr missiles. An Odesa official says falling debris from the interceptions damaged the dormitory

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Heavy rains trigger floods and landslides in India’s Himalayan region, leaving at least 22 dead

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian officials say heavy monsoon rains have triggered floods and landslides in the country’s Himalayan region, leaving at least 22 people dead and many others trapped. A cloudburst in mountainous Himachal Pradesh state’s Solan district on Sunday night killed nine people, and more bodies were pulled out from under mud and

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Lawyers and witnesses say Ethiopian police have arrested hundreds during state of emergency

By CARA ANNA Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Lawyers and witnesses say authorities in Ethiopia are carrying out mass arrests of hundreds, even thousands, of people in the capital after deadly unrest in the country’s Amhara region. Ethiopia’s Cabinet declared a state of emergency earlier this month in Amhara after local militia fighters known

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Thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance found buried in ground at Cambodian school

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian authorities have temporarily closed a high school where thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance from the country’s nearly three decades of civil war have been unearthed. A provincial official told The Associated Press by phone Monday that more than 1,000 students study at the

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