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US demands to know what allies would do in event of war over Taiwan Financial Times China-Taiwan Weekly Update, July 11, 2025 Institute for the Study of War Getting Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping The Cipher Brief The 8-point buzzsaw facing any invasion of Taiwan Responsible Statecraft US demands clarity from allies on their role in potential war … Read more
Giuseppe Palermo has been wanted under an Interpol red notice, which has called for his arrest in 196 countries. Colombian authorities have captured an alleged leader of the Italian ‘Ndrangheta mafia in Latin America who is accused of overseeing cocaine shipments and running illegal trafficking routes to Europe. Police on Friday identified the suspect as … Read more
Preliminary investigation does not apportion blame for Boeing 787 crash that killed 260 people in June. Fuel control switches to the engines of an Air India flight that crashed shortly after takeoff last month were moved from the “run” to the “cutoff” position moments before impact, according to a preliminary report. The report, issued by … Read more
The wife of Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said on Friday she was “at the complete disposal” of Italian judicial authorities following the death of a 24-year-old woman who was struck by a vehicle in Sardinia. Local media reports said Vivian Spohr was at the wheel of an SUV that was in collision with a pedestrian … Read more
Separatist Baloch fighters have in past claimed responsibility for attacks in the southwestern Balochistan province. Nine bus passengers have been killed after gunmen kidnapped them in Pakistan’s restive southwestern Balochistan province, officials have said. The passengers were taken from several buses on Thursday evening, the provincial government spokesman, Shahid Rind, said on Friday. The bus … Read more
TOKYO (AP) — Japan has demanded China stop flying its fighter jets abnormally close to Japanese intelligence-gathering aircraft, which it said was happening repeatedly and could cause a collision. Japan’s Defense Ministry said a Chinese JH-7 fighter-bomber flew as close to 30 meters (98 feet) to a YS-11EB electronic-intelligence aircraft of the Japan Air Self-Defense … Read more
Ovidio Guzman Lopez plans to change his not guilty plea during a hearing after arrest in 2023. A son of the infamous Mexican drug cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is expected to plead guilty in a wide-ranging United States drug trafficking case at a court hearing in Chicago. Court records for Ovidio Guzman Lopez … Read more
Athens warns it will now arrest people entering Greece without authorisation from North Africa. Greece has suspended asylum applications for people arriving by sea for three months. That has come about after a large rise in the number of people crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to the Greek island of Crete. Athens wants to … Read more
CNN — An Ukrainian Security Service officer was shot dead in Kyiv on Thursday morning in what authorities told CNN was an apparent assassination. A spokesperson for the service told CNN that an SBU officer was killed in Kyiv and that investigation into the assassination was underway. The SBU did not release any further details … Read more
Rubio and Lavrov ‘confirmed their mutual desire to find peaceful solutions to conflicts’, Russian Foreign Ministry says. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio have held rare face-to-face talks on the sidelines of the ASEAN meeting in Malaysia, discussing the war in Ukraine, as well as developments in Iran and … Read more