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Australia keeps Chinese company’s strategic port lease, defying cancellation

October 21, 2023

The Australian government announced Friday it has decided not to cancel a Chinese company’s 99-year lease on strategically important Darwin Port despite U.S. concerns that the foreign control could be used to spy on its military forces. The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet said it decided after an investigation...

UK PM Sunak’s Tories suffer huge losses at 2 by-elections

October 21, 2023

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s governing Conservative Party suffered huge losses in two by-elections on Friday, losing to the Opposition Labour Party, which overturned a sizeable Tory majority in the seats of Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth in England. While Sunak is touring the Middle East for crisis talks over the...

Middle East crisis stirs oil supply concerns, gas queues unlikely

October 21, 2023

Fifty years after the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the current crisis in the Middle East has the potential to disrupt global oil supplies and push prices higher. But don’t expect a repeat of the catastrophic price hikes and long lines at the gasoline pump, experts say. The Israel-Hamas war is...

How can we prevent satellite collisions in an overcrowded space?

October 21, 2023

Recent reports indicate a near-collision between an Australian satellite and a suspected Chinese military satellite. Additionally, the US government levied its first-ever space junk fine, imposing a $150,000 penalty on DISH Network, a satellite TV services provider, for its 21-year-old communications satellite, EchoStar-7. The fine was due to its failure...

Russia delivers 27 tonnes of food supplies for people in Gaza

October 21, 2023

Russia has delivered 27 tonnes of food supplies for civilians in the Gaza Strip set to be transferred from Egypt, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. Taking to X, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated, “27 tonnes of food supplies delivered by Russia’s EMERCOM and transferred to...

Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif reaches Dubai before heading to Islamabad today

October 21, 2023

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has arrived in the UAE to meet a select group of people a day ahead of his return to Pakistan without the fear of immediate arrest upon landing, according to a media report on Friday. Sharif, also the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo, landed...

Italian PM Meloni announces separation from her husband

October 21, 2023

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced Friday that she is separating from her partner and the father of her young daughter after nearly a decade together. In a statement posted on social media, Meloni said her relationship with Andrea Giambruno had ended. She said their paths had diverged “for some...

Protesters march to US Embassy in Indonesia over Israeli airstrikes

October 21, 2023

Protesters marched from several mosques to the heavily guarded U.S. Embassy in Indonesia’s capital Friday to denounce the staunch American support for Israel and demand an end to Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. Similar protests also took place in front of the United Nations mission, a few kilometers (miles)...

US issues caution for Americans travelling overseas amid Israel-Gaza war

October 21, 2023

Amid the Israel-Gaza war, increasing anti-US protests and potential terrorist attacks, the United States has issued a worldwide caution for Americans travelling overseas. The US State Department on Thursday issued a ‘worldwide caution’ alert as Middle East tensions soar. ‘’Due to increased tensions in various locations around the world, the...

Gaza Under Heavy Israeli Fire, Town Near Lebanon Evacuated

October 21, 2023

Israel bombarded Gaza early Friday, hitting areas in the south where Palestinians had been told to seek safety, and it began evacuating a sizable Israeli town in the north near the Lebanese border, the latest sign of a potential ground invasion of Gaza that could trigger regional turmoil. Palestinians in...

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