Friday marked the 95th anniversary of the September 18 Incident, the start of China’s 14-year war of resistance against Japanese aggression. On Sept. 18, 1931, Japanese troops blew up a section of railway near Shenyang under their control and accused Chinese troops of sabotage, using this as a pretext forContinue Reading
The UN Security Council has failed to adopt a US-drafted resolution that would have extended the mandate of a panel of experts monitoring sanctions on Iran, after China and Russia vetoed the measure. The draft received 11 votes in favor, with China and Russia voting against and two membersContinue Reading
Xinhua South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Friday firmly ruled out any troop deployment to engage in war in the Strait of Hormuz. “There will be no deployment that engages or intervenes in the war,” Lee said during a press conference. Lee said South Korea consistently maintained theContinue Reading
Xinhua Uganda on Thursday started construction of a 320-million-liter petroleum storage terminal in the central district of Mpigi, as the country seeks to strengthen fuel security and supplies to domestic and regional markets. Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni presided over the groundbreaking ceremony for the over-300-mln-USD Kampala Storage Terminal, whichContinue Reading
Katsina State Governor, Malam Dikko Umaru Radda, has received the leadership of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and MTN Nigeria and approved the constitution of a Joint Implementation Committee to drive the State’s digital infrastructure and connectivity agenda. The Governor gave the approval when he received the Executive ViceContinue Reading
Xinhua The European Commission on Thursday proposed new EU-wide restrictions on children’s access to social media, including a ban for those under 13 and a minimum age of 15 for minors to open their own accounts. Under the proposed EU KIDS Act, children under 13 would be barred fromContinue Reading
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke by phone on Thursday with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on high-level interactions between the two countries. During the talks, Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that China-U.S. relations have forContinue Reading
At least 156 people, including 120 children, were killed in February’s strike on the primary school in Minab UN human rights experts say there are reasonable grounds to believe the US committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran that killed at least 177 civilians. A new report byContinue Reading
Elections for deputies to the ninth convocation of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, have kicked off across Russia, with the first polling stations opening in the country’s easternmost regions. Polling stations in Kamchatka Krai and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug opened at 8 a.m. local time Friday (2000Continue Reading
By our Correspondent Industries and commercial enterprises within the Idu industrial zone of Abuja are set to enjoy uninterrupted electricity in the nearest future following the ground-breaking ceremony for a 50-megawatt electrification project. The initiative is a collaborative venture between Welbeck Electricity Distribution Limited, the Abuja Electricity Distribution CompanyContinue Reading
