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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday sharply criticised China’s “increasingly dangerous and unlawful actions” in the dispute over territorial claims in the South China Sea.These had “injured people, harmed vessels from ASEAN nations and contradict commitments to peaceful resolution of disputes,” Blinken said in the Laotian capital Vientiane at the summit of heads of state and government of the organization’s members.Founded in 1967, ASEAN is a political and economic union of ten countries in South-East Asia, with a combined population of some 600 million people.Blinken was responding to repeated incidents in the disputed South China Sea, especially between…

By Ted Hesson, Nathan Frandino, Kristina CookeAURORA, Colorado (Reuters) -Donald Trump will hold an immigration-focused rally on Friday in Aurora, Colorado, a place the Republican presidential candidate has falsely depicted as a “war zone” overrun by Venezuelan gang members even as local officials have denied the allegations and Venezuelans have expressed fear they are being scapegoated.Former President Trump has used the 400,000-person Denver suburb as a symbol of what he calls “migrant crime” that he says is a result of high levels of illegal immigration under Democratic President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, his main election rival.While studies…

The latest national NBC News poll found Donald Trump trailing Kamala Harris by 21 points among women voters. The good news for Republicans is that the former president is well aware of the gender gap. The bad news for Republicans is that he doesn’t know what to do about it.In late August, for example, the GOP nominee targeted his Democratic rival in ugly and misogynistic ways, amplifying online content that suggested Harris traded sexual favors to advance her career. A New York Times report added at the time that the “repost was the second time in 10 days that the…

Vladimir Zelensky was “visibly upset” by Joe Biden’s decision to pull out of a key meeting of Kiev’s backers, Rodion Miroshnik has said A tour of European capitals by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is pointless because these nations have no intention of providing aid to Kiev without the US, senior Russian diplomat Rodion Miroshnik has claimed.Earlier this week, US President Joe Biden announced he would miss a planned meeting on Saturday between Western arms donors and Ukrainian officials at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany, in order to oversee the response to Hurricane Milton at home. Following Biden’s decision, the…

Amid ongoing heavy fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah in south Lebanon, the only external troops which have long been present on the ground are a group of UN peacekeeping troops. They are a mainly Irish contingency, called the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), and have remained near the Israel-Lebanon border since the 2006 war.The UN peacekeepers have been increasingly alarmed over the Israeli army setting up forward bases in areas near their operations, and this week the Israeli government alerted the UN troops they must move positions or risk coming under fire. That appears to have happened this…

Tim Walz ABC News interview Tim Walz sat down for an interview with ABC News’ Michael Strahan which aired on “Good Morning America” on Friday. Of course, the interview was a total dumpster fire. Michael Strahan asked Tim Walz about sky-high grocery prices. Grocery prices are up more than 20% since Biden and Harris took office in January 2021. Food prices rose… AGAIN in September and wages are down. “The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs rose 0.8% in September; the eggs index jumped 8.4%. The fruits and vegetables index increased 0.9% over the month, following a 0.2-percent decline…

The elevated area hosted by Hilton Grand Vacations returns for the Las Vegas Formula 1 race.F1 Las Vegas Premium hospitality at motorsports events as growing sector of sports business. For the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix set to take place in November, hotels along the street course pull out all the stops to lure fans. Hilton Grand Vacations provides an inside look at how they plan to do so. If “location, location, location” ever held true for entertainment options in Las Vegas, when Liberty Media Corp. entered into an agreement to bring a Formula 1 race to Sin City,…

By Dr. Mathew Maavak Unlike popular doomsday scenarios, this will be a war of flashpoints, chokepoints and High Value Targets (HVTs) There are signs aplenty that we may face a Limited World War III (L-WW3) in the very near-future. An L-WW3 scenario would involve a global conflict, but with restraints aimed at preventing total devastation, such as the use of nuclear weapons on a wide scale. Such a war might unfold through regional conflicts, cyberattacks, physical infrastructural sabotages, proxy wars, and intense economic and technological confrontations, rather than an all-out global military clash. They could all occur simultaneously or in…

By Emily Thompson The number of people in Haiti facing acute hunger has now reached half of the country’s population.  A gang-fueled social and political crisis in Haiti has swollen the ranks of those suffering severe hunger in recent months, with an estimated 5.4 million Haitians on the verge of starvation.   At least 6,000 residents of the Caribbean island nation now suffer catastrophe-levels of hunger, according to data released last month by global hunger watchdog Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).  The latest IPC report covers August 2024-February 2025 and was released by Haiti’s Coordination Nationale de la Sécurité…

Israel announced Thursday that it had foiled an ISIS plot to bomb a major shopping mall in Tel Aviv, and arrested five suspects, all Arab citizens of Israel. The Times of Israel reported: The five residents of Taybeh in central Israel formed a terror cell allied to ISIS, the fanatical terror group that originated in Iraq and Syria. The five were arrested after a month-long clandestine investigation in collaboration with the Lahav 433 serious crime unit and were set to face charges in the coming days. The cell’s leaders were named as Mahmoud Azam and Ibrahim Sheik Yousef. They recruited…