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China holds fresh patrols around Taiwan to protest senator’s visit

Bloomberg China’s military said it held fresh patrols around Taiwan to “fight back” against another US congressional visit less than two weeks after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Taipei. The patrols and exercises conducted in the “sea and air space around Taiwan” on Monday provided a “resolute response and stern deterrence to US-Taiwan collusion,” Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Senior ...

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Putin vows to expand partnership with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un

Bloomberg Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to expand relations with North Korea, reaching out to his neighbor as the Kremlin scours the globe for weapons for its war in Ukraine. Putin sent a congratulatory message to North Korea for its Liberation Day holiday on Monday marking the end of Japan’s 1910-1945 colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula. Although Putin regularly ...

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Myanmar’s Suu Kyi gets six more years in prison

  Bloomberg Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to six more years in prison on Monday in a judgment that could further anger supporters of the 77-year-old Nobel peace prize laureate. A special court inside a prison compound in the capital Naypyidaw found her guilty of four corruption charges related to a charity named after her late ...

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