Bloomberg China’s military sent its biggest daily sortie of bombers into the Taiwan Strait in at least two years, in apparent show of displeasure over a visit by a key member of Japan’s ruling party. The 18 H-6 strategic bombers — the most in Bloomberg-compiled data going back to September 2020 — were part of a sortie of 29 ...

  Bloomberg Indian and Chinese troops clashed in the northeast Indian border state of Arunachal Pradesh, India’s Defense Minister Rajnath Singh told parliament, officially confirming the first such encounter between the neighbours in about two years. Troops from both sides “exchanged blows” after hundreds of Chinese soldiers transgressed into India’s side of the boundary, Singh said. India has raised the ...

  Bloomberg Supporters of President Jair Bolsonaro clashed with police in Brazil’s capital after an indigenous leader who sought to stop the certification of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was arrested by determination of a top court justice. TV footage showed cars and buses on fire in Brasilia, and police trying to disperse protesters in different parts of the city ...