TAIPEI, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Taiwan's defence ministry reported a spike in Chinese military activity around the island on Wednesday, including 53 military aircraft, with Taiwan on high alert over Beijing's latest pressure campaign. China's military has yet to comment and has not confirmed it is carrying out any military exercises. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, had been expected to launch drills to express its anger at President Lai Ching-te's tour of the...

Following the anti-government rebels’ rapid advance that made President Bashar al-Assad depart from Syria, Austria has enacted significant changes to its asylum policies concerning Syrian nationals. Visegrád24 posted that Austria’s caretaker government is planning to halt the processing of current Syrian asylum applications and to reassess previously granted asylum statuses. Additionally, family reunification programmes for Syrian refugees have been suspended.

The collapse of the Assad regime has prompted a punishing military response from Israel, which has launched airstrikes at military targets across Syria and deployed ground troops both into and beyond a demilitarized buffer zone for the first time in 50 years. The Israeli military on Tuesday said it had carried out about 480 strikes across the country over the past two days, hitting most of Syria’s strategic weapon stockpiles, while Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Israeli navy had...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Tuesday plans to list monarch butterflies as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, marking a critical step in preserving the pollinators. What Are Wildlife Officials Saying? This decision follows years of advocacy by environmental groups alarmed by the butterfly's dwindling numbers, largely attributed to climate change and habitat loss. Wildlife officials plan to add the monarchs, known for their distinctive orange-and-...

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Tuesday that the federal government has been weaponized to spy on Americans' bank accounts and financial transactions.  "We know in 2023 [that] 14,000 different individuals in the government [about] three million times in one year......14,000 individuals did over three million searches of this database of information on Americans banking habits," Jordan said on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. 

The fallout from South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief imposition of martial law continues amid reports of his office being raided and his former defense minister attempting suicide.  Police searched the president’s office on Wednesday as part of an investigation into his six-hour martial law declaration last week, which has sparked a massive political turmoil in the country, according to a report from local news agency Yonhap. 

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On Monday, the Bank of England announced it will hide the identities of any pension funds, insurers or hedge funds bailed to avoid the stigma.  This new policy of secrecy to protect […]

from SGT Report: As the MAGA red wave sweeps over the United States, similar patriotic movements in other NATO nations are being crushed by propaganda and blatant election rigging as seen in the case of Romania’s Calin Georgescu. The endless sea of lies has destroyed the mainstream CIA mockingbird media in the USA and there’s […]