U.S., Japanese and Philippine coast guard ships staged law enforcement drills in waters near the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday as Washington presses efforts to reinforce alliances in Asia amid an increasingly tense rivalry with China. Witnessed by journalists onboard a Philippine coast guard patrol boat, the BRP Cabra, the drills focused on a […]
US, Japanese, Philippine coast guard ships hold drills near South China Sea as tensions increase with China
August 10, 2023 by
Masters winner Scottie Scheffler hopeful golfers will table tensions for Champions Dinner as menu is unveiled
April 18, 2023 by
The menu for the Champions Dinner held in honor of the reigning Masters Tournament winner Scottie Scheffler has been released, and for Scheffler, he expects no hiccups when the PGA Tour members take their seats across their former competitors now playing in the LIV Golf circuit. The menu for the traditional dinner was released Wednesday […]
US–Taiwan Meeting No Excuse for China Tensions: Secretary of State Blinken
April 6, 2023 by
For the first time ever, America’s third-highest-ranking official is meeting with Taiwan’s president on U.S. soil. Beijing is lashing out, staging a warship in waters off Taiwan. How will it impact U.S.-China relations? Topics in this episode: U.S.-Taiwan Meeting No Excuse for China Tensions: Sec. of State Blinken Taiwan Residents Unfazed by China Threats It’s
Philippines Grants U.S. More Access to Military Bases as China Tensions Mount
March 10, 2023 by
Philippine Defense Secretary Carlito Galvez announced on Thursday that American forces would be granted more extensive access to Philippine military bases, adding four sites to the five already available to the United States for training, equipment storage, and infrastructure upgrades. Galvez made the announcement in a joint press conference with visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd
Russia claims to have ended ethnic tensions in Nagorno-Karabakh, urges restraint
March 7, 2023 by
Russia said Monday that its forces helped end a deadly weekend clash between Azerbaijani soldiers and the police of Nagorno-Karabakh, urging all parties to show restraint. Nagorno-Karabakh lies within Azerbaijan but has been under the control of ethnic Armenian forces backed by Armenia since a separatist war there ended in 1994. In 2020, Azerbaijani troops […]
Russia To Give Nearly Two Dozen British Diplomats The Boot As Tensions Over Poisoning Of Ex-Spy Skyrocket.
March 17, 2018 by
Russia announced plans Saturday to expel 23 British diplomats and close a local consulate in retaliation after London decided to expel Russian diplomats as punishment for Moscow’s alleged involvement in the poisoning of an ex-spy. “23 diplomatic personnel from the British Embassy in Moscow have been declared persona non grata,” the Russian foreign ministry revealed, […]
North Korea tensions have Hawaii pols revisiting emergency attack plans.
April 17, 2017 by
As tensions with North Korea mount, Hawaii lawmakers anxiously are dusting off the state’s emergency plans in preparation for the possibility – however remote – of an attack on the islands. The plans were last revisited in the 1980s. But the Hawaii House Public Safety Committee on Thursday formally called for the state’s defense agency […]
Tillerson says US-Russia ties at ‘low point,’ calls for easing tensions after Putin meeting.
April 13, 2017 by
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held a hastily arranged meeting in Moscow late Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he worked to ease tensions over Syria and other global crises – even as he and President Trump, from afar, continued to pressure Putin over his alliance with Bashar Assad. Tillerson, speaking frankly during a […]
Russia Orders All Officials To Fly Home Any Relatives Living Abroad, As Tensions Mount Over The Prospect Of A Global War
October 13, 2016 by
Russia is ordering all of its officials to fly home any relatives living abroad amid heightened tensions over the prospect of global war, it has been claimed. Politicians and high-ranking figures are said to have received a warning from president Vladimir Putin to bring their loved-ones home to the ‘Motherland’, according to local media. It […]
Tensions Rising in Germany
September 17, 2016 by
Citizens clash with Syrian refugees–and each other. Immigrants protest under heavy rain against the realization of their deportation from the German Goverment in the Center of Munich on September 16, 2016. Germany is blowing up again over migration. The Saxon town of Bautzen has, like dozens of similar places across Germany, a barracks for some […]
BREAKING NEWS: Saudi Jets ‘Bomb Iranian Embassy In Yemen’ As Tensions Mount Following Riyadh’s Execution Of Prominent Shiite Cleric
January 7, 2016 by
Warplanes struck embassy during air raid on Wednesday, Iran has claimed Tehran’s foreign ministry spokesman described it as a ‘deliberate action’ The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen is to launch an investigation Comes as car bomb kills 65 at police training centre in Libyan town, Zliten Published: 06:47 EST, 7 January 2016 | Updated: 07:14 […]
Leftist media exploits Charleston shooting to incite racial tensions while ignoring actual facts
June 24, 2015 by
Another mass shooting has occurred, but this one appears to have a racial element to it. Yet the manner in which it is being reported by the mainstream press is full of hypocrisy. On Thursday, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, who is white, walked into the historically black AME Church in Charleston, S.C., and shot and killed […]