Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a stark warning to the Syrian government on Wednesday, threatening to escalate military action in southern Syria if Damascus continues operations in Druze-majority areas. “The pace of strikes in Syria will increase if our message isn’t understood,” Katz said in remarks carried by Israeli media. “Southern Syria will become […]
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#Chinese #military #holds #joint #drills #East #China #Sea #MSDFs #Taiwan #Strait #transitChina, PLA, East China Sea, Taiwan, defense, Defense Ministry, SDF, CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS, TAIWAN-JAPAN RELATIONS">Chinese military holds joint drills in East China Sea after MSDF’s Taiwan Strait transit
The Chinese military sent naval and air forces for “joint combat readiness patrols” in the waters and airspace of the East China Sea on Saturday, a day after a Japanese warship transited the Taiwan Strait.
The exercises were “a routine arrangement organized in accordance with the annual plan, aiming at testing the joint operations capabilities,” Senior Col. Xu Chenghua, a spokesperson for the Chinese military’s Eastern Theater Command, said in a statement.
Xu said the Eastern Theater Command “will routinely organize relevant military operations based on the need of the security situation, and safeguard state sovereignty and security as well as regional peace and stability.”
#Kyiv #gunman #kills #takes #hostages #shot #dead #Ukraine #policeUkrainian, Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky, supermarket, Holosiivskyi district, Vitali Klitschko, Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko">Kyiv gunman kills 6, takes hostages before being shot dead by Ukraine police
A gunman who killed at least six people in the streets of Kyiv on Saturday before taking hostages and barricading himself in a nearby supermarket has been shot dead by police, Ukrainian officials said.
The head of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, Ihor Klymenko, said in a statement on social media that special tactical police units stormed the store after attempts to contact the gunman with a negotiator failed.
The attacker was killed while resisting arrest, he said.
Speaking to reporters at the scene, Klymenko said that the government had killed four bystanders while on the street, before entering the supermarket and killing a fifth person.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that a sixth victim, a young woman, had died from her injuries in the hospital.
Special forces officers evacuate a hostage at the site of a shooting incident, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Saturday. Photo: Reuters
Klymenko said that police negotiators spoke with the attacker for roughly 40 minutes before storming the building.
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