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China Warns U.S. Over 'Provocative Behavior' WORLD NEWS August 27, 2020 5 China Warns U.S. Over Erdogan Warns of ‘Ruin’ as France Joins Greek Drills ‘Provocative Behavior’ STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -- Sweden is beefing up its military presence in the Bal- “Pacific Air Forces personnel will tic Sea amid concerns over increased Rus- continue to fly and operate any- sian and Western activity in the region and where international law allows, at heightened tensions in Belarus following a the time and tempo of our choos- disputed election. Sweden has been rearm- ing,” the U.S. military said in the ing in recent years after running down its statement. military following the end of the Cold War, The U-2 aircraft can fly at over focusing on the Baltic Sea area, where the 70,000 feet and carry out reconnais- strategically important island of Gotland sits within easy reach of the Russian exclave of sance activity from afar and would not Kaliningrad.Sweden’s military gave few de- necessarily have had to enter a no-fly tails of the buildup but said the security situ- zone. ation around its borders had deteriorated. While China did not say exactly Sweden’s armed forces said military activ- where the incident took place, it is ity in the Baltic Sea conducted by Russian currently carrying out drills in the Bo- as well as Western countries was on a scale hai Sea. the likes of which have not been seen since Other exercises are also happening the Cold War. “The focus of the high readi- in the Yellow Sea and South China A woman looks through binoculars as Greek and French vessels sail ness action is to reinforce naval surveillance in the Baltic Sea, at sea and from the air,” Sea. in formation during a joint military exercise in Mediterranean sea, in Jan Thornqvist, the Swedish Armed Forces’ U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is seen during its visit to “China demands the U.S. side im- this undated handout image obtained by Reuters on August 13, 2020. Commander of Joint Operations, said in a Hong Kong, China November 21, 2018. mediately stop this kind of provoca- statement. “The military presence in Gotland tive behavior and take actual steps to ISTANBUL (Dispatches) -- President But the discovery of hydrocarbon re- is also increased.” HONG KONG (Reuters) -- China no-fly zone in the northern military re- safeguard peace and stability in the Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday serves in the eastern Mediterranean has has lodged “stern representations” gion where live fire drills were taking region,” the ministry added. warned Turkey would make “no conces- further strained relations, with Turkey re- *** with the United States, accusing it of place, “seriously interfering in normal Relations between Washington and sions” in the eastern Mediterranean and jecting calls from the EU and Athens to BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo (Re- sending a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance exercise activities”. Beijing have worsened over every- told Greece to avoid taking steps that immediately stop energy exploration in the uters) – Takfiri militants killed at least 20 plane into a no-fly zone over Chi- This could easily have caused a mis- thing from trade and human rights to could lead to its “ruin”. region. people during attacks on three villages in His remarks came just hours after Ath- Turkey sent the Oruc Reis research vessel eastern Congo, the army and a local admin- nese live-fire military drills on Tues- understanding or misjudgment or an what the United States sees as aggres- istrator said.The Allied Democratic Forces day, further ratcheting up tensions “unexpected incident”, the ministry sive moves by China’s armed forces, ens said it would launch military exercises accompanied by warships to disputed wa- (ADF), a Ugandan armed group operating between Beijing and Washington. added. especially in the disputed South China Wednesday with France, Italy and Cyprus ters on August 10. Its activities were meant in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for China has long denounced U.S. sur- “It was an act of naked provocation, Sea and around Chinese-claimed Tai- in the region, where tensions between the to end on last Sunday but were extended to more than three decades, have killed more veillance activities, while the United and China is resolutely opposed to it, wan. two neighbors have escalated in recent Thursday. than 1,000 civilians since the start of 2019, States has complained of “unsafe” and have already lodged stern repre- In April 2001, an intercept of a U.S. weeks. Germany has led the charge in Europe according to United Nations figures.The army intercepts by Chinese aircraft. While sentations with the U.S. side.” spy plane by a Chinese fighter jet re- “In the Mediterranean, Aegean and Black to defuse tensions, dispatching its foreign and local authorities discovered the victims such missions happen regularly, for In a statement, the U.S. military sulted in a collision that killed the Sea, Turkey will get what is rightfully minister to Ankara and Athens on Tuesday of the latest massacre on Wednesday in the China to talk about them publicly is said a U-2 flight was conducted in the Chinese pilot and forced the American ours,” Erdogan said in the eastern province to resolve the issue through dialogue. villages of Mapasana, Mayitike and Sayuni, of Mus on the anniversary of the 1071 Bat- Both sides said they were open to dia- around 30km north-west of the city of Beni. unusual. Indo-Pacific region and it was “within plane to make an emergency landing The killings come just three days after a simi- China’s Defense Ministry said the the accepted international rules and at a base on the southern Chinese is- tle of Malazgirt where the Ottoman army logue after talks with the German minister, lar raid that left 13 dead. Late last year the U-2 flew without permission over a regulations governing aircraft flights.” land of Hainan. defeated the Byzantines. and there will be an informal EU foreign Congo army launched a large-scale operation “We don’t have our eye on someone else’s ministers’ meeting in Berlin on Thursday against the ADF, sparking a string of revenge territory, sovereignty and interests, but we and Friday. attacks against civilians that the U.N. says will make no concessions on that which is France’s Defense Minister Florence Parly may constitute war crimes.“The population is Terrorist in NZ Mosque Massacre ours,” he said in the televised speech. said on Twitter Wednesday that three Ra- distraught and on edge,” said Rosette Kabula, “We invite our counterparts to change fale jets, a frigate and a helicopter would deputy administrator for Beni territory. “It is their ways and avoid wrongs that will be take part for France in the exercises which a moment of mourning.” Waives Right to Speak the path to ruin,” Erdogan added in pointed get underway on Wednesday. *** is expected to become the first person in remarks to NATO ally Greece. Tensions are already high between MOSCOW (Reuters) -- The Kremlin said New Zealand imprisoned for life without “We want everyone to see Turkey is no France and Turkey over the conflict in on Wednesday Russia did not want the illness prospect of parole. longer a country whose patience, determi- Libya where both Paris and Ankara have of opposition politician Alexei Navalny to Shortly before waiving his right to speak, nation, means and courage will be tested. If accused the other of interference. damage ties with the West and that it was as Tarrant was face-to-face with Abdul Aziz, we say we will do something, we will do it, Meeting Cypriot counterpart Nicos Anas- keen as anyone else to find out what caused him to fall gravely ill.Germany, the United who was hailed a hero when he chased the and we will pay the price,” he said. tasiades in Paris last month, President Em- Greece and Turkey are already divided on manuel Macron denounced what he called States and other countries have called on gunman from the Linwood mosque. Russia to investigate the circumstances that “I saw the fear in his eyes when he was significant issues including migration and Turkey’s “violation” of the sovereignty of Byzantine heritage in Istanbul. Greece and Cyprus. led to Navalny collapsing on a plane last running for his life,” Aziz told the court. week after a German clinic said its initial “You know the face, the one who chased medical examination pointed to poisoning. you out,” he told Tarrant who sat a few But the Kremlin says it is too early to say that meters away, maintaining the same pas- for certain and that the medical examination sive demeanor he had shown throughout Kim Shown Chairing Meeting is inconclusive. the three days of harrowing testimony. *** When Tarrant opened fire through a After West’s Health Rumors SEOUL (Reuters) -- A government health- window at the mosque, the 49-year-old care reform plan in South Korea has sparked Aziz grabbed a credit-card payment ma- opposition from doctors, prompting strikes, chine and ran outside, passing the bodies threats of legal action and public debate even of an elderly couple, until he saw “this as it grapples with one of its biggest outbreaks Brenton Tarrant, the gunman who shot and killed worshippers in the coward, gutless person” and threw the of novel coronavirus infections.Thousands of machine at him. teaching hospital doctors, trainee doctors and Christchurch mosque attacks, is seen during his sentencing at the private-practice physicians began a three- High Court in Christchurch, New Zealand, August 26, 2020.
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