
China promotes economic ‘integration’ with Taiwan while militarily threatening the island
China is promoting new economic opportunities for Taiwanese people while at the same time ramping up military activity around the island it claims as its own
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Andrew Tate's alleged victim 'extremely afraid' as she struggles to meet basic needs amid ongoing harassment: 'I cannot heal'
Andrew Tate's filings reveal the alleged victims faced isolation and enslavement in Top G's Romanian mansion
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Jesse Lingard still training with West Ham and has offers from Turkey & Saudi Arabia
Jesse Lingard is continuing to train with West Ham United but has received offers from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and MLS, 90min understands. The 30-year-old h
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Gigi and Bella Hadid's sister Alana makes New York Fashion Week debut aged 40
Alana Hadid walked for Elene Velez at New York Fashion Week.
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Kris Jenner appears to be planning her own loungewear line
Kris Jenner has filed to trademark her name for use on items including loungewear and jackets.
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Tyra Banks returns to modelling for Karen Millen
Tyra Banks is modelling again, this time for Karen Millen.
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Kim Jong-un’s chair was ‘greatest concern’ at Putin summit
Kim Jong Un’s security team scrupulously inspected his chair and wiped it down with disinfectant before he could sit at Putin’s summit. Video footage published by te Kommersant newspaper on Thursday showed a North Korean security official in white gloves attentively wiping down Kim’s black chair and spraying an unidentified substance. The North Korean sprayed and wiped down the seat, the hands, the legs and even the area around the chair as a Kremlin bodyguard looked on in a slightly bemused way. Another North Korean guard then gave some sort of order to the guard doing the disinfecting. The nature of the order was unclear. “The chair turned out to be the subject of the greatest concern of the North Korean side,” wrote Kommersant’s Kremlin correspondent, Andrei Kolesnikov. According to reports, Kim’s security team of 100 people were unhappy with the first chair provided and demanded another one, the Kommersant said.“ Then a North Korean employee wiped the chair intended for Kim Jong Un for several minutes without stopping, wearing white gloves: judging by the smell he disinfected it,” said Kommersant, one of Russia’s leading newspapers. Others have speculated the security team also carried out a vigrous check to ensure the chair could handle the North Korean’s weigh and that one guard used a metal detector to check the seat for booby traps and angerous devices. Putin and Kim discussed military matters, the war in Ukraine and possible Russian help for North Korea’s satellite programme. Read More Ukraine-Russia war – live: UK Storm Shadow missiles used in attack on Putin’s Crimea fleet Russian pilot ‘believed he had permission to shoot down RAF spy plane’ Boris Johnson takes swipe at Rishi Sunak over ‘slow’ response to Ukraine weapons pleas
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Bayer Leverkusen visits Bayern Munich with perfect Bundesliga starts on the line for both
Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen will return from the international break with a big game on the line
1970-01-01 08:00

Scott rolls out economic plan as he looks to gain a foothold in 2024 race
As he looks to break through in the 2024 GOP primary, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott rolled out an economic plan on Thursday that takes aim at President Joe Biden's policies and calls for making permanent former President Donald Trump's tax cuts.
1970-01-01 08:00

Olivia Dunne's popularity skyrockets at LSU as she stands firm against critics: 'Worked for everything I’ve earned'
Dunne's ascent to the pinnacle of NIL's success has been driven by her substantial following across multiple social media platforms and her dedication
1970-01-01 08:00

Elon Musk told Taiwan is 'not for sale' following recent comments
Elon Musk has been told Taiwan is “not for sale” by the island’s foreign minister after the tech mogul said Taiwan was an integral part of China. Speaking to the All-In Summit in Los Angeles uploaded to YouTube this week, Musk attracted criticism when he said: “Their [Beijing’s] policy has been to reunite Taiwan with China. From their standpoint, maybe it is analogous to Hawaii or something like that, like an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China mostly because … the US Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of reunification effort by force,” he said. Taiwan foreign minister Joseph Wu, posted on Twitter/X in response, saying that he hoped Musk could ask China to “open @X to its people“. China blocks X, along with other major western social media like Facebook. "Perhaps he thinks banning it is a good policy, like turning off @Starlink to thwart Ukraine’s counterstrike against Russia,” Wu added, referring to Musk’s refusing a Ukrainian request to activate his Starlink satellite network in Crimea’s port city of Sevastopol last year to aid an attack on Russia’s fleet there. “Listen up, Taiwan is not part of the PRC & certainly not for sale!” Wu said, using the acronym for the People’s Republic of China. This is not the first time Musk has annoyed Taiwan, which Xi Jinping wants to annex, claiming it is a province of China. Last October, he suggested that tensions between China and Taiwan could be resolved by handing over some control of Taiwan to Beijing. Meanwhile, this week has seen the largest scale Chinese military activity near Taiwan since major drills in April. On Thursday Taiwan’s defence ministry said it had detected 68 aircraft and 10 ships around Taiwan in the previous 24 hours, including 40 aerial crossings of the median line, prompting rumours of suspected military exercises, which have not been announced by China. Meanwhile, on Wednesday Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office, accused the US and Taiwan of collusion to strengthen Taiwan’s defense capabilities. Maybe Musk should stay out of international relations and stick to Twitter/X. Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.
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'Dancing With The Stars' Season 32: Full list of celebrities competing for mirrorball trophy revealed
'DWTS' season 32 full cast list has been revealed and it appears several new faces will join the competition
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