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Thousands of US soldiers joined Thai and South Korean troops on a beach in Thailand on Friday for one of the largest annual military exercises in Asia. Now in its 42nd year, Cobra Gold brings thousands of forces from the United States, Thailand and other countries together for days of training. Washington has sought to strengthen military alliances in the region in the face of an assertive China. American, Thai and South Korean soldiers launched a joint amphibious operation near a navy base in the east of the country, in which jet fighters screamed overhead and tanks rumbled over the…

Turkey’s inflation rate slowed for a fourth successive month in February, official data showed Friday, ahead of May elections in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s economic record will be under scrutiny. Consumer prices grew at an annualised rate of 55.2 percent in February compared to 57.7 percent in January and 64.3 percent in December, according to the state statistics agency. It peaked at 85.5 percent in October, the highest rate during Erdogan’s two decades of rule. The inflation report comes as the government prepares to pour billions of dollars into rebuilding huge swathes of Turkey following the massive earthquake that…

Cambodian opposition leader Kem Sokha was on Friday sentenced to 27 years in jail for treason, a verdict that ruled him out of elections this year The post Cambodia opposition leader jailed 27 years for treason appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.

German airline giant Lufthansa said Friday it returned to annual profit in 2022 after two years of losses, its fortunes lifted by rebounding demand as economies reopened after Covid shutdowns. The post Lufthansa returns to annual profit after Covid losses appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.

A skyscraper under construction in the heart of a historic Hong Kong shopping and tourist district was left scorched on Friday by a massive fire The post Massive fire engulfs Hong Kong high-rise construction site appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.

Xi Jinping will secure a third term as China’s president at a rubber-stamp parliament that starts this weekend, enjoying unchallengeable status The post China's Xi to secure third term as president, brush off crises appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met briefly in New Delhi on Thursday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, pressing him on Ukraine in the two countries’ highest-level one-on-one contact since the war. Blinken met for less than 10 minutes with Lavrov on the sidelines of the Group of 20 talks, a day after saying that he had no plans to meet his Russian or Chinese counterparts, a senior US official said. Blinken wanted to “disabuse the Russians of any notion that our support might be wavering” on Ukraine, the official said, after growing support from European allies for peace…

Former US Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney has been appointed as a professor at the University of Virginia, the school said Wednesday. Cheney, who lost her seat in Congress last year to an election conspiracy theorist, will assume the role of professor of practice at the university’s Center for Politics, it said. The 56-year-old daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney had become a pariah in the party over her membership on the congressional panel investigating the January 6 assault on the US Capitol — and Donald Trump’s role in fanning the flames. Her defeat in the Wyoming Republican primary marked…

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are being evicted from their home on the British royal family’s Windsor estate, a spokesperson said Wednesday, leaving them without a UK base. The use of Frogmore Cottage was a wedding present from the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2018, and they refurbished it at a reported cost of £2.4 million ($2.9 million). It has now been offered to Prince Andrew, King Charles III’s disgraced brother, according to reports in The Sun and Daily Telegraph. “We can confirm the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have been requested to vacate their residence at Frogmore Cottage,”…

TikTok on Wednesday said it would introduce automatic daily screen time limits of one hour for accounts belonging to under-18s, as the social media platform faces criticism over its addictiveness among young users. Teenagers will have to enter a passcode to continue watching after 60 minutes and those aged below 13 require a parent or guardian to set or enter a passcode to release an additional 30 minutes, TikTok said. The short-form video-sharing app said the changes would be implemented “in the coming weeks”. If a young person’s access to TikTok is via a family pairing account, parents can set…