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TAIPEI: China is the real threat to security and is hypocritically claiming to uphold UN principles of peace, Taiwan Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung said on Sunday (Feb 15) in a rebuff to comments by China’s top diplomat at the Munich Security Conference.China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, a view the government in Taipei rejects, saying only Taiwan’s people can decide their future.Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, addressing the annual security conference on Saturday, warned that some countries were “trying to split Taiwan from China”, blamed Japan for tensions over the island and underscored the importance of upholding…

Witnesses say the motorcycle riding gunmen attacked three communities in northern Nigeria, killing and abducting dozens.Listen to this article | 4 minsinfoGunmen on motorcycles have rampaged through three villages in northern Nigeria, killing at least 32 people and abducting several more, according to witnesses and local police.The raids on Saturday in the Borgu area of Niger State came amid a complex security crisis in northern Nigeria, featuring armed groups affiliated with ISIL (ISIS) as well as gangs that abduct people for ransom money.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listWasiu Abiodun, ‌the Niger State police spokesperson, confirmed the attack in one of…

Casey Wasserman, the chairman of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics organizing committee, says he is selling his eponymous talent agency in the wake of the release of emails between himself and Ghislaine Maxwell.Wasserman’s emails with Maxwell were revealed by his appearance in recently released government files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Wasserman, whose agency represents some of the top pop music artists in the world, has not been accused of any wrongdoing.The recently released documents revealed that in 2003 he swapped flirtatious emails with Epstein associate Maxwell, who would years later be convicted of helping Epstein recruit and sexually…

The spectre of One Nation is looming large over an upcoming election, with support surging for the right-wing populist party at state level.A Victorian state poll of 1274 voters, conducted by DemosAU/PremierNational from February 1 to 10, put One Nation’s primary vote at 21 per cent.The result isn’t quite as strong as the 26 per cent watermark indicated in recent national polling.But it represents a 20.7 per cent swing from the 2022 Victorian election across a state that ex-prime minister John Howard once described as the “Massachusetts of Australia” for its left-leaning tendencies.Labor’s primary vote has crumbled to 23 per…

MUNICH: China’s top diplomat Wang Yi told German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that Beijing hoped to bring bilateral ties to a “new level”, as they met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday (Feb 14).Wang has been trying to present Beijing as a more reliable and stable partner of the European Union, as the bloc seeks to reduce its dependence on both China and an unpredictable United States.He told Merz that China hoped to work with Germany to bring the “all-round strategic partnership to a new level”, according to a readout from Beijing’s foreign ministry.With Berlin’s support, Beijing…

Investor Matt Shumer ignited a firestorm on social media this week with an essay that warned about the disruptive potential of AI. More than 80 million views later, he said it “wasn’t meant to scare people.””I want to be very clear about this, the article wasn’t meant to scare people in this way,” Shumer told CNBC’s “Power Lunch” on Friday. “If I had known how viral this was going to go, I would have thought about certain parts and rewritten some of the parts for sure.”The essay, “Something Big Is Happening,” details Shumer’s recent experiences using artificial intelligence. In it,…

Listen to this article | 4 minsinfoDoctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, has suspended some operations at a Nasser Hospital in Gaza after its staff and patients saw “armed men, some masked” posing “serious security threats” inside the building.The Geneva-based medical charity reported on its website that non-essential work at the hospital in Khan Younis was halted on January 20 due to concerns with the “management of the structure, the safeguarding of its neutrality, and security breaches”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“MSF teams have reported a pattern of unacceptable acts, including the presence of armed men, intimidation,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference, saying that President Donald Trump “wants a solution that ends the bloodshed once and for all.””Met with Ukrainian President @ZelenskyyUa on Ukraine’s security and deepening defense and economic partnerships,” Rubio wrote in an X post where he shared a photo of him shaking hands with the Ukrainian leader. “President Trump wants a solution that ends the bloodshed once and for all.”Earlier Saturday, Zelenskyy revealed he had spoken with Rubio as well as Trump…

Strategy CEO Michael Saylor brushed off concerns about the company’s credit risk if bitcoin continues to tumble. In fact, Saylor said he plans to keep accumulating the cryptocurrency for the company every quarter. “If bitcoin falls 90% for the next four years, we’ll refinance the debt,” the executive said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “We’ll just roll it forward.”Asked whether he believed banks would continue to lend to the digital asset treasury firm if bitcoin collapses, Saylor said, “Yeah, because the volatility of bitcoin is such that it’s always going to be a value.”Bitcoin was last trading at $68,970.45, down…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! During Team USA’s comeback men’s hockey win over Denmark at the Winter Olympics, two fans raised the flag of Greenland in the stands to protest President Donald Trump’s intent to acquire Greenland for the U.S. The flag was raised enthusiastically after Denmark took an early lead. However, the U.S. came back to win the game 6-3. Vita Kalniņa and her husband Alexander Kalniņš, fans of the Latvian hockey team who live in Germany, held up a large Greenland flag during warmups and again when the Danish team scored the opening goal of the preliminary…