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Taiwan's Tourism Bureau has withdrawn from an international trade trade show after the host organization changed its name on the official website without prior notification.

The military on the island of Taiwan reportedly started on Friday a set of exercises off the coast where the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the mainland have been frequently conducting drills and patrols since mid-September. While analysts on the island claim the exercises were designed to counter those of the PLA, many recent events indicate weaknesses of the Taiwan military and mainland

Two Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan's southwest air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Friday, a day before the country marks its Double Ten National Day.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has thwarted a plot by militia members to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, arresting thirteen people.

The world has set a record for the number of new daily coronavirus cases confirmed across the globe with more than 350,000, according to the World Health Organization.

Unprecedented progress has been made recently on Operation Warp Speed – the effort by the Defense Department, Health and Human Services, other federal agencies and private industry to develop a coronavirus vaccine, an HHS official said today.

In January, when the first inklings of a new, dangerous virus in China was on the horizon, Defense Department personnel alerted a well-established and internationally-connected departmental team to be prepared for a pandemic, said Stephanie Hammond, acting deputy assistant secretary of defense for stability and humanitarian affairs.

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Months into the pandemic, the United States has recorded more than 7,591,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 212,400 deaths as of Thursday evening.

Remaining infected with COVID-19, U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office at the White House on Wednesday.

An Su-30 Mk1 fighter aircraft was used to test-fire a domestically developed new-generation anti-radiation missile (NGARM), RUDRAM, off the country's east coast. The missile has the ability to detect enemy radars on the ground and hit targets with pinpoint accuracy.

New generation Anti Radiation Missile (RUDRAM) was successfully Flight tested today onto a radiation target located on Wheeler Island off the coast of Odisha. The missile was launched from SU-30 MKI fighter aircraft.

A sign outside an office in the Pentagon summarizes the feelings of the people inside the office: "The Western Hemisphere Is the Best Hemisphere."

The UN World Food Programme (WFP), which provides lifesaving food assistance to millions across the world – often in extremely dangerous and hard-to-access conditions – has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize.

The U.N. World Food Program has been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts in combating hunger and in recognition of its actions "to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict."

The 9th annual African Partnership Outbreak Response Alliance (APORA) conference, designed to support efforts to collectively respond to infectious disease outbreaks in Africa, concluded at the end of the third and final virtual seminar Oct. 7.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin unveiled legislation Friday to create a commission that would be empowered by the Constitution's 25th Amendment to act in concert with the Vice President Mike Pence to strip the president of his duties.

A suburban Chicago businessman has been indicted on federal criminal charges for allegedly illegally exporting gun parts and other defense articles from the United States to a company in Ukraine.

Belarus says it has postponed the full launch of the first reactor at its Astravets nuclear power plant by two years to 2022.

Kosovar war veterans say that an unidentified man has again handed them files from a war crimes court in The Hague probing alleged crimes during and after the 1998-99 war, in what appears to be a security breach exposing protected witnesses.