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South China sea dispute
Taiwan says it has strengthened deployments in the disputed South China Sea amid tensions with China. Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng says he has sent more personnel and weapons to Itu-Aba Island. That’s the main island Taiwan controls in the South China Sea. The minister says his measure aims to confront what he calls China’s expansionism in the region. He has also warned that those troops are capable of starting a war. China has built man-made islands in the South China Sea and air bases on some of them. That is opposed by Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei. They also have claims on the strategic waterway.
Russia-US election row
Moscow says Washington’s allegations that President Vladimir Putin has meddled in the 2020 US presidential election are baseless. The Russian embassy in the US said Washington’s main goal is to maintain a negative image of Russia. It said the US is trying to blame external players for its domestic problems. The statement follows the release of an American intelligence report on Tuesday. The 15-page document claimed that Putin had directed efforts to try to swing the 2020 US presidential election to Donald Trump. Sources say the US is now expected to impose sanctions on Russia. However, Russian media have cited the foreign ministry as saying that Moscow is calm about the threat.
Covid-19 in Ukraine
Ukraine has registered a record daily high of 289 coronavirus-related deaths over the past 24 hours. The new figure brings Ukraine’s covid death toll to nearly 29,000 out of almost one and a half million cases. The health ministry has sounded the alarm about a daily rise in hospitalizations. That comes after some 5,000 people were admitted for Covid-19. Moving to Germany, some 250 people died of the disease over the past 24 hours. That pushes the country’s tally to around 74,000. In the same period, Germany confirmed more than 13,000 new cases. Its total infections now hover around two and a half million.
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