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MANILA: South and Southeast Asia braced for more extreme heat on Sunday as authorities across the region issued health warnings and residents fled to parks and air-conditioned malls for relief.A wave of exceptionally hot weather has blasted the region over the past week, sending the mercury as high as 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) and forcing thousands of schools to tell students to stay home.
MANILA: American and Filipino forces launched their largest combat exercises in years Monday in a show of allied firepower near the disputed South China Sea that has alarmed Beijing. The annual exercises by the longtime treaty allies will run until May 10 and involve more than 16,000 of their military personnel, along with more than 250 French and Australian forces.
China is rapidly becoming more aggressive in its rhetoric and actions across Asia, the outgoing head of the US Indo-Pacific Command said, as Beijing turned up the heat on Washington just before Secretary of State Tony Blinken heads to the country for a high-stakes visit.“We all need to understand that it’s moving very fast,” Admiral John Aquilino told reporters in Tokyo on Tuesday.
MANILA: Thousands of Filipino and American troops will kick off joint military exercises in the Philippines on Monday, as Beijing's growing assertiveness in the region raises fears of a conflict.The annual drills -- dubbed Balikatan, or "shoulder to shoulder" in Tagalog -- will be concentrated in the northern and western parts of the archipelago nation, near the potential flashpoints of the South China Sea and Taiwan.
NEW DELHI: Ecuador's national electoral council president Diana Atamaint said that a solid majority of voters on Sunday had approved this, paving the way for the extradition of organized crime bosses.Around 65 per cent of the voters have opted for the "yes" on the extradition while 35 percent went for "no," according to a quick count of vote results, electoral authorities said in a news conference.
NEW DELHI: India delivered BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to Phillipines on Friday. In January 2022, two countries signed a $375 million deal which paved the way for government-to-government deals on BrahMos and other defence collaborations.Under the deal, BrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd, a joint venture of India and Russia, would supply Manila with three export versions of the high-speed BrahMos missile system.
MANILA: The Philippines' decision to ramp up ties with Japan and the United States at a recent summit was a "sovereign choice" for the country, its foreign ministry said on Thursday in response to China's comments opposing the trilateral meeting. US President Joe Biden hosted Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington last week where the three leaders jointly expressed their "serious concerns" over China's actions in the South China Sea.
NEW DELHI: Amid heightened tensions between the Philippines and China, India will begin initial deliveries of the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to Manila on Friday. Two IAF heavy-lift aircraft will ferry the first lot of missiles and launchers, under the $375 million contract for three anti-ship BrahMos coastal batteries inked in Jan 2022, to the Clark International Airport in the Pampanga region of the Philippines, sources said on Thursday.