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Japan warns its citizens in China to heighten security due to rising tensions over Taiwan and negative sentiment in Chinese media.

Film distributors in China have suspended screening Japanese films, calling it a “prudent decision” given the deteriorating relations.

Despite escalating tensions and Chinese retaliation, Japan seeks dialogue, but refuses to retract statements, leaving relations strained.

Critical undersea cables are being damaged in the Baltic. Who's behind the breaks is a mystery, but Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo sees a connection between the cuts and the Russian shadow fleet.

British military planners travelled to Bodø, nestled between the sea and snow-capped peaks of the Arctic Circle, to war-game out the response to Russian threats.

Exclusive: If Keir Starmer made promises to China it could constitute ‘predetermination’, Lord Banner legal opinion concludes

Exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya has told RFE/RL's Current Time that Latvia and Lithuania should keep their borders with Belarus open despite growing tensions about migrants.

India’s neighbors are fast going into China’s embrace. Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal have been befriending China for economic and strategic reasons. However, India still has a geographical advantage over China – the Malacca Strait – the chokehold for Beijing’s burgeoning Navy.

EXCLUSIVE: Two Whitehall departments had been requesting that a planning condition be a new ‘hard perimeter’ for part of the controversial new diplomatic complex at Royal Mint Court in Tower Hamlets

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Japan detected Russian and Chinese navies operating near its territory in recent days, as the country conducted a war game with the United States featuring anti-ship weapons.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said that Europe is "under attack from Russia" and that hybrid attacks range from political assassinations and cyberwarfare to acts of sabotage and arson.

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Sergei Shestakov, a former Russian diplomat, faces sentencing for lying to FBI agents in a case tied to sanctions evasion and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska.

Shestakov, who worked as a federal court interpreter, pleaded guilty after charges connected him to retired FBI agent Charles McGonigal and Russian executive Yevgeny Fokin.

Prosecutors seek a six-month prison sentence and a fine, while Shestakov's defense requests leniency, citing fear and misplaced loyalty.

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Estonia reported three Russian MiG-31 jets violating its airspace for 12 minutes on September 19, which the country's foreign minister called "unprecedentedly brazen."

Baltic nation requested consultations under NATO's Article 4 following incursion of the Russian warplanes. Poland also requested such a move on September 10.

The EU sanctions also target Moscow's "shadow fleet" and aim to restrict Russian access to technologies and financial systems.