1+ hour, 28+ min ago  (289+ words) JERUSALEM, May 31 (Reuters) " Israeli troops have seized the 900-year-old Beaufort Castle and its strategic ridge in southern Lebanon, the military said on Sunday, a "major advance against Iran-backed Hezbollah despite a ceasefire "announced more than six weeks ago. It comes…...

1+ hour, 59+ min ago  (687+ words) By Raju Gopalakrishnan and Greg Torode SINGAPORE, May 31 (Reuters) " Caught between China's rapid military rise and growing doubts about the U. S. focus on a region it has long dominated, Indo-Pacific nations are racing to arm themselves, and each other. At Asia's…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago  (145+ words) MOSCOW, May 31 (Reuters) " Ukrainian drones struck energy and industrial targets across several Russian "regions overnight, Russian authorities said "on Sunday, in an escalating campaign of strikes against infrastructure. In Saratov, a region on the Volga River "with "several oil refineries…...

3+ hour, 27+ min ago  (164+ words) SINGAPORE, May 31 (Reuters) - The South Korean and Japanese defence ministers "discussed the possibility "of concluding a military-logistics support agreement, Yonhap News Agency said on Sunday. "It "requires "the understanding "and persuasion of "the. .. SINGAPORE, May 31 (Reuters) " The South Korean and…...

3+ hour, 13+ min ago  (420+ words) BEIJING, May 31 (Reuters) " China's military and coast guard said they carried out patrols near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Sunday, a day after the Philippine defence minister said Manila remained under "threat from Beijing despite a recent…...

3+ hour, 42+ min ago  (265+ words) May 31 (Reuters) " The Czech Republic will "probably" miss NATO's target to boost military spending to 2% of gross domestic product'this year, Prime Minister "Andrej Babis said in an interview published "on Sunday. "We will do our best" to meet the pledge,…...

7+ hour, 42+ min ago  (388+ words) By Rae Wee and Jun Yuan Yong SINGAPORE, May 31 (Reuters) " Japan's Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Sunday refuted accusations of "new militarism" by Tokyo and criticised China for rapidly increasing military capabilities without transparency, underlining "deepening tensions between the two…...

10+ hour, 27+ min ago  (352+ words) LONDON, May 31 (Reuters) " British foreign minister Yvette Cooper will travel to China on Monday, and then onwards to India later in the week, with the visits to focus on "global issues from the Strait of Hormuz and the Russia-Ukraine "war…...

14+ hour, 6+ min ago  (201+ words) May 30 " The U. S. military says it fired a missile into the engine room of "a vessel trying to get through "the U. S. blockade of Iran on Friday. " In a statement on Saturday, U. S. Central Command said it fired a "Hellfire "missile into the…...

15+ hour, 49+ min ago  (437+ words) WASHINGTON, May 30 (Reuters) " A U. S. judge in Florida said she will review a deal between the Justice Department and President Donald Trump to settle his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, intensifying scrutiny "of the heavily criticized agreement. Trump filed…...