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China simulated "sealing off" Taiwan during a third day of wargames around the self-ruled island on Monday, as the United States deployed a naval destroyer into Beijing-claimed waters in a show of force.

The acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikolay Milkov, to be appointed to the post of permanent representative of Bulgaria in the NATO mission in Brussels, and his deputy, Kostadin Kojabashev, should become the ambassador to the Vatican. This is what the caretaker cabinet proposes to President Rumen Radev.

Vietnam's economic growth slowed in the first quarter of the year as exports slumped due to reduced consumer demand, authorities said yesterday.

The communist manufacturing hub's economy expanded by 3.32 percent in the January-March period, down from 5.05 percent in the same period of 2022.

The Chinese military said it had tracked a US warship in the South China Sea on Thursday and "warned it to leave" waters claimed by Beijing.

China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China Sea -- a strategic waterway through which trillions of dollars in trade passes annually -- despite an international court ruling that the assertion has no legal basis.

An American investigative journalist and political writer, Seymour Hersh, recently covered the investigation into diversions on the Nord Stream pipeline, through which he suggested that the USA was actually behind the sabotage.

The National Assembly voted on the first reading of a bill submitted by the Council of Ministers for the denunciation of two agreements for Bulgaria's participation in two banks with majority participation by Russia, founded in 1963 and 1970 in Moscow.

Apple plans to increase the share of its products manufactured in India to 25%. This was reported by Reuters, citing a statement by India's commerce minister on January 23.

Having conquered most industries at home, optimistic chiefs at conglomerate Vingroup are setting their sights much higher as they ramp up plans to sell the first ever Vietnamese car in the mighty U.S. market.

Ukraine has begun using AGM-88 HARM high-speed anti-radar missiles in the war against Russia, Business Insider reports.

China's top diplomat on Saturday arrived on his first visit to Myanmar since the military seized power last year to attend a regional meeting that the government said was a recognition of its legitimacy and opponents protested as a violation of peace efforts.