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Norway donates $240 mn to Ukraine's navy
Dec 16, 2024 (AFP)
"Ukraine needs more support to deter Russian naval forces in the Black Sea in the time ahead. It is essential to protect the Ukrainian population and Ukrainian ...
Philippines ratifies key defence pact with Japan; US warship docks in Cambodia amid China naval base concerns
Dec 16, 2024 (AFP)
Both countries are longtime allies of the United States, which has been strengthening an arc of alliances to deter China's disputed territorial claims in the Pa...
China says any drills around Taiwan 'decided by us alone'
Dec 13, 2024 (AFP)
Taiwanese authorities said this week that Beijing was holding its biggest maritime drills in years, deploying dozens of warships and coast guard vessels in an a...
Taiwan says China carrying out huge maritime deployment
Dec 10, 2024 (AFP)
Taiwanese forces were on high alert in anticipation of Beijing's People's Liberation Army (PLA) staging war games in response to Lai's US stopovers and call wit...
Charred remains of Syrian ships after Israeli strikes
Dec 10, 2024 (AFP)
The Israeli strikes came a day after Syrian president Bashar al-Assad was ousted from power and were among more than 300 raids across Syria in recent days, acco...
US warships, merchant vessels attacked by Yemen's Huthis
Dec 10, 2024 (AFP)
The Huthis began striking ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in November 2023, part of the region-wide fallout from Israel's devastating war in Gaza, which m...
Ship runs aground carrying Norwegian weapons for Poland
Dec 06, 2024 (AFP)
The civilian vessel Finlandia Seaways was transporting some of the weapons Oslo announced Monday to protect the hub when it ran aground off southwestern Norway ...
Russian ship's crew fired signal flares toward German helicopter
Dec 05, 2024 (AFP)
The incident, which comes as the Ukraine war has sharply heightened regional tensions, evokes the "classic provocative behaviour that we know from the time of t...
Japan grants Philippines funding to boost naval capabilities
Dec 05, 2024 (AFP)
The funds, part of a Japanese regional security assistance programme, will provide more rigid-hulled inflatable boats, coastal radar systems and automatic ident...
Chinese ships fire water cannons, collide with Philippine vessels in disputed waters
Dec 04, 2024 (UPI)
The incident occurred Wednesday morning near the Scarborough Shoal, a triangular chain of reefs and rocks located about 120 nautical miles west of the Philippin...
Philippines says China Coast Guard fired water cannon, 'sideswiped' govt vessel
Dec 04, 2024 (AFP)
China claims almost the entire South China Sea, brushing off rival claims from other countries -- including the Philippines -- and an international ruling that ...
Philippine president says Russian submarine 'worrisome'
Dec 02, 2024 (AFP)
The UFA 490 submarine was spotted 148 kilometres (92 miles) west of Cape Calavite on Thursday, the Philippine military said. "Any intrusion into the West Philip...
Indonesia still does not recognise China's sea claims: minister
Dec 02, 2024 (AFP)
The Southeast Asian nation sparked reactions last month as it reached a "common understanding on joint development in areas of overlapping claims" in a joint st...
China says Philippine ships 'illegally gathering' at reef; Philippine president says Russian subs 'worrisome'
Dec 02, 2024 (AFP)
"Recently, several Philippine ships... illegally gathered under the pretence of fishing in the waters near Houteng Reef of China's Nansha Islands," China Coast ...
31 crew of Thai fishing vessels held in Myanmar, one dead: navy
Nov 30, 2024 (AFP)
Suwat Donsakul, a naval commander in the southern province of Ranong, told AFP one Thai fisherman drowned and "31 people were taken into Myanmar", without speci...
German govt seeks to buy 4 submarines for $5bn to boost NATO
Nov 29, 2024 (AFP)
The defence ministry has submitted a request for 4.7 billion euros ($5.0 billion) in extra spending to buy the U212CD submarines from Germany's Thyssenkrupp Mar...
Chinese military sends 'patrols' around contested South China Sea shoal
Nov 28, 2024 (AFP)
The so-called "combat readiness patrols" were to strengthen "vigilance in the sea and air space around the territorial areas of Huangyan Dao," Chinese military'...
China deploys forces as US aircraft flies over Taiwan Strait
Nov 26, 2024 (AFP)
The United States and its allies regularly cross through the 180-kilometre (112-mile) Taiwan Strait, either by ship or aircraft, to reinforce the international ...
Sweden joins Danes guarding Chinese ship in cable probe
Nov 23, 2024 (AFP)
Sections of the two telecom cables were cut on November 17 and 18 in Swedish territorial waters of the Baltic Sea. Swedish and Finnish police have opened invest...
Advanced Chinese warship showcased in Hong Kong
Nov 21, 2024 (AFP)
The 36,000-tonne Hainan is a helicopter-carrying amphibious assault ship that was hailed as a breakthrough for China's navy when it came into service in 2021. I...
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