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The Philippine coastguard said it deployed a patrol ship to deter China’s activities and inflatable boats to monitor Chinese research vessels in the area near what it called the Escoda Shoal.
The Tokyo-based company earned a better-than-expected net income of 231.1 billion yen (US$1.5 billion) in the March quarter, compared with a net loss of 57.6 billion yen a year earlier, helped by investment gains at the holding company and on derivative contracts. For the full year, SoftBank reported a narrower net loss of 227.7 billion yen, beating expectations.
LONDON (AP) — Three men have been charged with allegedly assisting Hong Kong intelligence services and with foreign interference, London’s Metropolitan Police said Monday.
SAMASTIPUR, India (AP) — Millions of Indians across 96 constituencies began casting their ballots on Monday as the country’s gigantic, six-week-long election edges past its halfway mark. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third straight term with an eye on winning a supermajority in Parliament.
The absence of the prime minister’s party from the electoral fray in the Muslim-majority region is seen as a sign of its unpopularity.
Russian President Vladimir Putin tapped a civilian economist as his surprise new defense minister on Sunday in an attempt to gird Russia for economic war by trying to better utilize the defense budget and harness greater innovation to win in Ukraine.
In the past three days, Russian troops have poured across Ukraine’s northeastern border. They have taken more square miles per day than at almost any other point in the war — save the very beginning — and are moving near Kharkiv.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A major fire broke out Sunday morning in a vast shopping complex in the Polish capital that housed some 1,400 shops and service outlets and where many of the vendors were from Vietnam.