By Ben Blanchard
TAIPEI, June 6 (Reuters) - Taiwan needs to "spend smarter" on its defences and learn lessons from the Ukraine and Middle East wars on using drones to ensure the military balance with China, the de facto U.S. ambassador to Taipei said on Saturday.
While Taiwan's government has prioritised drones and other asymmetric systems for its military modernisation programme, the opposition-dominated parliament last month passed... (continue reading...)
June 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. approved the $1.5 billion sale of five Seahawk maritime helicopters to New Zealand, which has pledged to nearly double its military spending as it seeks to boost defence capabilities.
"The U.S. Department of State has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of New Zealand for MH-60R Multi-Mission Helicopters and related equipment," the department said in a statement on its website... (continue reading...)
WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has pardoned former U.S. Representative Stephen Buyer, an Indiana Republican, who was convicted of securities fraud for engaging in insider trading in 2018 as a T-Mobile US consultant ahead of a $23 billion merger with Sprint.
The proclamation, issued on Thursday and announced by the White House on Friday, gave no specific rationale for the pardon other than to assert that Buyer's service as a... (continue reading...)
June 5 (Reuters) - Russian attacks killed five people in Ukraine's southern Kherson region in three separate incidents on Friday, the regional governor said.
Oleksandr Prokudin, writing on Telegram, said a strike on a district of the region's main city, also called Kherson, killed three people in their 70s and 80s whose bodies were found in damaged homes.
An attack on a petrol station north of the city killed one person and injured... (continue reading...)
By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES, June 5 (Reuters) - Prosecutors filed murder charges on Friday against the man arrested in the fatal stabbing of veteran Hollywood actor James Handy, a familiar face in dozens of films and television shows for half a century and the boyfriend of the suspect's mother.
If convicted, Michael Gledhill, 44, who was jailed as a suspect on Wednesday, faces up to 26 years in prison, the Los Angeles County District... (continue reading...)
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