Denmark bans drone flights after fresh drone sightings at military bases
Denmark announced on Sunday that it was banning civilian drone flights after sightings of drones near several military facilities overnight, following...
The U.S. State Department says Beijing has blocked a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office employee who was visiting relatives in China from leaving the country, prompting high-level talks to secure the official’s return.
The unnamed civil servant, described as travelling “in a personal capacity,” became subject to an exit ban several months ago, the State Department confirmed on Monday.
“We are tracking this case very closely and are engaged with Chinese officials to resolve the situation as quickly as possible,” a spokesperson said.
The Washington Post reported that Chinese border officers halted the man after discovering he had not declared his U.S. government job on his visa application. Neither the U.S. Commerce Department—of which the patent office is a part—nor the Chinese embassy in Washington responded to requests for comment.
Beijing has increasingly used exit bans against both Chinese citizens and foreigners in civil, regulatory and criminal investigations. Rights group Safeguard Defenders says more than 120 foreign nationals were barred from leaving China between 2018 and 2023, though precise figures are difficult to verify.
In a separate case, Wells Fargo banker Chenyue Mao—a U.S. citizen—was stopped from boarding a flight last week. China’s foreign ministry said on Monday that she “must cooperate with a criminal inquiry.” The U.S. bank has suspended all staff travel to China pending clarification, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The latest exit bans come as Washington and Beijing try to steady relations strained by trade tariffs, the origins of COVID-19 and tensions over Taiwan.
AnewZ has learned that India has once again blocked Azerbaijan’s application for full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, while Pakistan’s recent decision to consider diplomatic relations with Armenia has been coordinated with Baku as part of Azerbaijan’s peace agenda.
A day of mourning has been declared in Portugal to pay respect to victims who lost their lives in the Lisbon Funicular crash which happened on Wednesday evening.
Video from the USGS (United States Geological Survey) showed on Friday (19 September) the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupting and spewing lava.
At least eight people have died and more than 90 others were injured following a catastrophic gas tanker explosion on a major highway in Mexico City’s Iztapalapa district on Wednesday, authorities confirmed.
A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on 13 September with no tsunami threat, coming just weeks after the region endured a devastating 8.8-magnitude quake — the strongest since 1952.
On 27 September 2020, under the leadership of the Glorious Supreme Commander Ilham Aliyev, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces launched a full-scale counteroffensive along the front line to repel military provocations by Armenian forces.
On the eve of the United Nations Security Council meeting on Friday to vote on a six-month extension of Iran’s nuclear sanctions under Resolution 2231, Tehran has stepped up its last-minute diplomatic measures to avert the return of pre-2015 sanctions.
When President Ilham Aliyev traveled to New York in September 2025 for the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, his schedule extended beyond diplomacy.
The foreign ministers of Pakistan, China, Russia and Iran held a quadrilateral meeting on the side-lines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York. This meeting was held at the invitation of the Russian Federation.
Uzbekistan is moving forward with ambitious projects in the nuclear energy sector, combining the construction of small modular reactors with proposals for large-scale nuclear power plants.
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