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Chinese balloon's equipment 'clearly' for spying: US official
AFP, Published on 10/02/2023
» WASHINGTON - Images from U2 spy planes showed that the Chinese balloon that flew over the United States last week was unmistakably equipped for collecting intelligence and not weather data, a US official said Thursday.
US: Chinese balloon 'clearly' for spying
Published on 09/02/2023
» WASHINGTON: Images from U2 spy planes showed that the Chinese balloon that flew over the United States last week was unmistakably equipped for collecting intelligence and not weather data, a US official said on Thursday.
Biden says US not seeking conflict with China, despite balloon flap
AFP, Published on 09/02/2023
» WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden said Wednesday the United States is not looking for conflict with China despite heightened tensions over last week's downing of a Chinese balloon that US officials say was part of a spy fleet spanning five continents.
US says China balloon 'fleet' is global as NATO joins concern
AFP, Published on 09/02/2023
» WASHINGTON - The United States said Wednesday that suspected Chinese spy balloons like the one it shot down were part of a "fleet" that has spanned five continents, as NATO joined in voicing concern.
Biden taunts Xi over balloon incident
Published on 08/02/2023
» WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden taunted Xi Jinping in his State of the Union address, saying autocracies had grown weaker around the world and that no one would want the Chinese leader’s job.
US recovering balloon debris, won't return to China: W.House
AFP, Published on 07/02/2023
» WASHINGTON - The United States is in the process of recovering debris from the Chinese balloon out of the Atlantic for analysis by intelligence experts and there is no plan to give the remains back to Beijing, the White House said Monday.
US downing of Chinese spy balloon ends chapter in diplomatic crisis
Published on 05/02/2023
» WASHINGTON: The United States shot down a Chinese spy balloon Saturday that had spent the past week traversing the country, an explosive end to a drama that put a diplomatic crisis between the world’s two great powers onto television screens in real time.
China 'regrets' airship that strayed into US
Published on 03/02/2023
» BEIJING: China voiced regret on Friday for an “unintended” breach of US airspace by what it said was an unmanned civilian airship, after the Pentagon said it was tracking a Chinese spy balloon.
'Unbearable distress': families rally for French held in Iran
AFP, Published on 29/01/2023
» PARIS - Families of the French citizens jailed in Iran held a rally Saturday to urge their release, warning that their loved ones were enduring a sometimes years-long "inhuman" psychological and physical ordeal.
French-Irish citizen held in Iran suspends hunger strike: sister
AFP, Published on 21/01/2023
» PARIS - A French-Irish citizen held in Iran has suspended his dry hunger strike at the request of his family, who fear for his life, his sister told AFP on Friday.