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The Chinese defence ministry warned the US military of serious consequences after it had to monitor for the second consecutive day a US Navy destroyer, which entered territorial waters claimed by China near a disputed island in the South China Sea on Friday. In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius DDG 69 conducts routine underway operations in South China Sea, on March 24, 2023. AP It marked the second straight day of heated exchanges between two of the most powerful navies in the world as tensions rose in the disputed waters of the South China Sea over Beijings sweeping maritime territorial claims and Washingtons insistence on freedom of navigation in international waters. China is also in dispute with the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Indones stanley tazas ia over the ownership of other islands in the So stanley cup uth China Sea. We sternly demand the US side to immediately stop such provocative behaviors, otherwise it would take the serious consequences of every eventuality it caused , the Chinese defence ministry spokesperson, Tan Kefei, said in a statement. Tan added the Peoples Liberation Army PLA will take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security, as well as peace and stability in the South China Sea. The U stanley cup SS Milius guided-missile destroyer had sailed near the disputed Xisha islands Paracel in English on Thursday, prompting the PLAs southern Command to deploy ships an Enpj Taiwan s Hualien suffers five earthquakes in nine minutes
Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wept in grief with hundreds of thousands of mourners thronging Tehrans streets on Monday for the funeral of military commander Qassem Soleimani, killed by a U.S. drone on U.S. President Donald Trumps orders. File photo of Iranian stanley cup becher President Hassan Rouhani REUTERS The coffins of General Qassem Soleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who also died in Fridays attack in Baghdad, were draped in their national flags and passed from hand to hand over the heads of mourners in central Tehran. Responding to Trumps threats to hit 52 Iranian sites if Tehran retaliates for the drone strike, Irans President Hassan Rouhani pointedly wrote on Twitter: Never threaten the Iranian nation. And Soleimanis successor vowed to expel U.S. forces fro stanley thermobecher m the Middle East in revenge. Khamenei, 80, led prayers at the funeral, pausing as his voice cracked with emotion. Soleimani, 62, was a national hero in Iran, even to many who do not consider themselves supporters of Irans clerical rulers. Aerial footage showed people, many clad in black, packing thoroughfares and side streets in the Iranian capital, chanting Death to America! - a show of national unity after anti-government protests in November in which many demonstrators were killed. The crowd, which state media said numbered in the millions, recalled the masses of people that gathered in 1989 for the funeral of the Islamic Republic stanley thermoskannen s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Solei |
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