closeVideoFox News Flash top headlines for January 15Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com.A strong, shallow earthquake shook Indonesia's Sulawesi island just after midnight Friday, toppling homes and buildings, triggering landslides and killing at least 34 people.More than 600 people were injured during the magnitude 6.2 quake, which sent…

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In talks with her Chinese equivalent Thursday, Indonesia’s foreign minister revealed “profound concerns” about deaths of Indonesian employees aboard Chinese fishing vessels, as one of her personnel revealed that 4 more sailors had actually passed away in May and June, with their bodies tossed into the sea in July. The statement about the 4 deaths, […]

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Singapore’s leader on Tuesday appealed for stability in the significantly tense relationship in between the United States and China relations, revealing issue that either the 2 world powers might clash, or that the U.S. might turn its back on the area. On the other hand, the leading diplomats and defense authorities of allies U.S. and […]

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Australia has actually sent out a diplomatic note to the United Nations rejecting China’s extensive maritime claims in the South China Sea, signing up with the growing list of nations that have actually pressed back versus Beijing’s anticipation of “historic rights” to the challenged waters. The note was sent out to the UN on Thursday […]

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Indonesia is staging a major marine exercise today in the Java Sea and the South China Sea, the objected to waterway where tensions have actually increased recently in between China and the United States. The Indonesian Navy’s Western Fleet held an exercise in the Java Sea on Wednesday as part of a series of drills […]

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The supervisor of a Chinese fishing boat has actually been apprehended on charges of attack and human trafficking after the death of an Indonesian team member whose remains was found recently, authorities in Indonesia’s Riau Islands stated. Indonesian authorities apprehended 2 Chinese boats as they cruised near Singapore on July 8 after authorities got a […]

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China is dredging in a bay at Woody Island, its greatest settlement in the South China Sea, most likely to broaden the synthetic island’s northwest corner, satellite images shows. This advancement in the contested Paracel island chain, in the northern part of the South China Sea, comes amidst installing issue in Southeast Asia over China’s […]

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Japan and the members of the Southeast Asian bloc voiced issues Thursday over increasing stress in the South and East China Seas, as China’s assertiveness grows and ASEAN thinks about when to resume settlements with Beijing on a standard procedure. Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Countries, or ASEAN, will hold a virtual top […]

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The Indonesian foreign minister stated Thursday there was “no reason to negotiate” as she declared Jakarta’s position that it has no overlapping claims with Beijing in the South China Sea, days after Indonesia sent out the U.N. chief another letter on the subject. The diplomatic letter to United Nations Secretary- General António Guterres, dated June […]

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Indonesia on Friday declined a Chinese offer for settlements on the South China Sea, as Jakarta restated that it had no overlapping claims with Beijing in its special financial zone. The Chinese federal government, in a letter to U.N. Secretary- General António Guterres on Tuesday, acknowledged it had no territorial disagreement with Indonesia however stated […]

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