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Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 25, 2025. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP)
December 28, 2025, 6:38 pm
Somali president: Israel’s recognition of Somaliland a ‘threat’ to regional stability
Amid wave of condemnations of Israeli move, Taiwan welcomes decision, calling Jerusalem, Taipei and Hargeisa ‘like-minded democratic partners’
By AFP and ToI Staff
Taiwanese Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu, seen in September 2024. (CC-BY-Liu Shu fu / Office of the Taiwanese President, Flickr)
December 11, 2025, 11:11 am
Eyeing defense cooperation, Taiwan’s deputy FM made secret trip to Israel
Sources tell Reuters that Francois Wu visited Israel recently, after Taipei’s FM said there is ‘mutual learning’ on defense matters between the countries; China ‘firmly objects’ to trip
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Taiwanese Foreign Minister Lin Chia-Lung speaks to reporters in Taipei, Taiwan on November 12, 2025. (AP/Johnson Lai)
November 12, 2025, 9:11 pm
Taiwan’s foreign minister: Closer ties with Israel align with the island’s interests
Comments by Lin Chia-Lung praising Israel and denigrating Palestinian policy are latest sign of warming relations between Taipei and Jerusalem
By AP and ToI Staff
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te waves during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, on October 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)
October 28, 2025, 3:57 pm
Taiwan president, citing David and Goliath, tells AIPAC Israel is a model for defense
Lai Ching-te says Taiwanese ‘often look to the example of the Jewish people when facing challenges’ from China
By Reuters and ToI Staff
This combination photo shows US President Donald Trump in a business roundtable in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 16, 2025, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a signing ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, May 10, 2025. (AP Photo, Files)
July 9, 2025, 3:21 pm
Trump said he told Putin he’d ‘bomb the sh*t out of Moscow’ if he attacked Ukraine – report
CNN releases audio of Trump at 2024 gathering of donors during election campaign; US president claims to have issued similar warning to China’s Xi over potential Taiwan invasion
By Reuters and ToI Staff
In Beirut's southern suburbs, the remains of exploded pagers used by Hezbollah on display at an undisclosed location, on September 18, 2024, in a stealth attack blamed on Israel. (AFP)
November 11, 2024, 12:56 pm
Closing case, Taiwan prosecutors say Hezbollah exploding pagers not made by local firms
Law enforcement officials say AR-924 model made outside of Taiwan and traded and shipped by Frontier Group Entity; admit they don’t know exact identities of that firm’s employees
By Reuters and ToI Staff
People gather outside Beirut's American University hospital after the arrival of several men who were wounded by exploded handheld pagers, in an attack on Hezbollah fighters blamed on Israel, in Beirut, Lebanon, September 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Bassam Masri)
September 23, 2024, 6:12 pm
Taiwan investigators question more employees in probe into Hezbollah device blasts
No suspects named, questions abound as to origins of devices that exploded in Lebanon last week; Taipei ‘certain’ pagers didn’t originate there; NYT has reported Israel made them
By Agencies and ToI Staff
An undated file catalog image of an Apollo pager, similar to the ones that exploded on September 17, 2024, in various cities of Lebanon and Syria, in an unprecedented attack on Hezbollah personnel. (Balkis Press / ABACAPRESS.COM / Reuters)
September 18, 2024, 8:41 pm
Taiwan, Hungary deny making Hezbollah pagers, deepening mystery of their origin
Gold Apollo, Taiwanese firm identified as making model, is emphatic it did not make exploding devices; Budapest says company’s local partner has no production site in the country
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Speaker of the US House Mike Johnson talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
April 20, 2024, 1:11 pm
US House gears up to pass Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan aid in unlikely bipartisan vote
Kyiv-skeptic GOP ‘America Firsters’ threaten Johnson with ouster after Speaker secures Biden’s blessing for Democrats to support procedural motion enabling $95 billion package
By Agencies
Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te, center, celebrates his victory with running mate Bi-khim Hsiao, right, in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
January 13, 2024, 5:37 pm
Candidate strongly opposed by China wins Taiwan’s presidential election
Beijing, which insists the small island nation belongs to it, had called the poll a choice between war and peace
By Agencies
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, right, at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, June 18, 2023. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP)
June 18, 2023, 1:40 pm
Blinken in Beijing on high-stakes mission to cool soaring US-China tension
US secretary of state has plenty to discuss in Chinese capital, from human rights issues to trade with Taiwan, Hong Kong, and detained American citizens
By Matthew Lee
Israeli Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau, third from bottom right, meets with Jeffrey Schwartz, third from left, at the Jeffrey D. Schwartz Jewish Community Center in Taipei, in February 2023. (Courtesy of the Jeffrey D. Schwartz and Na Tang Jewish Taiwan Cultural Association)
March 2, 2023, 8:50 am
Israeli chief rabbi visits Taiwan in milestone for country’s Jewish community
David Lau participates in ceremony dedicating cultural center, attends regional summit of rabbis, meets with Taiwanese officials; says impressed by locals’ dedication to tradition
By Jordyn Haime
Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz lights the first Hanukkah candle in Kharkiv, Ukraine, December 18, 2022. (Vyacheslav Madiyevskyi / Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images via JTA)
December 22, 2022, 8:25 am
2 Lego menorahs, candle lighting under war: Hanukkah celebrated around the world
From Ukraine to Taiwan, from Sao Paulo to Denver, menorahs light up Jewish communities as they celebrate the Festival of Lights
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) and Russian President Vladimir Putin prior to their talks in Beijing, China, on February 4, 2022. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
August 29, 2022, 1:38 pm
Russia and China to conduct sweeping joint military drills
War games begin amid increased tension between the West and both Moscow and Beijing after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Nancy Pelosi’s August visit to Taiwan
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
The guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) transits the Philippine Sea, June 18, 2016. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ryan J. Batchelder/US Navy via AP)
August 28, 2022, 9:17 pm
Two US warships sail through Taiwan Strait amid tensions with China
US Navy notes maneuver is ‘routine,’ as Chinese military says it is cautioning vessels throughout their journey, remains ready to ‘foil any provocations’
By AFP
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