The U.S. Navy has released a video of what it called an "unsafe interaction" in the Taiwan Strait, in which a Chinese warship crossed in front of a U.S. destroyer in the sensitive waterway, a risky incident amid deteriorating Sino-U.S. ties.
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It was unclear whether the reported attack represented the formal start of a Ukrainian counteroffensive to recapture some of the territory taken by Russian forces after the invasion.
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Taiwan's ProLogium picked France to open four gigafactories that President Emmanuel Macron hopes will turn a poor, former coal mining area near Belgium into a hub for the EV battery industry.
