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Germany sails two warships through

To challenge China's claims, the United States and allies including Australia, Canada, Britain and France, have regularly conducted “freedom of navigation” operations there, sailing through the strait to emphasize that it is international waters. In its last naval deployment to the region in 2021-22, Germany had sought to avoid confrontation with China and attempted a diplomatic balancing act, seeking a port call in China, which Beijing denied, and by not sailing through the Taiwan Strait. The government was widely criticized for this approach, and on this deployment to the Indo-Pacific, leaders decided to sail through the strait en route from South Korea to the Philippines in a widely-telegraphed move. “The signal is a very simple one, which we have always maintained and I have always maintained,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told reporters in Berlin. “International waters are international waters.”
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Disturbing video shows a large group

With selfie-related fatalities hitting news headlines more and more often (officially nine so far in 2024, including, last month Czech gymnast Natalie Stichova, who fell 80m to her death in Germany) we'd hope people would be wising up to the fact that you need to be sensible when it comes to taking photographs in the great outdoors. This crowd of selfie-takers in China clearly didn’t get the memo. A group of about 20 of them got wiped out by a tidal bore which appears to have been the reason they were down at the riverbank in the first place. It’s disturbing to watch, as it could have resulted in multiple deaths, but thankfully that doesn’t appear to be the case. A commenter on the video, which was posted to X a few days go, has translated the text, revealing that it says, “When the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, China was in high tide, two fathers protected their children and were finally rescued safely.” The same commenter later clarified that no one died in the in
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