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Amid an apparent lack of progress on disengagement from some friction points along LAC, China's People's Liberation Army has conducted over 100 drills this year close to border in Tibet region Amid an apparent lack of progress on disengagement from some friction points along LAC in Ladakh, China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has conducted over 100 drills this year close to the border in the Tibet region. Moreover, China last week started a bullet train service between Tibet's capital Lhasa and Nyingchi, a strategically located border town opposite India's Arunachal Pradesh. According to The EurAsian Times, these developments show, despite...

As the July sun sets over a Shropshire smallholding, sheep graze quietly in the fields, horses doze contentedly in their stables, and hawks circle majestically in the skies above. This rural scene is like something out of a painting by Turner or Constable, but suddenly it erupts into chaos more reminiscent of the Keystone Kops. Around the corner of a barn appear 16 frisky dalmatian puppies, tumbling and scampering in every direction as they are pursued by their owner, 21-year-old Becky Elvins. As quickly as she can scoop them up and place them in their large wicker basket, they spill...