Days after China's military said it had conducted "strike drills" around Taiwanese sea and airspace, Taiwan is set to announce its decision to extend the current four-month-long mandatory military service&nbsp;to a year.&nbsp;A Dubai-bound flight carrying the wife and daughter of former football national team captain Ali Daei, who has supported anti-government protests, was re-routed by the Iranian authorities, preventing them from leaving the country. Meanwhile, an arctic deep freeze that has led to a historic winter storm in the US has killed at least 60 people, an NBC News tally showed.

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Days after China's military said it had conducted "strike drills" around Taiwanese sea and airspace, Taiwan is set to announce its decision to extend the current four-month-long mandatory military service to a year.

Days after China's military said it had conducted "strike drills" around Taiwanese sea and airspace, Taiwan is set to announce its decision to extend the current four-month-long mandatory military service to a year. A Dubai-bound flight carrying the wife and daughter of former football national team captain Ali Daei, who has supported anti-government protests, was re-routed by the Iranian authorities, preventing them from leaving the country. Meanwhile, an arctic deep freeze that has led to a historic winter storm in the US has killed at least 60 people, an NBC News tally showed. Click on the headlines to read more: Taiwan set to extend mandatory military service to one year after Beijing's Christmas 'strike drills' Days after China's military said it had conducted "strike drills" around Taiwanese sea and airspace, Taiwan is set to announce its decision to extend the current four-month-long mandatory military service reportedly to a year. The longer service requirements may be implemented by soon as soon as 2024, Asia Nikkei reported, reflecting Taiwan's urgency to bolster its defences amid China's ascending assertions for 'unification' with the island nation that Beijing claims as its own. Dubai-bound flight carrying Iranian footballer’s family who supported anti-govt stir rerouted A Dubai-bound flight carrying the wife and daughter of former football national team captain Ali Daei, who has supported anti-government protests, was re-routed by the Iranian authorities, preventing them from leaving the country. China set to scrap quarantine for overseas arrivals starting January 8 After nearly three years of intense pandemic border restrictions, China will end quarantine measures for foreign visitors as of January 8, the country's top health authority said on Monday. In an online post, the National Health Commission stated that travellers would only need to have a PCR test done 48 hours prior to their trip in order to enter China. 'Once-in-a-lifetime' weather disaster leaves at least 60 dead in US An arctic deep freeze that has led to a historic winter storm in the US has killed at least 60 people, an NBC News tally shows. The chills were spread as far as the Mexican border. The Buffalo region in New York state on the edge of Lake Erie near the Canadian border, was hardest hit. Elon Musk reacts to Russian leader's 2023 predictions Twitter's new owner Elon Musk reacted to former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev's 'humble contribution' to the flurry of predictions related to all 'what can happen in 2023' that included a prediction on Musk's fate in the "presidential election in a number of states" in the US. An 'extremely rare' evidence of dinosaurs consuming mammals spotted Dinosaurs inhabited this planet millions of years ago and in the last two hundred or so years, humanity has found much evidence of the mighty beasts. You would think that given that the very first evidence of dinosaurs was found in the early 1600s we would know almost everything there is to know about them.

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