Washington insists that growing military ties with Seoul and Tokyo has nothing to do with Beijing The US is not working to create a “NATO for the Pacific” as a way to target China, the White House has claimed, after President Joe Biden declared a “new era” of security cooperation with South Korea and Japan.

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Federal judges have sided with the Bavarian government in its litigation against an atheist group The authorities in Bavaria have the right to demand that Christian crosses be placed in all government buildings, the German Federal Administrative Court – one of the nation’s five federal supreme courts – ruled on Tuesday. The decision followed a…