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From China trade wars and tensions with Australia and the United States, to conflict in the South China Sea, get all your news updates.

Technology
This handout satellite picture taken on March 26, 2018 and released on March 30, 2018 by Planet Labs Inc. shows China's sole operational aircraft carrier, the Liaoning (C), sailing with other ships at sea, south of China's southern Hainan island. Beijing flexed its military muscle this week as its sole operational aircraft carrier was apparently spotted conducting a massive naval drill with dozens of vessels in the South China Sea, according to satellite images released on March 30. / AFP PHOTO / PLANET LABS INC. / PLANET LABS INC. /  - China OUT / -----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

China sends warning to US

TWO decades ago, Bill Clinton sent a military exercise through the Taiwan Strait as a show of American power. Today China is set to respond in kind.

Space
FEBRUARY 1, 2003: Debris from Space Shuttle Columbia presumably breaking up in one of a series of photos taken by amateur photographer Dr Scott Lieberman, as she returns from her mission, 01/02/03 with NASA issued warning to Texas residents not to touch possible debris from exploded craft, with all 7 astronauts killed.USA / Accident

Australia’s $400 fine to NASA

CHINESE space station, Tiangong 1, crashed back to Earth today but it’s far from the only spacecraft to spiral out of control and crash land.

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