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China-related Cyber Threats Trigger Crisis between Berlin and Beijing

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, second from left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, second from right, walk together in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Ding Haitao/Xinhua via AP)
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, second from left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, second from right, walk together in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Ding Haitao/Xinhua via AP)
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China-related Cyber Threats Trigger Crisis between Berlin and Beijing

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, second from left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, second from right, walk together in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Ding Haitao/Xinhua via AP)
In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, second from left, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, second from right, walk together in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. (Ding Haitao/Xinhua via AP)

China said Germany has publicly made groundless accusations against it about "so-called cyber intrusion," the Chinese embassy in Germany said.
"China firmly opposes the manipulation of cybersecurity issues and hyped up so-called China-related cyber threats," the embassy said in a statement released late on Wednesday.
Germany accused China of having been behind a 2021 cyberattack on the federal cartography agency for espionage purposes and summoned Beijing's ambassador to Berlin to lodge a complaint, reported Reuters.

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King Charles Marks Air India Tragedy with Moment of Silence during Birthday Parade

Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla ride in a carriage, as part of the Trooping the Color parade to honor Britain's King Charles on his official birthday in London, Britain, June 14, 2025. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla ride in a carriage, as part of the Trooping the Color parade to honor Britain's King Charles on his official birthday in London, Britain, June 14, 2025. REUTERS/Toby Melville
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King Charles Marks Air India Tragedy with Moment of Silence during Birthday Parade

Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla ride in a carriage, as part of the Trooping the Color parade to honor Britain's King Charles on his official birthday in London, Britain, June 14, 2025. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla ride in a carriage, as part of the Trooping the Color parade to honor Britain's King Charles on his official birthday in London, Britain, June 14, 2025. REUTERS/Toby Melville

King Charles III and other members of the royal family in uniform wore black armbands and observed a moment of silence during his annual birthday parade Saturday as the monarch commemorated those who died in this week’s Air India plane crash.

Charles requested the symbolic moves “as a mark of respect for the lives lost, the families in mourning and all the communities affected by this awful tragedy,” Buckingham Palace said, according to The Associated Press.

An Air India flight from the northwestern city of Ahmedabad to London crashed shortly after takeoff on Thursday, killing 241 people on board and at least 29 on the ground. The plane was carrying 169 Indians, 53 Britons, seven Portuguese and one Canadian. One man survived.

In addition to being Britain’s head of state, Charles is the head of the Commonwealth, an organization of independent states that includes India and Canada.

The monarch’s annual birthday parade, known as Trooping the Color, is a historic ceremony filled with pageantry and military bands in which the king reviews his troops on Horse Guards Parade adjacent to St. James’ Park in central London.

The military ceremony dates back to a time when flags of the battalion, known as colors, were "trooped,'' or shown, to soldiers in the ranks so they could recognize them.

All members of the royal family in uniform wore black armbands. The moment of silence occurred while the king was on the dais after reviewing the troops.

Charles’ mother, Queen Elizabeth II, held a similar moment of silence in 2017 when Trooping the Color took place three days after a fire ripped through the Grenfell Tower apartment bloc in west London, killing 72 people.