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India to press Blinken on Afghanistan, China
Jul 28, 2021 (AFP)
Blinken, in his first trip to India as America's top diplomat, was meanwhile due to raise concerns over human rights in his talks with Prime Minister Narendra M...
Kremlin says Biden 'fundamentally wrong' on Russia
Jul 28, 2021 (AFP)
"The wrong understanding and wrong knowledge of modern Russia is evident here," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "Russia is a nuclear power but a...
US says China's sea claims have 'no basis' in international law
Jul 27, 2021 (AFP)
"That assertion treads on the sovereignty of the states in the region," he said at the start of a trip to Southeast Asia, where several countries have competing...
Secretary of Defense Austin commits to Indo-Pacific partnerships
Jul 27, 2021 (UPI)
Speaking at the Fullerton Lecture series sponsored by the International Institute of Strategic Studies Austin called on more partnership between nations in aim ...
China urges US to stop demonising it during official visit
Jul 26, 2021 (AFP)
Sherman arrived in the city of Tianjin on Sunday, aiming to seek "guardrails" as ties between the world's top two economies continue to deteriorate on a range o...
China urges US to be 'rational' as US envoy explores way forward
Jul 26, 2021 (AFP)
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman was firm on human rights and other concerns, US officials said, in the first wide-ranging meeting between the world's tw...
Top US official heads to China to seek 'guardrails' in tense ties
Jul 21, 2021 (AFP)
The trip is going ahead despite near-daily new rifts between the two powers, including on human rights and cybersecurity, with both sides saying they at least w...
Philippines' defense secretary seeks 'side agreement' to pact with U.S.
Jul 21, 2021 (UPI)
The framework, which allows U.S. troops on Philippines soil and offers military interoperability, maritime security, maritime domain awareness, capacity buildin...
Beijing ties climate cooperation to 'health' of US relations
Jul 21, 2021 (AFP)
Tensions between China and the United States have soared in recent months with the two sides trading barbs on Beijing's human rights record and its initial hand...
Gen. Mark Milley warns of threats as NATO command opens in Norfolk, Va.
Jul 16, 2021 (UPI)
Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Vice Adm. Andrew Lewis, commander of the Joint Force Command, led the proceedings Thursday abo...
US sanctions 34 companies over China, Russia, Iran ties
Jul 09, 2021 (AFP)
The group was sanctioned "for their involvement in, or risk of becoming involved in, activities contrary to the foreign policy and national security interests o...
Macron, Merkel hold video talks with China's Xi
Jul 05, 2021 (AFP)
The talks were meant to calibrate positions ahead of several global meetings in the autumn, including the COP26 summit on global warming in the UK and the G20 s...
US, Sri Lanka, Japan militaries conclude weeklong CARAT exercise
Jul 01, 2021 (UPI)
The first CARAT in 2021 started with two days of subject matter expert exchanges followed by five days at sea of military exercises, officials said in a press r...
Dutch say Russian jets buzzed warship in Black Sea
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
The incident last Thursday involved the frigate HNMLS Evertsen, part of a carrier strike group with the British destroyer HMS Defender, which itself purportedly...
Russia, China extend friendship treaty, hail ties
Jun 28, 2021 (AFP)
The Kremlin published a joint statement from Russia and China to mark two decades since the treaty was signed, as Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping held a televised...
U.S., Australia, Japan complete Exercise Southern Jackaroo; USS Ross deploys to Black Sea
Jun 25, 2021 (UPI)
The Marines, Australian Army and Japan Ground self-Defense Force met for a two-week "tangible demonstration of multinational interoperability, where the forces ...
Russia says it fired warning shots at UK ship
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
Incidents involving Western aircraft and ships are not uncommon at Russia's borders, especially during heightened tensions with Washington, Brussels and London,...
US sees 'no better friend' than Germany, eyes common ground on Russia, China
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
Meeting Chancellor Angela Merkel on his first visit to Berlin since taking office, Blinken hailed the "shared values and shared interests" between the United St...
'Verbal ceasefire' between France, Turkey: Paris
Jun 18, 2021 (AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron met on the sidelines of the NATO summit this week, following the rows on inter...
NATO's massive Baltic Sea maritime exercise concludes
Jun 18, 2021 (UPI)
The two-week exercise in the Baltic Sea, stretching between Denmark and Lithuania, involved 16 NATO and partner countries, 40 ships, 60 aircraft and over 4,000 ...
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