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Britain unveils new sanctions targeting Russia as G7 summit kicks off
May 18, 2021 (UPI)
Sunak announced that Britain will ban Russian diamonds, a $4 billion export industry for Moscow, as well as imports of Russian copper, aluminium and nickel. Alo...
Investors keen on Brazil, but jury still out on Bolsonaro
May 17, 2021 (AFP)
Still reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, Latin America's biggest economy got some good news last month with a major series of infrastructure auctions that r...
China urges UN to act on Israel-Palestinian conflict
May 13, 2021 (AFP)
The most intense hostilities in seven years have killed at least 83 people in Gaza and seven in Israel since Monday. On Friday the Security Council is to hold a...
Japan launches first joint military drill with US, France
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
An Australian naval ship is also taking part in the week-long air, land and sea exercises involving 300 ground troops from the three countries. It comes as Toky...
Putin submits to parliament bill on exiting Open Skies treaty
May 11, 2021 (AFP)
Moscow announced in mid-January it would withdraw from the treaty, which allows signatories to carry out unarmed surveillance flights over each other's territor...
New military letter warns Macron over 'survival' of France
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
The letter, posted on the website of the rightwing Valeurs Actuelles magazine late Sunday, echoes the one published by the same publication last month. It too w...
Nine east European states slam Russian 'aggressive acts'
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
"The aggressive actions of Russia and the reinforcement of its military capacity in NATO's immediate vicinity, including the recent escalation in the Black Sea,...
Putin on WWII Victory Day vows to 'firmly' defend Russian interests
May 09, 2021 (AFP)
His speech to thousands of soldiers and veterans on Red Square came as recent tensions between Moscow and the West have recalled the Cold War over the conflict ...
Russia, US offer opposing visions of multilateral world in UN talks
May 07, 2021 (AFP)
Speaking at a virtual ministerial session of the UN Security Council organized by his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, the veteran Russian diplomat said that develo...
China 'strongly condemns' G7 rights criticism
May 06, 2021 (AFP)
The G7 made "unfounded accusations against China and openly intervened in China's internal affairs", said Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin. He sai...
NATO kicks off Steadfast Defender 2021 exercise
May 06, 2021 (UPI)
"Exercise Steadfast Defender 2021 will test NATO's readiness and military mobility - with forces deploying across land and sea, all the way from North America t...
EU moots creation of 5,000-strong rapid reaction force
May 05, 2021 (AFP)
The plan -- backed by at least 14 of the bloc's 27 member states -- is aimed at bolstering the EU's military capabilities as part of a review of its overall str...
G7 seeks common front on China in first talks since pandemic
May 04, 2021 (AFP)
Backing US President Joe Biden's calls for a deeper alliance of democracies, host Britain invited guests including India, South Korea and Australia for parts of...
Philippines' top diplomat swears at China online, tells nation to leave disputed waters
May 03, 2021 (AFP)
"China, my friend, how politely can I put it? Let me see... O... GET THE FUCK OUT," Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin tweeted. The latest spat between Manila and...
Philippines' Duterte refuses to stop South China Sea patrols
Apr 29, 2021 (AFP)
Tensions over the sea -- which China claims almost entirely -- have spiked as Beijing refuses to pull out vessels from the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone ...
Stressing diplomacy, Biden says not seeking conflict with China, Russia
Apr 29, 2021 (AFP)
In a speech focused on selling major investments at home, Biden told lawmakers who months earlier had dodged a deadly insurrection that they needed to show demo...
Blinken seeks 'positive way forward' with Turkey but warns of sanctions
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
President Joe Biden on Saturday defied decades of Turkish pressure and recognized the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as genocide, leading Anka...
Australia to upgrade military bases with eye on Pacific tensions
Apr 28, 2021 (AFP)
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a plan worth more than half a billion US dollars to revamp four military training facilities in the remote north over th...
Philippine coast guard holds drills in disputed South China Sea
Apr 25, 2021 (AFP)
The exercises near the Philippine-occupied Thitu Island and China-controlled Scarborough Shoal come amid heightened tensions over the resource-rich sea. The lat...
Japan to host first joint military drill with US, France
Apr 23, 2021 (AFP)
The exercise, running from May 11 to 17, will be the first large-scale exercise in Japan involving ground troops from all three countries, the Japanese Ground S...
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