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Trump to attend NATO summit in London, days before UK vote
Nov 16, 2019 (AFP)
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking to retain power in the December 12 election that has been dominated by Brexit -- a hugely divisive plan for whic...
Bolsonaro says China part of Brazil's future
Nov 13, 2019 (AFP)
Standing alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Brazilian capital of Brasilia, Bolsonaro said he hoped the two countries could not only increase but also...
Turkey's Erdogan calls Macron's NATO comments 'unacceptable'
Nov 13, 2019 (AFP)
Hosting his counterpart in the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump said Erdogan was "very disappointed in the statement made by France" regarding NATO. "I th...
Macron rues 'unprecedented' global crisis, says new alliances needed
Nov 12, 2019 (AFP)
Macron hosted some two dozen heads of state and government at a Peace Forum in Paris just days after he sent shockwaves through Western capitals by warning abou...
Beijing slams Pompeo for 'Cold War thinking' in Berlin speech
Nov 11, 2019 (AFP)
Pompeo -- who spoke in Germany on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall -- said the Chinese Communist Party "uses tactics and methods t...
China's Xi arrives in Athens to 'deepen cooperation'
Nov 10, 2019 (AFP)
Xi is expected to meet President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and the two countries are due to sign cooperation documents on edu...
Trump to host NATO chief as alliance faces strains
Nov 09, 2019 (AFP)
The two leaders will discuss NATO allies' "progress on increasing defense spending and ensuring more equitable burden-sharing," the White House statement said. ...
NATO allies clash after Macron says alliance experiencing 'brain death'
Nov 07, 2019 (AFP)
"What we are currently experiencing is the brain death of NATO," Macron told The Economist magazine in an interview published Thursday, ahead of a NATO summit n...
French leader seeks China deals, also set to raise 'taboo' issues
Nov 04, 2019 (AFP)
Macron began his second official trip to China in the financial hub of Shanghai, where he will attend an international import fair against the backdrop of the t...
US accuses Beijing of 'intimidation' in South China Sea
Nov 04, 2019 (AFP)
The Pacific powers traded tit-for-tat barbs over the South China Sea at a regional summit in Bangkok, with Beijing accusing the United States of ratcheting up t...
Beijing says 'ready to work' with ASEAN on South China Sea rules
Nov 03, 2019 (AFP)
China claims most of the resource-rich waterway, a major global shipping route that has long been a source of tension in the region. For years, the 10-member As...
Pompeo on offense against 'truly hostile' China
Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)
In the latest hawkish take on China by President Donald Trump's administration, Pompeo said he would deliver a series of speeches in coming months laying out ca...
NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine
Oct 30, 2019 (AFP)
Tuesday saw a long-awaited pullback between the two sides in a key area of the war-torn east. The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks betwe...
Russia, Egypt join in air defense exercise Arrow of Friendship
Oct 30, 2019 (UPI)
The 13-day "Arrow of Friendship 1," held in Egypt and ending on Nov. 7, is the first bilateral military exercise by the two countries, and involves large-scale ...
Turkey says joint patrols with Russia to start in Syria 'soon'
Oct 29, 2019 (AFP)
Russia announced that Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters had pulled back from a zone extending 30 kilometres (18 miles) from Turkey under the terms of a deal reached l...
'Intensive' US-Turkey contact during Baghdadi raid: Ankara
Oct 28, 2019 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump announced Sunday that Baghdadi had been killed the previous night during a raid by US special forces in northwest Syria, a few kilomet...
Serbia, Russia to wrap up joint military exercise this week
Oct 28, 2019 (UPI)
The long-range S-400 and the short-range Pantsir-S battery systems are being used in the "Slavic Shield 2019" exercise, testing the Russian and Serbian militari...
China blasts 'arrogance and hypocrisy' of US VP Pence speech
Oct 25, 2019 (AFP)
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular press briefing that the United States should "cease expressing irresponsible opinions". In a wide-ra...
Japan presses China on professor held for 'spying'
Oct 23, 2019 (AFP)
Tokyo confirmed this week a Japanese man in his 40s has been held by Chinese authorities since September on suspicion of violating Chinese laws, without specify...
UK's Johnson threatens election if MPs derail Brexit timetable
Oct 22, 2019 (AFP)
The Conservative leader was speaking ahead of two crucial votes in the House of Commons that will determine if Johnson can fulfil his "do or die" promise to del...
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