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Ottawa's envoy in China meets with second detained Canadian: ministry
Dec 16, 2018 (AFP)
The ministry said Ambassador John McCallum had met with Michael Spavor, a business consultant, two days after meeting with another detained Canadian, Michael Ko...
US, Canada promise due process for arrested Chinese executive
Dec 15, 2018 (AFP)
Foreign ministers and defense chiefs of the neighbors met in the US capital as Canada increasingly looks like collateral damage in a simmering US-China trade wa...
US, Canada meet amid standoff with China
Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)
The meeting comes as Canada looks like collateral damage in the US-China rift, with Beijing detaining two Canadians yet still moving forward with the United Sta...
40 years in the making: Five lives changed by China's reforms
Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)
As China marks next week the anniversary of the momentous shift agreed at a Communist Party gathering on December 18, 1978, AFP interviewed five people whose ex...
Kosovo asserts independence with new army; NATO troops in northern Kosovo
Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)
The former Serbian province is currently guarded by NATO-led peacekeeping troops, who have been stationed there since Kosovo broke away from Belgrade in a blood...
With tech exec arrest, Canada squeezed between China, US
Dec 14, 2018 (AFP)
Ottawa confirmed on Thursday that China had detained two Canadian nationals under what Beijing has said is suspicion of threatening its national security. That ...
China probes Canadian on suspicion of 'harming' national security
Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)
Michael Spavor, a China-based business consultant who facilitates trips to North Korea, was placed under investigation Monday by state security in the northeast...
NATO to send Ukraine secure comms amid Russia standoff
Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)
Alliance chief Jens Stoltenberg praised Ukraine for its "calm and restraint" during the recent naval standoff with Russia in the Azov Sea and said NATO support ...
Indian, Chinese troops share dance year after standoff
Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)
Troops from both sides came eyeball-to-eyeball in the disputed Doklam plateau in the Himalayas in June 2017 when Chinese soldiers started building a road and In...
US, Ukraine navy heads meet after Russia ship seizure
Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)
Russian ships last month opened fire on three Ukrainian navy vessels as they tried to pass through the Kerch Strait from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, and d...
Kosovo tests Serbia with vote to build an army
Dec 13, 2018 (AFP)
Since breaking away from Belgrade in a guerilla war in the late 1990s, Kosovo has relied on NATO-led forces to guarantee its security. But at the end of the wee...
Russian military chief accuses NATO of buildup on borders
Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)
Valery Gerasimov, head of Russia's General Staff, "noted a strengthening of NATO's frontline military presence close to Russia's borders", while meeting the com...
Beijing detains Canadian as tensions soar over exec arrest
Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)
Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer, faces extradition to the United States, where she is wanted for allegedly violating Iran sanctions, but Beijing ...
China warns against 'bullying' its citizens, detains former Canadian diplomat
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of telecommunications behemoth Huawei, was on December 1 arrested in Vancouver on US fraud charges related to sanction...
Moscow slams US 'hysterics' over planes sent to Caracas
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
Two Russian long-range strategic bombers landed in Venezuela on Monday for what the Venezuelan government said were air force exercises aimed at strengthening t...
Russia gives ex-navy man 14 years for 'Ukraine spying'
Dec 11, 2018 (AFP)
Leonid Parkhomenko was detained in 2016 in the naval port of Sevastopol on the Russian-annexed peninsula. The Rostov-on-Don court in southwestern Russia also st...
Bolsonaro government has military, conservative streak
Dec 10, 2018 (AFP)
That's the final composition that has emerged after weeks of announcements and casting about to fill the top posts of 22 ministries, down from 29 in the outgoin...
Short, sharp shock if no-deal Brexit
Dec 10, 2018 (AFP)
The possibility of Britain breaking of from its main trading partner without any arrangements in place grew Monday after Prime Minister Theresa May delayed inde...
Trump chooses new Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, against Mattis wishes
Dec 08, 2018 (AFP)
Milley, a four-star general who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan, would replace General Joseph Dunford as the military's next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of ...
Pentagon sends flight over Ukraine following Russian naval incident
Dec 06, 2018 (AFP)
The November 25 confrontation was the first open military incident between Kiev and Moscow since 2014 when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula and a conflict e...
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