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Ukraine urges 'comprehensive' NATO response to Russia
Dec 04, 2018 (AFP)
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin hinted that at least one NATO member was ready to enhance its presence in the Black Sea in response to a call from Kiev...
Xi heads to Portugal as China's influence worries EU partners
Dec 04, 2018 (AFP)
Fresh from a visit to Spain last week, his two-day stay in Portugal will include a meeting with President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and the signing of cooperation...
China's Xi in Panama on mission to bolster clout in Latin America
Dec 03, 2018 (AFP)
Xi arrived in the Central American country late Sunday, fresh from striking a 90-day truce deal in the trade war with US President Donald Trump at the G20 summi...
NATO treads carefully in Ukraine-Russia sea spat
Dec 03, 2018 (AFP)
Foreign ministers from the 29 allies will meet Ukraine's foreign minister on Tuesday to discuss last week's incident in the Sea of Azov, in which Russian forces...
Mattis blasts Russia's 'brazen contempt' toward Ukraine
Dec 01, 2018 (AFP)
Speaking of a 2003 agreement governing the Kerch Strait between the Azov Sea and Black Sea, Mattis said Moscow had shown "brazen contempt and dismissal" for the...
Beijing lashes out at US for South China Sea sail-by
Nov 30, 2018 (AFP)
The US and its allies periodically send planes and warships through the area to conduct "freedom of navigation" operations, intended as a signal to Beijing of t...
China vexed by US Navy ships sailing through Taiwan Strait
Nov 29, 2018 (AFP)
"China will pay close attention to and stay informed of US warships sailing through the Taiwan Strait from beginning to end, and has already expressed its conce...
NATO to meet Ukraine minister amid Azov stand-off
Nov 29, 2018 (AFP)
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has urged the western allies to deploy naval vessels to the Sea of Azov after Russian forces fired on and seized three Ukra...
Trump sets up stormy G20 with Putin snub
Nov 29, 2018 (AFP)
Rumblings of resistance to Trump's assault on the international order were apparent as French President Emmanuel Macron said he would convene his fellow Europea...
China seeks allies in Spain and Portugal despite EU reservations
Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)
China's President Xi Jinping began a three day visit to Spain on Tuesday on his way to a meeting of Group of 20 leaders in Argentina, and will stop in neighbour...
US Navy ships sail through Taiwan Strait
Nov 28, 2018 (AFP)
Lieutenant Rachel McMarr, a spokeswoman for the US Pacific Fleet, said the destroyer USS Stockdale and oiler USNS Pecos sailed through the strait in a "routine"...
China's Xi to send special envoy to Mexican presidential inauguration
Nov 27, 2018 (AFP)
Shen Yueyue, a senior member of the Communist Party, will travel to Mexico City to attend the inauguration of the country's leftist president-elect, Andres Manu...
Trump faces China trade showdown, Russia, Saudi tensions at G20
Nov 27, 2018 (AFP)
Trump is due to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Buenos Aires for a working dinner at the Group of 20 summit that runs Friday and Saturday. Economic advisor La...
Mattis notes stability of Western Hemisphere at command change ceremony
Nov 27, 2018 (UPI)
At the ceremony, held Monday in Miami, where Southcom is based, Mattis talked about the work done by the command to help people in the region. "There is more in...
NATO demands Russia free seized Ukrainian ships
Nov 26, 2018 (AFP)
Russia fired on and then seized three Ukrainian ships on Sunday, accusing them of illegally entering its waters in the Sea of Azov, in a dramatic spike in tensi...
Bolsonaro makes another military appointment to Brazil cabinet
Nov 26, 2018 (AFP)
Ex-army captain Bolsonaro made the announcement on Twitter, where most of his key decisions have been transmitted since he won October's presidential election. ...
Trump ups pressure on Macron as weighs in on French demos
Nov 25, 2018 (AFP)
Writing on Twitter, Trump showed he had been keeping an eye on Saturday's demonstrations across France and refrained from showing sympathy for the beleaguered M...
Ukraine says Russia rams navy tugboat off Crimea
Nov 25, 2018 (AFP)
Ukraine said the incident took place as three of its ships including two small warships were heading for the port of Mariupol in the Sea of Azov, an area of hei...
Russian FM mocks British army chief over IS comparison
Nov 24, 2018 (AFP)
"In regards to the words from Britain's chief of the general staff, we can't stop someone from showing what his intellectual capacities are," Lavrov said throug...
Brazil's diplomacy at risk of rupture with Araujo appointment
Nov 23, 2018 (AFP)
A little-known career diplomat who's never even held an ambassadorial role, the 51-year-old Araujo shares his new boss's passion for anti-China vitriol and skep...
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