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Thorny trade, defense issues await US diplomats in India
Sep 04, 2018 (AFP)
The so-called 2+2 dialogue will see Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis meet with their Indian counterparts on a range of key defens...
Macron looks to regain his footing as challenges mount
Sep 04, 2018 (AFP)
The centrist leader is expected to select a replacement for popular environment minister Nicolas Hulot, whose shock resignation last week caught France's politi...
Japan claims China 'escalating' military actions
Sep 03, 2018 (AFP)
Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera said China had been "unilaterally escalating" its military activities in the past year, including carrying out new airborne op...
Ukraine launches joint military drills with NATO
Sep 03, 2018 (AFP)
The annual Rapid Trident military exercises, taking place in the western Ukrainian village of Starychi until September 15, involve some 2,200 soldiers from 14 c...
Japan eyes record defence budget amid N. Korea, China threats
Aug 31, 2018 (AFP)
The ministry wants 5.298 trillion yen ($47 billion) for the next fiscal year from April, the seventh straight annual increase and 2.1 percent more than last yea...
Japan protests as reporter blocked from covering China FM
Aug 30, 2018 (AFP)
On Wednesday, the Chinese foreign ministry excluded a reporter from the Sankei Shimbun -- a Japanese conservative daily critical of China -- from a media pool c...
China dismisses Japan protest over barred reporter
Aug 30, 2018 (AFP)
On Wednesday, the Chinese foreign ministry excluded a reporter from the Sankei Shimbun -- a Japanese conservative daily critical of China -- from a media pool c...
France's Macron proposes EU collective defence plan
Aug 30, 2018 (AFP)
Macron, who has called on the bloc to stop its reliance on Washington as a military backstop, said Europe should seek "strategic autonomy" in defence, during a ...
Russia to hold biggest military drills since Cold War
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
The Vostok-2018, or East 18, exercises simulating large-scale warfare, which the Kremlin called "justified", will be carried out from September 11 to 15 in the ...
Blow for France's Macron as star minister quits
Aug 28, 2018 (AFP)
Nicolas Hulot, one of the most respected members of the cabinet among the French public, took even his interviewers by surprise on the France Inter radio statio...
U.S. F-15s participate in U.K. exercise Typhoon Warrior
Aug 27, 2018 (UPI)
The squadron helped provide valuable training in interoperability between the two air forces during the exercise, which ran Aug. 14-23, according to the RAF. "A...
US accuses China of 'destabilizing' cross-Strait ties with El Salvador move
Aug 24, 2018 (AFP)
"The United States will continue to oppose China's destabilization of the cross-Strait relationship and political interference in the Western Hemisphere," the W...
No fast-track NATO membership for Georgia: Merkel
Aug 24, 2018 (AFP)
"I do not see Georgia's prompt accession to NATO (membership), this is the position of Germany," Merkel said during a meeting with students at the Tbilisi State...
NATO, Japan conduct passing exercise in Baltic Sea
Aug 23, 2018 (UPI)
SNMG1 on Tuesday operated with the JMSDF cadet training vessel JS Kashima and the destroyer JS Makinami, NATO announced. The NATO group is composed of Standing ...
'Crazy Rich Asians' author wanted in Singapore over national service
Aug 22, 2018 (AFP)
Kevin Kwan, who has lived in the US since he was 11 but is still a Singapore citizen, faces up to three years in jail and a hefty fine if convicted, the city-st...
Japan offers to boost Sri Lanka security as China makes inroads
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
President Maithripala Sirisena thanked Japan's Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera for donating two coast guard patrol craft costing over $11 million in total, hi...
US warns of more sanctions coming against Russia
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
"Absolutely ... You will continue without a doubt to see more from this administration," Sigal Mandelker, US Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financia...
US points at China, not Russia, on election meddling
Aug 19, 2018 (AFP)
Trump himself pointed the finger of blame on Saturday, tweeting: "All of the fools that are so focused on looking only at Russia should start also looking in an...
China rejects 'irresponsible' Pentagon report on bombers
Aug 18, 2018 (AFP)
The Thursday report said China was leveraging its growing military, economic and diplomatic clout to rapidly establish regional dominance, while its bombers wer...
Military parade ordered by Trump postponed after costs spiral
Aug 17, 2018 (AFP)
The announcement was seen as a setback for the president, who had ordered the show of air power after being impressed by France's Bastille Day parade last year....
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