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Merkel in Washington to make Germany heard again
Apr 27, 2018 (AFP)
The German leader's visit has already been overshadowed by a backslapping three-day festival of "fraternite" between Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel ...
The tamer tamed -- who wins in the Trump-Macron friendship?
Apr 26, 2018 (AFP)
But after three days of back-slapping, hugs and handshakes, it was Donald Trump who appeared to have led the diplomatic dance -- while giving little ground to h...
France's Macron ends visit with speech to US Congress
Apr 25, 2018 (AFP)
Macron earned an exuberant welcome from the Republican president -- an elaborate state dinner, an intimate dinner for four with their wives at George Washington...
Bolton, Mattis meet at Pentagon
Apr 25, 2018 (AFP)
The breakfast meeting came amid US media reports that Mattis risks being isolated by Trump's more bellicose coterie of advisors, including Bolton, an Iraq War-e...
Macron: Meeting Dalai Lama would spark 'crisis' with China
Apr 25, 2018 (AFP)
Macron, speaking at a town hall with George Washington University students in the US capital at the tail end of his state visit, said he met in Paris with the "...
US Commerce Secretary calls China 2025 plan 'frightening'
Apr 24, 2018 (AFP)
"It's a huge, huge problem," Ross told a gathering of fabric industry executives about the repeated theft of technology. "And it's not going away." He said Beij...
Chinese, Indian leaders to meet this week
Apr 22, 2018 (AFP)
The two leaders will hold an "informal summit" in the city of Wuhan on Friday and Saturday, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said after talks with his Indian counterpar...
Turkey to consider Greek soldiers' case if coup suspects returned
Apr 21, 2018 (AFP)
Turkey is holding in pre-trial detention two Greek soldiers who crossed the border on March 2, claiming to have lost their way in the fog. The pair, held in the...
Chinese ship conducting research near disputed islets: Japan
Apr 20, 2018 (AFP)
A Japanese patrol boat confirmed that the Chinese research ship was sailing on Thursday and Friday by extending a wire into the sea some 150 kilometres (93 mile...
US-China trade tension dominates IMF gathering
Apr 20, 2018 (AFP)
Official after official has called for disputes to be resolved through dialogue rather than unilateral tariffs, and warned about the threat to the economic reco...
US brands China and Russia 'forces of instability'
Apr 20, 2018 (AFP)
The charge was made by acting secretary of state John Sullivan as he launched Washington's annual global human rights report, which this year is focused on dest...
Russian general and NATO commander meet in Baku
Apr 19, 2018 (AFP)
The two men discussed "the military activity of NATO and Russia in Europe, reinforcing confidence and preventing incidents," the Russian defence ministry said i...
NATO not planning to boost military presence in Baltics
Apr 19, 2018 (AFP)
"Currently we are not planning to increase our military presence in the region, but what we are planning is to strengthen our ability to reinforce if needed," S...
NATO moves from Cold War bunker to glass and steel palace
Apr 19, 2018 (AFP)
The alliance is almost halfway through its move into the new building, with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg expected to shift to his new office at the end of...
Turkey to sack 3,000 more military over Gulen links
Apr 18, 2018 (AFP)
Turkish Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli said officials "discovered a nearly three-thousand strong structure" in the armed forces, state news agency Anadolu re...
Albania wants US military to establish presence: defense minister
Apr 17, 2018 (AFP)
Olta Xhacka, who met with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis at the Pentagon, said NATO member Albania wanted to push back against Russian "destabilization" efforts i...
US-Russia rocket cooperation 'shining example' of joint success
Apr 17, 2018 (Sputnik)
"Our joint cooperative programs between Russia and the US over the last 20 years have been a shining example of how our two countries can work to together to ac...
France's Macron won't 'break' Turkey-Russia alliance: Ankara
Apr 16, 2018 (AFP)
NATO allies, including France, have become wary of the flourishing friendship between Ankara and Moscow based on joint efforts to end the seven-year Syrian civi...
Watchdog: US environmental agency broke law with soundproof booth
Apr 16, 2018 (AFP)
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined the agency was wrong when it spent more than $40,000 on the project without first consulting C...
China, Japan vow 'new starting point' in ties
Apr 16, 2018 (AFP)
Welcoming Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi for a rare three-day visit, Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe called for warmer relations between the two countries and sai...
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