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Xi applauds Putin re-election, hails 'best level' ties
Mar 19, 2018 (AFP)
Putin won in a landslide on Sunday, one day after China's parliament unanimously re-appointed Xi to a second term. Xi has drawn comparison with Putin as the Chi...
Putin cruises to landslide election win
Mar 18, 2018 (AFP)
Putin, who has ruled Russia for almost two decades, recorded his best ever election performance with more than 76 percent of the vote, but the opposition cried ...
NATO chief says spy attack must have 'consequences'
Mar 15, 2018 (AFP)
Stoltenberg said the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter, which he called the first offensive use of a nerve agent on the alliance's territory since it...
NATO urges Russia to answer UK questions on spy poisoning
Mar 14, 2018 (AFP)
The joint statement by the 29 member countries of the US-led alliance said the attack against Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, southwest Engl...
Pentagon chief Mattis: voice of moderation in Trump's cabinet
Mar 14, 2018 (AFP)
The 67-year-old four-star Marine general had forged a front with Tillerson to curb Trump's most extreme tendencies, like making a sudden break with traditional ...
Trump says top diplomat Tillerson out, names Pompeo successor
Mar 13, 2018 (AFP)
A senior US official said the president wanted to reshuffle his team ahead of talks with North Korea. "Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Sec...
UK, allies point finger at Russia in ex-spy poisoning
Mar 13, 2018 (AFP)
As diplomatic tensions soar, Russia has denied accusations of its involvement in the attack on Sergei Skripal and his daughter in southwest England on March 4. ...
Putin: villain abroad, hero at home
Mar 11, 2018 (AFP)
But despite -- or because of -- his reputation abroad, Vladimir Putin is still widely popular in Russia and is all but guaranteed to win a presidential election...
Xi's life mandate seals march of the strongmen
Mar 11, 2018 (AFP)
China's rubber-stamp parliament, meeting in the imposing Great Hall of the People for an annual session, made Xi the most powerful leader since Mao Zedong on Su...
Putin's sabre-rattling raises tensions with West ahead of vote
Mar 11, 2018 (AFP)
The 65-year-old former KGB officer is all but guaranteed to extend his rule until 2024 in a presidential election on March 18 that follows an anaemic campaign p...
Military vehicles to roll through Washington in parade
Mar 10, 2018 (AFP)
The White House announced a month ago that Trump had asked for a large-scale military parade, an unconventional call that immediately fueled comparisons with si...
Modi, Macron sign key security deal with an eye on China
Mar 10, 2018 (AFP)
"Defence cooperation between the two countries now has a new significance," Macron said as a gushing Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood by his side. Under the d...
UK deploys military in Russia spy attack probe
Mar 09, 2018 (AFP)
Police extended the cordon around the modest suburban home of Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, the quiet city in southwestern England where he and his daughter Yuli...
China not trying to 'replace America': foreign minister
Mar 08, 2018 (AFP)
Pledging that China had no desire to "replace America" on the global stage, Wang Yi said the Asian nation's path "is totally different than the one that has alr...
US agencies need to join efforts against Russia: general
Mar 08, 2018 (AFP)
US General Curtis Scaparrotti told lawmakers that Russia is working to break up the NATO alliance, partly through its online operations to spread false informat...
Putin's speech was to send a clear message to the US
Mar 07, 2018 (Sputnik)
Sputnik discussed this with Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, Senior Fellow and Head of the Nuclear and Space Policy Initiative at Observer Research Foundation....
Chinese grumble about 'emperor' as congress fetes Xi
Mar 06, 2018 (AFP)
Belying Communist Party claims that "the masses" unanimously support the removal of presidential term limits, many Chinese like Li have disregarded censors to c...
US carrier on historic Vietnam visit amid sea rift with China
Mar 05, 2018 (AFP)
The USS Carl Vinson will make a four-day port call to the central city of Danang for a highly symbolic trip that will include a visit to a centre for victims of...
China downplays lifting of presidential term limit
Mar 04, 2018 (AFP)
The National People's Congress (NPC), China's rubber-stamp parliament, will vote on March 11 on constitutional amendments which include the scrapping of a rule ...
Trump praises China's Xi for lifetime mandate extension
Mar 04, 2018 (AFP)
Trump seemed to jokingly muse over making such power consolidation moves himself, according to audio from the closed-door event at his Mar-a-Lago resort publish...
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