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EU 'hearts still open' to Brexit reversal
Jan 16, 2018 (AFP)
The comments by EU President Donald Tusk, European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and others weighed into a debate in Britain about holding a second Brexit refe...
FBI warned Kushner on Murdoch ex-wife: report
Jan 16, 2018 (AFP)
Citing unidentified sources familiar with the matter, the Journal said US officials were also concerned that the ex-wife of media magnate Rupert Murdoch -- who ...
Japan says China sent nuclear-powered sub to disputed isles
Jan 15, 2018 (AFP)
Tokyo's statement comes on the same day that China announced three of its "Coast Guard vessels conducted a patrol in territorial waters off the Diaoyu Islands,"...
Key moments in year one of the Trump presidency
Jan 15, 2018 (AFP)
- Travel ban: the legal saga - Out of the blue, one week after taking office, Trump decreed a 90-day ban on arrivals of people from seven Muslim majority countr...
India vows to handle China's 'assertiveness'
Jan 12, 2018 (AFP)
The nuclear-armed neighbours have in the past gone to war over their border and last year were involved in a showdown over a Himalayan plateau claimed by China ...
India steps up China border patrols, vows to handle 'assertiveness'
Jan 12, 2018 (AFP)
The nuclear-armed neighbours have in the past gone to war over their border and last year were involved in a showdown over a Himalayan plateau claimed by China ...
Japan protests after Chinese frigate sails near disputed isles
Jan 11, 2018 (AFP)
Japan's vice minister for foreign affairs Shinsuke Sugiyama summoned Chinese ambassador Cheng Yonghua to voice Tokyo's concerns, as the two Asian giants explore...
Macron urges European unity to face rising China
Jan 10, 2018 (AFP)
Macron, who has become the leading voice of the European Union, endorsed President Xi Jinping's massive $1 trillion programme to revive ancient Silk Road tradin...
India to court ASEAN leaders as it seeks edge over China
Jan 10, 2018 (AFP)
India will host the leaders at a commemorative summit on January 25 to mark a quarter century of ties with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), t...
Philippines to protest over China activity on reclaimed reef
Jan 09, 2018 (AFP)
Beijing claims nearly all of the sea and has been turning reefs in the Spratly and Paracel chains into islands, installing military facilities and equipment on ...
Macron endorses China's Silk Road but warns against 'hegemony'
Jan 08, 2018 (AFP)
Macron, on the first day of a state visit, also called on Europe and China to team up on curbing climate change in the face of the US decision to withdraw from ...
Macedonia PM sees solution to Greece name dispute by July
Jan 07, 2018 (AFP)
"I believe it's possible to find a solution by the end of the first semester of 2018," Zaev told Greece's Alpha TV in an interview. The quarrel between Skopje a...
Spain king pays homage to father Juan Carlos in comeback
Jan 06, 2018 (AFP)
Appearing in full military garb alongside his son, Queen Letizia and his wife Sofia at the royal palace in Madrid, Juan Carlos met Spain's army, navy and airfor...
'Don't fear death': China's Xi urges blunt call to PLA
Jan 05, 2018 (AFP)
Xi's exhortation to the world's largest fighting force, parts of which were revealed only late Thursday, came during what state media characterised as a rare ad...
China boosts investment in Sri Lankan mega-project
Jan 02, 2018 (AFP)
The deal follows an earlier Chinese investment of $1.4 billion to carry out reclamation work for the wider Colombo International Financial City development, str...
China's Xi vows to support UN, boost living standards
Dec 31, 2017 (AFP)
Xi said the nation was committed to economic reforms in 2018, the 40th anniversary of the transformation led by Deng Xiaoping, "as reform and opening-up is the ...
Canada's G7 presidency: a 'progressive agenda' at risk
Dec 30, 2017 (AFP)
For Justin Trudeau, this presidency comes at a time when his government has been struggling with a difficult renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agre...
Tillerson defends foreign policy record at year's end
Dec 28, 2017 (AFP)
In an opinion piece in the New York Times, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said some 90 percent of Pyongyang's export earnings had been cut off by a series of ...
British navy frigate escorts Russian warship in North Sea
Dec 26, 2017 (AFP)
The HMS St Albans monitored the Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov in the North Sea, "keeping track of its activity in areas of national interest," it said in a s...
China island expansion moves ahead in South China Sea
Dec 25, 2017 (AFP)
Beijing claims nearly all of the sea and has been turning reefs in the Spratly and Paracel chains into islands, installing military facilities and equipment in ...
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