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US to provide Ukraine with 'enhanced defensive capabilities'
Dec 23, 2017 (AFP)
It also threatens to undermine President Donald Trump's calls for improved relations with Moscow. "The United States has decided to provide Ukraine enhanced def...
China mulls law to punish those who 'slander heroes and martyrs'
Dec 22, 2017 (AFP)
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) said on its website that it is examining a proposal on the "Protection of Heroes and Martyrs Law"...
Putin slams 'aggressive' new US defence strategy
Dec 22, 2017 (AFP)
But he said that although Russia must strive to develop a new and modern army it would not be drawn into a new arms race or aspire to be a "world policeman" and...
Vietnam rejects anti-China activist appeal
Dec 22, 2017 (AFP)
Vietnam's communist government has been accused of intensifying a crackdown on its critics in 2017, jailing at least 15 activists and handing down heavy jail te...
Japan unveils record defence budget against N. Korea threat
Dec 22, 2017 (AFP)
The defence spending was part of a $860-billion national budget for the fiscal year starting in April, also a record as medical and social welfare costs snowbal...
Britain, Poland sign defence treaty ahead of Brexit
Dec 21, 2017 (AFP)
"Our defence and security cooperation is already strong, but we have gone even further today in signing this landmark joint UK-Poland treaty on defence and secu...
India, China to hold talks on disputed borders: official
Dec 20, 2017 (AFP)
The foreign ministry said China's special representative on borders would meet his counterpart in New Delhi on Friday for the 20th meeting on the unresolved "bo...
Trump sends mixed message with 'America First' security strategy
Dec 19, 2017 (AFP)
Unveiling a text that pilloried both Russia and China as "revisionist powers" bent on rolling back American interests, Trump hailed recent counterterror coopera...
China, Russia slam US 'imperialist' and 'Cold War mentality'
Dec 19, 2017 (AFP)
The two global powerhouses hit back hours after the Trump administration unveiled its approach to the world with biting language framing Beijing and Moscow as g...
Japan eyes $46bn defence budget to counter N. Korea: report
Dec 16, 2017 (AFP)
The government is expected to set aside 5.19 trillion yen for defence in the country's initial budget proposal for the fiscal year starting April 2018, the Nikk...
China dismisses 'hype' over S. China Sea military buildup
Dec 15, 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 on ...
Fortified by family and China cash, Cambodia's strongman digs in
Dec 14, 2017 (AFP)
The 65-year-old is now the world's sixth longest-serving civilian leader, bumped up a place by last month's fall of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe. And his grip on th...
China summons Australian ambassador amid meddling row
Dec 14, 2017 (AFP)
"Officials of our ministry had an important dialogue with the Australian ambassador," foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said Thursday, without specifying when ...
EU launches defence pact it calls 'bad news for enemies'
Dec 14, 2017 (AFP)
Twenty-five countries -- all of the EU member states except Denmark, Malta and Britain, which is leaving the bloc -- are joining the so-called permanent structu...
NATO to complete move to new billion euro HQ by mid-June
Dec 13, 2017 (AFP)
The futuristic glass and steel structure of eight interlinked wings will replace a low-slung warren of drab 1960s prefab office units that was only meant to be ...
Canada authorizes export of automatic weapons to Ukraine
Dec 13, 2017 (AFP)
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, who is of Ukrainian descent through her mother, "announced that Canada will include Ukraine in the Automatic Firearm...
Trump signs $700B defense budget into law
Dec 12, 2017 (UPI)
The provisions in the 2018 NDAA includes measures like the establishment of a new U.S. Space Corps as a separate military service within the Department of the A...
Stoltenberg reappointed as NATO chief until 2020
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
The former Norwegian prime minister, who took the helm in October 2014, will lead the alliance into its next summit in Brussels in July with the North Korean nu...
China marks 80th anniversary of Nanjing massacre
Dec 12, 2017 (AFP)
Several thousand black-clad soldiers, civil servants and students with white flowers pinned to their jackets braved chilly temperatures at a monument to a dark ...
Erdogan says officials to meet to 'finalise' Russia defence deal
Dec 11, 2017 (AFP)
"Officials will come together in the coming week to finalise the necessary work on the S-400 issue. I wish them success," Erdogan said during a press conference...
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