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S. Korea's Moon seeks rapprochement in China visit
Dec 11, 2017 (AFP)
Seoul and Washington decided to install the powerful US THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) system in the South earlier this year to guard against threa...
Sri Lanka hands over debt-laden port to Chinese owner
Dec 09, 2017 (AFP)
The $1.12 billion deal first announced in July lets a Chinese state company take over the southern port of Hambantota, which straddles the world's busiest east-...
US warns Russia over Ukraine at OSCE meeting
Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)
Diplomats had hoped that meetings on the sidelines of the 57-nation body would make progress on agreeing terms for a UN peacekeeping force for war-torn Ukraine....
Pentagon braces for possible government shutdown
Dec 07, 2017 (AFP)
The US government is facing the looming prospect of shutting down as Republicans and Democrats wrangle over federal spending. Top leaders from both parties were...
Trump aide Flynn planned to 'rip up' Russia sanctions: whistleblower
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
According to a whistleblower who contacted the lawmaker, the businessman said Flynn had told him that sanctions on Russia would be "ripped up" as a priority in ...
'We don't interfere in elections': NATO chief on Putin seeking new term
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
Putin, in power for the past 18 years, confirmed he would run in the March presidential election, where he is expected to win easily and become the longest-serv...
China slams Australia amid growing foreign interference fears
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull on Tuesday announced wide-ranging reforms to tackle rising concerns of foreign interference, noting "disturbing reports" about Ch...
Former Polish military counterintelligence chief detained
Dec 06, 2017 (AFP)
General Piotr Pytel was accused earlier this year, along with his predecessor Janusz Nosek, of overstepping his duties by signing a cooperation agreement with R...
Dozens of Japan MPs visit controversial war shrine
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe refrained from sending an offering, as he has done in the past, a shrine official told AFP. There were no ministers among the group, a...
Under-fire Tillerson flies US flag in sceptical Europe
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
In Brussels for talks with EU and NATO leaders, Tillerson was confronted by mounting concern that President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda has weakened t...
Tillerson meets EU, NATO leaders under cloud
Dec 05, 2017 (AFP)
Tillerson will hold talks over lunch with European Union foreign ministers and the bloc's diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini, before a two-day NATO meeting set...
New Australia laws to deal with foreign political meddling
Dec 04, 2017 (AFP)
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ordered an inquiry in June after media revelations that the nation's spy agency had warned the country's political elite two yea...
Brigitte Macron fetes first panda born in France
Dec 04, 2017 (AFP)
The male cub was the first ever born in France where its mother has been on loan from China since 2012, as part of Beijing's "panda diplomacy". The 64-year-old ...
Under Trump's shadow, Tillerson heads for Europe
Dec 03, 2017 (AFP)
But as he prepares to set off Monday for Brussels, Vienna and Paris, his authority to speak for Washington has been called into question by a rift with Presiden...
US battles for global push on N.Korea amid Russia, China doubts
Dec 01, 2017 (AFP)
The stakes could scarcely be higher in the stand-off, after the US warned that Kim Jong-Un's regime would be "utterly destroyed" if its pursuit of a long-range ...
Ukraine plans NATO, EU referendums in 'near future'
Dec 01, 2017 (AFP)
"We are fully sticking to our path towards European integration," Poroshenko said in remarks broadcast by several Ukrainian television stations. "Have no doubt ...
Turkey detains 50 over links to group blamed for coup bid
Nov 30, 2017 (AFP)
Prosecutors in the northwestern city of Eskisehir issued arrest warrants for 66 people as part of a probe into followers of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gul...
Obama to work for better US-China ties: state media
Nov 30, 2017 (AFP)
Obama met Xi on Wednesday in Beijng at Diaoyutai Guest House, a sprawling complex frequently used to house visiting leaders. Obama was in China as part of a wor...
Turkish police move to arrest 333 soldiers over Gulen links
Nov 29, 2017 (AFP)
The Istanbul public prosecutor issued arrest warrants for 360 people as part of a probe into followers of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen in the Turkish ...
US vows to help Europe repel Russian aggression
Nov 28, 2017 (AFP)
Next week Washington's top diplomat will attend ministerial meetings of the NATO alliance in Brussels and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europ...
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