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Japan, US conduct live-fire drill amid regional tension

Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)

The drill, part of a 19-day exercise, came after a tense war of words between the United States and North Korea over Pyongyang's threats to fire missiles toward...

Pentagon adjusts to life under unpredictable commander-in-chief

Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)

President Donald Trump, in the middle of a working vacation, stood before cameras and said the United States was also mulling options against crisis-hit Venezue...

Iran chief of staff in Turkey for talks on Syria, Iraq

Aug 15, 2017 (AFP)

General Mohammad Hossein Bagheri is due to meet Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his three-day visit. He kicked off t...

US rallies LatAm on Venezuela after Trump military warning

Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)

US Vice President Mike Pence met in a church in Cartagena, Colombia with Venezuelan families who have fled their country's deadly crisis, as he wrapped up the f...

Poland 'centre of gravity' for US army in Europe: commander

Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)

"Poland has become for the United States Army the centre of gravity for everything that we're doing in terms of deterrence," General Ben Hodges, commander of US...

Now Chinese army takes aim at 'King of Glory'

Aug 14, 2017 (AFP)

Smartphone smash-hit "King of Glory" is so popular in China that its maker and internet giant Tencent last month began limiting daily playing times to "ensure c...

China tames 'grey rhinos' after foreign shopping sprees

Aug 13, 2017 (AFP)

Coined by an American policy analyst, the rhino reference points to long-visible threats that can charge suddenly and wreak havoc, as opposed to unforeseen "bla...

Estonia 'e-residency' offers Brexit Brits EU loophole

Aug 13, 2017 (AFP)

Using its knack for digital innovation to capitalise on the global explosion in e-commerce, the small cyber-savvy Baltic eurozone state became the first country...

India's army steps up troop level on China border: report

Aug 11, 2017 (AFP)

The "caution level" among the troops has also been raised, the Press Trust of India news agency said, quoting an unnamed government official. "The troop level a...

China protests after US warship sails near island

Aug 11, 2017 (AFP)

Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said the actions of the USS John S. McCain had violated Chinese and international law, "seriously" impairing the country'...

North Korea: Trump fire talk singes Tillerson's wings

Aug 10, 2017 (AFP)

This week US Secretary of State and diplomatic good cop Rex Tillerson was in southeast Asia, working with allies to isolate and cajole Kim Jong-Un's regime. Mea...

Talks the only way to resolve India-China row: Dalai Lama

Aug 09, 2017 (AFP)

"That (dialogue) is the only way," the Nobel peace laureate said in the Indian capital. "One side's retreat and defeat is an old-time thinking. In modern times,...

Guam: strategic island in the Pacific

Aug 09, 2017 (AFP)

North Korea said Wednesday that it is considering strikes near US installations in Guam with its intermediate range ballistic missiles, state news agency KCNA r...

China warns against stoking Korea tensions after Trump salvo

Aug 09, 2017 (AFP)

Calling the situation on the Korean Peninsula "complicated and sensitive", China's foreign ministry issued a statement warning that parties involved in the impa...

US, allies slam Chinese island-building

Aug 07, 2017 (AFP)

China claims nearly all of the sea, through which $5 trillion in annual shipping trade passes and which is believed to sit atop vast oil and gas deposits. Its s...

China scores diplomatic coup in sea row

Aug 06, 2017 (AFP)

After two days of tense meetings on the dispute in the Philippine capital, foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) i...

Vietnam challenges China at security talks

Aug 05, 2017 (AFP)

Ahead of the launch of the annual gathering of foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Vietnam made a bold play aga...

China ups ante in high-altitude standoff with India

Aug 05, 2017 (AFP)

For more than a month, Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a standoff on a remote but strategically important Himalayan plateau near where Tibet, Indi...

Vatican official says the Pope 'loves China'

Aug 04, 2017 (AFP)

"Pope Francis loves China and loves the people of China, its history and population," Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, a chancellor of the Vatican's Pontifical A...

Singapore to expel professor of Chinese descent for being 'foreign agent'

Aug 04, 2017 (AFP)

Huang Jing, a US citizen who held a senior position at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, had engaged in "activities inimical to Singapore's national int...