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Massive military parade for Xi as Hong Kong activists freed
Jun 30, 2017 (AFP)
The show of force came hours after activists were released from police custody following their arrest over a protest. Xi arrived in the city on Thursday to mark...
Beijing's South China Sea outposts nearly set for missile deployment
Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)
Analysing satellite photographs, the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative said Beijing's Fiery Cross Reef base in the Spratly Islands now has 12 hardened shelt...
Under US pressure, UN agrees on deep cuts to peacekeeping
Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)
Under the deal reached by a General Assembly budget committee, the United Nations will spend $7.3 billion on peacekeeping in the coming year, down from the curr...
Australia accused of spying on China: Chinese media
Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)
An employee of China's national security department told the Global Times that Australian intelligence agents "in disguise" collect information from Chinese peo...
US defence chief rebukes Putin for 'mischief'
Jun 28, 2017 (AFP)
Speaking to students in Germany to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Marshall Plan to rebuild World War II-ravaged Europe, Mattis said Russia had chosen t...
Provocateur Ai Weiwei taunts US with activist piece
Jun 28, 2017 (AFP)
"Trace," first shown at Alcatraz prison off the San Francisco Bay in 2014, opened Wednesday in Washington for a six-month run at the Hirshhorn museum. More than...
NATO says non-US 2017 defence spending to rise 4.3%
Jun 28, 2017 (AFP)
"In 2017 we foresee an even greater annual real increase of 4.3 percent. That is three consecutive years of accelerating defence spending," Stoltenberg told rep...
China protests alleged Indian border incursion
Jun 27, 2017 (AFP)
India and China have long been embroiled in a bitter border dispute at both ends of the Himalayas, with the two countries accusing soldiers of crossing over int...
Mongolian voters weigh love-hate relationship with China
Jun 24, 2017 (AFP)
A group of men had entered the event for Democratic Party candidate Khaltmaa Battulga on Friday carrying posters denouncing the businessman, prompting his suppo...
In blow to Britain, UN votes to seek legal opinion on Chagos fate
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
The Indian Ocean archipelago has been at the center of a decades-long dispute over Britain's decision to separate it from Mauritius in 1965 and set up a joint m...
US defense contractor accused of spying for China
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
The Justice Department said Kevin Mallory of Leesburg, Virginia had sold classified documents to Chinese intelligence agents on trips to Shanghai in March and A...
US heavily armed, but many ambivalent about it: survey
Jun 22, 2017 (AFP)
But the reality is much more complex, according to a survey released Thursday, which says gun violence is contributing to significant ambivalence even though it...
NATO jet approaches Russian defence minister's plane
Jun 21, 2017 (AFP)
A NATO fighter jet tried to approach Shoigu's plane but a Russian escort plane intervened to defend it, Interfax news agency reported, citing journalists accomp...
Russian jet conducts 'unsafe' intercept of US plane
Jun 20, 2017 (AFP)
"On June 19, a US RC-135U flying in international airspace over the Baltic Sea was intercepted by a Russian SU-27 Flanker," Europe Command spokesman Captain Jos...
NATO holds first war games on vulnerable Baltic corridor
Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)
The narrow stretch of the Polish-Lithuanian border is sandwiched between Russia's highly militarised Kaliningrad exclave and Belarus, a close Kremlin ally. Mili...
US working to relaunch military hotline with Russia
Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)
The so-called "deconfliction" line has been a vital tool in protecting both sides' forces as they conduct separate campaigns in Syria's crowded battlespace. "We...
China, Russia to hold joint naval drills in Baltic Sea
Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)
The three ships, headed by the Changsha destroyer, will link up with Russian vessels for drills near St Petersburg and Kaliningrad, Chinese state media reported...
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines launch naval patrols
Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)
The "trilateral coordinated maritime patrol" was launched amid continuing battles between Philippine troops and Islamist gunmen loyal to the Islamic State group...
Saudi says it does not need Turkish military base
Jun 17, 2017 (AFP)
The statement came after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reportedly said he had offered to build a military base in the Muslim kingdom shortly after work...
New Trump-era US-China dialogue set for June 21
Jun 15, 2017 (AFP)
North Korea's nuclear weapons program is likely to top the agenda for next week's talks, which follow Pentagon chief Jim Mattis's assurances to Asian allies tha...
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