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Turkey seks 30,000 new soldiers after post-coup purge: report
Nov 16, 2016 (AFP)
Turkey is seeking to recruit more than 30,000 new personnel to fill shortfalls after thousands were kicked out of the army in the wake of the failed July coup, ...
Maverick Macron enters French presidential race
Nov 16, 2016 (AFP)
Political outsider Emmanuel Macron joined the increasingly unpredictable race for France's presidency on Wednesday, vowing to take on "the same men and the same...
US troops train in Philippines despite Duterte threat
Nov 16, 2016 (AFP)
Filipino and US troops began training exercises this week, the Philippines military said Wednesday, despite President Rodrigo Duterte's threats to end joint war...
Chinese media praise Trump's 'experience and ideology'
Nov 15, 2016 (AFP)
Chinese state-run media lauded Donald Trump Tuesday after a phone call between him and President Xi Jinping, saying that the president-elect's emergence could m...
NATO chief 'certain' Trump will meet US commitments
Nov 15, 2016 (AFP)
NATO head Jens Stoltenberg on Tuesday said he was sure Donald Trump would live up to all US commitments to the alliance, just days after urging the president-el...
US-Philippines military cooperation intact: official
Nov 15, 2016 (AFP)
Military cooperation between the US and the Philippines is unchanged for now despite inflammatory statements from the Filipino president directed at US Presiden...
EU backs defence plan after Trump win fuelled fears
Nov 14, 2016 (AFP)
EU ministers approved a common defence plan on Monday despite sharp differences over how far it should go, as Donald Trump's election win stoked fears about Was...
Poland founds volunteer force with eye on Russia
Nov 14, 2016 (AFP)
Poland said Monday it will build a new territorial defence force of 53,000 volunteers by 2019, which it it announced with an eye on heading off any threat from ...
Trump gets 'arms around' foreign policy, talks to China's Xi
Nov 14, 2016 (AFP)
US President-elect Donald Trump has made his first call to the leader of China, and is "getting his arms around our foreign policy" as he prepares to assume the...
Obama on farewell tour to Europe fearful of 'Trump effect'
Nov 14, 2016 (AFP)
Barack Obama will travel Monday to Greece and Germany in a final official visit designed, in a strange bit of political contortion, at reassuring worried Europe...
EU ministers seek 'strong partnership' with Trump
Nov 13, 2016 (AFP)
European Union foreign ministers insisted on Sunday they expected good relations with Donald Trump, after a crisis meeting that Britain, France and Hungary snub...
UN chief confident Trump will drop rhetoric, show leadership
Nov 12, 2016 (AFP)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced confidence on Friday that Donald Trump will shed the strident rhetoric that propelled him to the White House and engage ...
NATO chief warns against 'going it alone'
Nov 12, 2016 (AFP)
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg issued a stark warning that "going it alone is not an option", in a pointed article in Britain's Observer newspaper Sunday following...
China ships sail near disputed islands: Japan
Nov 12, 2016 (AFP)
Chinese coast guard vessels sailed into territorial waters around disputed islands in the East China Sea on Saturday, Japan's coast guard said, marking the seco...
Hollande, Trump agree to try 'clarify positions'
Nov 11, 2016 (AFP)
US president-elect Donald Trump and French President Francois Hollande vowed in a telephone call Friday to try to "clarify positions" on potentially thorny issu...
US reinforcingtroops in Europe as planned
Nov 10, 2016 (AFP)
The United States is continuing to reinforce its military forces in Europe as planned, irrespective of President-elect Donald Trump's future intentions, the Pen...
Tug of war over China's founding father Sun Yat-sen
Nov 10, 2016 (AFP)
China's ruling party is marking the 150th birthday this week of the man who ended millennia of imperial rule by trumpeting republican revolutionary Sun Yat-sen ...
Isolationist Trump stokes NATO defence fears
Nov 10, 2016 (AFP)
Donald Trump's "America first" approach has Europe worried he may cut US commitments to NATO just as it mounts its biggest military build-up since the end of th...
New Chinese Interpol chief sparks rights concerns
Nov 10, 2016 (AFP)
A Chinese security official was elected president of Interpol Thursday for the first time, sparking criticism from activists who say Beijing uses the agency to ...
Trump victory provokes global shock and angst
Nov 09, 2016 (AFP)
Donald Trump's improbable victory in the US presidential election provoked global shock and angst on Wednesday over the implications for everything from trade t...
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