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Philippines concerned over Chinese boats near disputed shoal

Sep 04, 2016 (AFP)

The Philippines has asked China to explain the increased presence of Chinese vessels near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, the defence sec...

Airport tiff highlights US-China value gap: Obama

Sep 04, 2016 (AFP)

A tarmac tiff between US and Chinese officials over media access highlighted the gap between views on human rights and press freedom, US President Barack Obama ...

EU, Turkey highlight ties, but coup differences remain

Sep 03, 2016 (AFP)

EU foreign ministers and Turkey on Saturday stressed the need to improve ties badly strained by July's failed coup but differences over Ankara's massive crackdo...

Lithuania sends ammunition to Ukraine to fight rebels

Sep 03, 2016 (AFP)

Lithuania has supplied 150 tonnes of ammunition to Ukrainian troops fighting pro-Russian separatists in the country's east, the Baltic NATO member said Saturday...

India gives Vietnam $500 mn for defence spending

Sep 03, 2016 (AFP)

India said Saturday it is giving Vietnam half a billion dollars in credit to boost defence ties, the latest security deal between the two nations seeking to cou...

Over 10,000 sacked in new Turkey post-coup purge

Sep 02, 2016 (AFP)

Turkey has sacked another 10,000 police officers, judges, prosecutors and academics, according to a decree published Friday, as the state continued a purge with...

EU army not 'any time soon': Mogherini

Sep 02, 2016 (AFP)

The EU is not going to get an army of its own in the near future but in the meantime it should play a greater security role, EU foreign affairs chief Federica M...

Turkey removes 8,000 security personnel in latest purge

Sep 02, 2016 (AFP)

Turkey removed nearly 8,000 security personnel from duty late Thursday, according to state media, as the purge continued of those suspected of links to the July...

Obama makes final trip to China, Southeast Asia

Sep 01, 2016 (AFP)

Barack Obama begins his 11th and final presidential trip to the Asia-Pacific in earnest on Friday, visiting China to nurture what has become arguably the world'...

Kerry says united with allies over South China Sea

Aug 31, 2016 (AFP)

The United States is united with its allies in upholding freedom of navigation rights in the South China Sea following a tribunal's decision on the contested wa...

Wary of Russia, Lithuania builds fake town to practice warfarew/lll

Aug 30, 2016 (AFP)

Lithuania on Tuesday opened a fake town featuring a school, sports stadium and shopping mall to practice urban warfare amid concerns over a militarily resurgent...

US, India bolster ties, warn Pakistan over extremists

Aug 30, 2016 (AFP)

The United States and India urged Pakistan Tuesday to do more to counter extremist groups operating from its soil as the world's two largest democracies announc...

Editor from top Turkish daily held in post-coup crackdown

Aug 30, 2016 (AFP)

Turkish authorities arrested an editor from the leading Hurriyet daily on Tuesday, continuing a sweep of the media triggered by last month's failed coup, the ne...

Kerry to meet India's leaders after defence pact sealed

Aug 30, 2016 (AFP)

Visiting US Secretary of State John Kerry began holding talks with India's top leaders Tuesday, after the world's two largest democracies signed an agreement st...

Vietnam says all will lose in any South China Sea war

Aug 30, 2016 (AFP)

Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang warned on Tuesday there would be no winners in any armed conflict sparked by territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Qu...

Obama, Erdogan to meet Sunday in China on G20 sidelines: WHouse

Aug 29, 2016 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama will meet his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday in China on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit, with Syria high ...

Japan takes aid show to Africa, in China's shadow

Aug 27, 2016 (AFP)

Japan takes its aid and trade show to Africa on Saturday, opening a huge two-day development conference in Kenya, hoping that quality will trump quantity in the...

China Communist party expels 'insatiable' statistics chief

Aug 26, 2016 (AFP)

The "morally bankrupt" former head of China's statistics bureau, responsible for calculating the country's economic figures, has been expelled from the ruling C...

Russia launches large snap military drills

Aug 25, 2016 (AFP)

Russia on Thursday launched large-scale snap military drills, putting its troops on full combat readiness in districts bordering Ukraine and the Baltic states, ...

Japan holds live fire drills at Mt Fuji

Aug 25, 2016 (AFP)

Japan's military on Thursday began four days of live-fire drills near Mount Fuji, an annual exercise that comes this year the day after North Korea test-fired a...