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Philippines foils 'anti-China' bombing plot: govt

Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)

Three men arrested over a foiled attempt to bomb the Philippine capital's airport were also planning to attack the Chinese embassy and one of Manila's biggest m...

Ukraine crisis forces NATO back to basics in Europe

Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)

The Ukraine crisis is forcing NATO back to the basics of collective defence in Europe as Russia seeks to restore influence in its Soviet era backyard, analysts ...

China calls for Britain to scrap Hong Kong inquiry: report

Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)

Chinese authorities have demanded Britain drop an inquiry into the progress of democratic reforms in Hong Kong, accusing it of "highly inappropriate" interferen...

Top Obama national security aide to visit China

Sep 02, 2014 (AFP)

US President Barack Obama's top national security aide will visit Beijing next week, with tensions between the Pacific powers aggravated by an incident between ...

War could spread beyond Ukraine, warns Poland's Tusk

Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)

Poland's Prime Minister Donald warned on Monday that the war in eastern Ukraine risks spreading if NATO does not toughen its stance quickly. Tusk, tipped as the...

Kiev warns of 'great war' with Russia as its forces retreat

Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)

Ukrainian forces ceded a strategic eastern airport to pro-Russian insurgents on Monday as the government in Kiev accused Moscow of launching a "great war" that ...

'Up to 15,000 Russian soldiers' sent to Ukraine, say rights groups

Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)

Up to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been sent to Ukraine over the past two months, and at least 200 may have died in combat there, rights groups told AFP on Mond...

Obama to spell out message to Putin on former Soviet land

Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)

Setting the stage for a NATO summit dominated by the worst East-West tensions in decades, President Barack Obama will go to Estonia this week with a simple mess...

Fidel Castro compares NATO to Nazis, lashes out at US

Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)

Cuban ex-president Fidel Castro lashed out at the United States and Europe on Monday, accusing them of war-mongering and comparing the NATO military alliance's ...

India, Japan PMs to boost defence ties amid China tensions

Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)

Conservative soulmates Narendra Modi and Shinzo Abe will hold formal talks in Tokyo Monday to cement a blossoming relationship between India and Japan, on a vis...

China universities vow ideology clampdown on staff, students

Sep 01, 2014 (AFP)

Three top Chinese universities have vowed to tighten "ideological" control over students and teachers, as a wider clampdown on free expression in the country in...

Rebels seize ground as West claims Russia army is in Ukraine

Aug 28, 2014 (AFP)

Rebels in east Ukraine appear to have seized swathes of territory from retreating government forces, while Western intelligence says Russian army units are oper...

Russia violates Finnish airspace three times in a week: ministry

Aug 28, 2014 (AFP)

Finland said on Thursday that its airforce would step-up "reconnaissance flights" after three violations of its airspace by Russian jets in less than a week. Ac...

NATO says 'over 1,000 Russian troops' in Ukraine

Aug 28, 2014 (AFP)

A senior NATO official said on Thursday that "well over a thousand" Russian troops were operating inside Ukraine and warned that the West faced a "very aggressi...

Army wives urge Russia to come clean on soldiers in Ukraine

Aug 28, 2014 (AFP)

Several dozen women gathered outside a military base in central Russia on Thursday to demand that commanders come clean about the whereabouts of their husbands ...

US military to send tanks to E. Europe for drills

Aug 28, 2014 (AFP)

US Army troops equipped with tanks will head to Eastern Europe soon to reassure NATO allies anxious over Russia's intervention in Ukraine, Pentagon officials sa...

China defence ministry tells US to stop 'close-in' surveillance

Aug 28, 2014 (AFP)

China's military on Thursday told the United States to end air and naval surveillance near its borders, saying it was damaging relations between the Pacific pow...

Japan seeks to double budget for disputed islands patrol

Aug 28, 2014 (AFP)

Japan's coastguard is to ask for a doubling of its budget to boost patrols around islands that are the focus of a dispute with China, officials said Thursday. T...

China's Xi meets Vietnam envoy amid strained ties

Aug 27, 2014 (AFP)

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday held talks with a top Vietnamese envoy and said the two countries should repair strained relations, state media report...

Taiwan says Chinese patrol aircraft entered its airspace

Aug 26, 2014 (AFP)

Taiwan's air force scrambled fighter jets to track two Chinese Y-8 maritime patrol aircraft which intruded into the island's airspace, a senior air force office...