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EU faces double whammy of political turmoil in Italy, Spain
Aug 02, 2013 (UPI)
Europe's southern eurozone faces the double whammy of political turmoil in Italy and Spain where both governments are at risk of being toppled by corruption sca...
Outside View: Tymoshenko, Ukraine and the EU
Aug 01, 2013 (UPI)
By all indications, perhaps one of the most critical decisions the European Union will ever make is coming down to the wire: Either the European Union will take...
NATO and the phantom menace: a pretext for global expansion
Aug 01, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Upcoming NATO military exercises envisage an attack on Poland and an Article 5 NATO intervention against a foreign power, to the dismay of Russia, these exercis...
Russia calls on NATO to review Cold War methods of arms control
Aug 01, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Russia's deputy defense minister has suggested updating the agreements on conventional weapons control, which no longer match the political situation and the ef...
New Chinese game lets players retake disputed islands
Aug 01, 2013 (AFP)
A military-backed Chinese video game released Thursday allows players to satisfy their patriotism by fighting enemy forces in islands disputed with Japan, refle...
Military headed towards arbitrary cuts: Pentagon
Aug 01, 2013 (AFP)
Despite the creation of a roadmap for budget reductions, the US military will have to make arbitrary, automatic cuts for several years, the Pentagon's second-in...
Philippines says US spy planes monitoring China at sea
Jul 31, 2013 (AFP)
The Philippines said Wednesday that US spy planes were providing crucial intelligence on Chinese military activities in disputed areas of the South China Sea. U...
Outside View: An All-American agenda
Jul 31, 2013 (UPI)
This column advances what the United States must do to get its domestic house in order. There are probably a million reasons why this won't work, yet, if Americ...
China rules out leaders' summit with Japan: state media
Jul 30, 2013 (AFP)
Beijing has ruled out any imminent leaders' summit with Tokyo, Chinese state-run media said Tuesday after a Japanese official raised the possibility, in a rebuf...
Japan's Abe vows to help Philippines amid China row
Jul 27, 2013 (AFP)
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to strengthen the Philippines' maritime defence capabilities on Saturday, while reassuring neighbours about Tokyo's in...
China coastguard raises Japan island row temperature
Jul 26, 2013 (AFP)
The Chinese coastguard entered waters disputed with Japan for the first time Friday, straining an already tense situation as Tokyo mulled plans to establish a U...
France, Germany call for closer EU military cooperation
Jul 26, 2013 (AFP)
France and Germany called for "innovative" ways to boost European military cooperation in a letter Friday to EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton ahead of ...
Belarus F.M.: Minsk wants to cooperate on EU Eastern Partnership
Jul 25, 2013 (UPI)
Belarus, seen as a human rights pariah, is seeking to cooperate with the European Union in its eastern integration process, Minsk's foreign minister says. Vladi...
JFK's sole survivor named ambassador to Japan
Jul 25, 2013 (AFP)
President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Caroline Kennedy to become US ambassador to Japan, in the biggest foray into public service for John F. Kennedy's ...
Chinese firm to build $1.4 bln Sri Lanka city complex
Jul 24, 2013 (AFP)
Sri Lanka has signed a deal with a Chinese company to build a $1.4 billion city complex on reclaimed land near the harbour of the capital Colombo, an official s...
Outside View: Backbone needed now
Jul 24, 2013 (UPI)
Resurrection is a popular metaphor often promiscuously applied to fallen or disgraced athletes, politicians, celebrities and, of course, religion. But few entit...
Outside View: The slog ahead for Japan's Abe
Jul 24, 2013 (UPI)
The ruling Japanese Liberal Democratic Party's landslide victory in the Upper House elections was effectively a referendum about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's eco...
China's Li says 7% 'bottom line' for growth: report
Jul 23, 2013 (AFP)
China's economic growth must not slip below the "bottom line" of seven percent, Premier Li Keqiang was quoted as saying by a state-backed newspaper on Tuesday. ...
Airport bomb exposes public anger at China abuse
Jul 23, 2013 (AFP)
A bombing at Beijing airport by a wheelchair-bound man who complained for years about police brutality spotlights how frustration over low-level abuses in China...
India, China officials hold border talks after stand-off
Jul 23, 2013 (AFP)
Officials from India and China held talks Tuesday on steps to strengthen "peace and tranquillity" along their border, following a stand-off in May over troop mo...
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