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US says Nauru switching ties from Taiwan to China 'disappointing'
Jan 16, 2024 (AFP)
Self-ruled Taiwan held a crucial poll Saturday, with voters electing pro-sovereignty candidate Lai Ching-te as the island's next president. China -- which consi...
Zelensky says 'predator' Putin won't accept frozen conflict
Jan 16, 2024 (AFP)
Moscow's invasion of Ukraine -- nearing its two-year anniversary -- has triggered fierce and costly fighting but the front line has barely shifted in the last y...
China bids to woo back global elites at Davos forum
Jan 16, 2024 (AFP)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is also attending the World Economic Forum in person for the first time since Russia's invasion in 2022, hoping to drum u...
UK announces biggest military deployment to NATO exercises in decades
Jan 15, 2024 (AFP)
The deployment, which Shapps characterised as the UK's biggest to NATO in four decades, is aimed at "providing vital reassurance" over the "menace" posed by Rus...
Greece must prepare for 'instability' after Erdogan: minister
Jan 14, 2024 (AFP)
"What will happen to Turkey when Erdogan is gone? We don't know. Turkey is not a static country," Nikos Dendias told Kathimerini daily in an interview. "There i...
Maldives tells India to withdraw troops by March as row deepens
Jan 14, 2024 (AFP)
New Delhi considers the Indian Ocean archipelago to be within its sphere of influence, but the Maldives has shifted into the orbit of China -- its largest exter...
Maldives won't be bullied, president says as India row deepens
Jan 14, 2024 (AFP)
New Delhi considers the Indian Ocean archipelago to be within its sphere of influence but the country has shifted to China's orbit, the Maldives's largest exter...
China's military says will 'crush' any Taiwan 'independence' efforts
Jan 12, 2024 (AFP)
"The Chinese People's Liberation Army maintains high vigilance at all times and will take all necessary measures to firmly crush 'Taiwan independence' attempts ...
China's Xi says supports Maldives in protecting 'sovereignty': state media
Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)
Muizzu was elected in September as a proxy for a pro-China predecessor jailed on corruption charges, vowing to cultivate "strong ties" with Beijing. This week h...
China calls Taiwan poll frontrunner a 'severe danger' days from crucial vote
Jan 11, 2024 (AFP)
Democratic Taiwan is two days from a pivotal election that is being watched from Beijing to Washington because the next president will determine the island's fu...
White House voices support for Austin despite not knowing about hospitalization
Jan 09, 2024 (UPI)
To reporters on Monday, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said President Joe Biden's main focus is on Austin's healt...
Biden not told for a month of defense chief cancer: White House
Jan 09, 2024 (AFP)
"He was informed by the chief of staff earlier this morning," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told a briefing. Austin was diagnosed early Decembe...
China's top diplomat says ties with US 'stabilised' last year
Jan 09, 2024 (AFP)
Beijing and Washington have butted heads in recent years on flashpoint issues from technology and trade to human rights, as well as tensions over Taiwan and com...
Chinese official lauds US cooperation, walks back 'wolf warrior' talk
Jan 09, 2024 (AFP)
At an event to mark 45 years since Washington and Beijing established relations, Liu Jianchao, who heads the international division of the Chinese Communist Par...
House Republicans launch formal inquiry into Defense secretary's hospitalization
Jan 09, 2024 (UPI)
In a letter to Austin on Tuesday, the chair of the House Armed Services Committee Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Ala., demanded answers about the Defense secretary's New Y...
White House rejects calls for defense chief to go
Jan 08, 2024 (AFP)
"The president has complete confidence, continues to have confidence in Secretary Austin," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters travelling with Bid...
Officials rankled over delayed reports of Austin's hospitalization
Jan 07, 2024 (UPI)
Austin's hospitalization for "severe pain" was only revealed after several days, ABC News reported. In a statement initially provided exclusively to ABC News, M...
US defense chief pledges transparency after hospitalization
Jan 07, 2024 (AFP)
The Pentagon waited until Friday evening to announce that Austin, 70, had been hospitalized four days prior "for complications following a recent elective medic...
India, China eye strategic areas bordering 'last barrier' Bhutan
Jan 05, 2024 (AFP)
But as Bhutan readies to elect a new parliament in Thimphu on January 9, China and India are watching the contest with keen interest as they eye strategic conte...
Deadly Russian strikes pound Ukraine cities
Jan 02, 2024 (AFP)
The attacks on the capital Kyiv and the northeastern city of Kharkiv came less than 24 hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would intensify ...
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