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Russia says 'fortifying' annexed Crimean peninsula
Nov 18, 2022 (AFP)
"Fortification work is being carried out on the territory of Crimea under my control with the aim of guaranteeing the security of all Crimeans," the Moscow-appo...
Harris to visit Philippines in show of US support on China
Nov 16, 2022 (AFP)
Harris will visit the western island province of Palawan on Tuesday as part of a two-nation Asia trip that includes filling in for President Joe Biden at an Asi...
Sunak-Xi meeting at G20 cancelled: Downing Street
Nov 16, 2022 (AFP)
"The meeting has been cancelled because of scheduling issues," a spokeswoman for the prime minister told AFP. The meeting, announced Tuesday evening, was to be ...
India at 75: Melting glaciers, heatwaves and climate crisis
Nov 16, 2022 (AFP)
But the ice at the end of the arduous journey is receding rapidly and portends an increasingly dry future for a country of 1.4 billion people facing existential...
China's Xi returns to global stage at G20 after Covid isolation
Nov 15, 2022 (AFP)
President Xi strode into Tuesday's G20 summit the morning after a three-hour meeting with his US counterpart Joe Biden in which they promised to dial down the r...
Macron urges more Chinese pressure to end Ukraine war
Nov 15, 2022 (AFP)
The two leaders held talks just before the opening of the G20 summit in Indonesia, Bali, where Moscow is under pressure over its eight-month invasion and its di...
Xi urges better ties in rare summit with Australia
Nov 15, 2022 (AFP)
After years of animosity that hampered trade ties and froze top-level meetings, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the meeting had been "positive and construc...
Biden and Xi reassure world but US, China still on collision course: experts
Nov 14, 2022 (AFP)
After three hours of talks in Bali, Biden said there need not be a new Cold War between the two powers and Xi told him that China was not challenging the intern...
Who will China's Xi meet this week and what's at stake?
Nov 14, 2022 (AFP)
Fresh from securing a norm-breaking third term as Communist Party leader, Xi will have the wind at his back as he prepares to meet a string of powerful dignitar...
Biden, Xi seek to avoid conflict at first US-China summit in years
Nov 14, 2022 (AFP)
Xi and Biden shook hands in front of the two nations' flags before starting a long-awaited sit down on the Indonesian resort of Bali ahead of a Group of 20 summ...
Lavrov 'in good health' after hospital checks on G20 summit eve
Nov 14, 2022 (AFP)
Russia called reports Lavrov had been hospitalised "the highest level of fake" and Moscow's foreign ministry spokeswoman posted a video of the 72-year-old diplo...
UK's new PM heads to G20 with veiled attack on China
Nov 13, 2022 (AFP)
After becoming the UK's third premier this year, Sunak is set to have his first bilateral meetings with US President Joe Biden and other world leaders at the su...
Russia says US driving Southeast Asian militarisation
Nov 13, 2022 (AFP)
Sergei Lavrov was speaking to reporters at Phnom Penh's airport after attending the East Asia Summit in Cambodia -- and before flying to Bali for the G20 summit...
As Biden returns to table with Xi, US views darken on Chinese leader
Nov 12, 2022 (AFP)
"The trajectory of the relationship is nothing but positive," Biden told businesspeople who came to see the two vice presidents at a Beijing hotel, voicing "gre...
EU chief urges China to push Moscow to respect international law
Nov 12, 2022 (AFP)
The European Council president was speaking on the sidelines of a regional summit in Cambodia, where Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged Southeast As...
Biden and Xi to meet at G20 summit
Nov 11, 2022 (AFP)
The leaders of the world's two biggest economies have spoken by phone multiple times since Biden became president in January 2021. But the Covid-19 pandemic and...
Turkey seeks Central Asia inroads with Russia distracted
Nov 11, 2022 (AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will preside over the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) summit in Uzbekistan's historic city of Samarkand. Erdogan has ...
Chinese incursions into India are increasing, strategically planned
Nov 11, 2022 (SPX)
Led by Northwestern University, Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands and the Netherlands Defence Academy, the authors assembled a new dataset, compi...
White House says Biden, Xi to meet at G20 summit as Putin stays home
Nov 10, 2022 (AFP)
The two met prior to Biden taking office and have spoken by phone a number of times over the past 22 months, but the Covid-19 pandemic and Xi's aversion to fore...
Swedish foreign minister to go to Turkey 'shortly' in NATO bid
Nov 10, 2022 (AFP)
"Sweden is working diligently towards a quick and seamless entry into NATO," Billstrom told a press conference in Berlin after meeting Germany's foreign ministe...
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