BEIJING: The United States and China looked to set up a safety net for their intensifying rivalry during a visit to Beijing by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, but the trip achieved only general promises and no breakthroughs on hoped-for military talks and flashpoint issues. Both President Xi Jinping, who […]
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BERLIN: Chancellor Olaf Scholz hosts Premier Li Qiang for talks on Tuesday (Jun 20), seeking to recalibrate cooperation between Germany and China after Berlin branded Beijing a “systemic rival”. Li is on his first trip abroad since he was named premier in March and tasked with shoring up China’s sputtering […]
LONDON: Britain’s King Charles III Charles inspected the troops at his inaugural birthday parade on horseback on Saturday (Jun 17), the first time the monarch has ridden at the event since his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1986. The annual Trooping the Colour parade marks the British sovereign’s official birthday. […]
MOSCOW: Russia on Saturday (Jun 17) said it had destroyed three drones targeting an oil refinery in the southern border region of Bryansk, as Ukraine pursues its counteroffensive against Russian forces. “Russian air defence systems repelled an overnight attack by the Ukrainian armed forces on the ‘Druzhba’ oil refinery in […]
SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said today the government would block the construction of a new Russian embassy near the country’s parliament, citing threats to national security. Russia currently holds the lease for a parcel of land near Parliament House in Australia’s capital Canberra, where it had planned to […]
Ukraine’s capital Kyiv has been attacked from the air by Russia for the ninth time this month. One person has been killed and two more wounded in a missile strike on Odesa, a Black Sea port city in the south west, officials say. Blasts were also heard in central regions […]
MANILA: The Philippines and China pledged on Saturday (Apr 22) to work together to resolve their maritime differences in the South China Sea, where the two have competing claims, and to deepen bilateral ties. Talks between the countries’ foreign ministers mark the latest in a series of high-level meetings between […]
TOKYO, April 15 — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated from a port in Wakayama after a blast was heard, but he was unharmed in the incident, local media reported today. Several reports, including by Kyodo news agency, said an apparent “smoke bomb” had been thrown but there were […]
NEW YORK: Former President Donald Trump says he’s not making much money from his social media network but estimates it is worth between US$5 million and US$25 million, according to his personal financial disclosure form filed Friday (Apr 14). He owns about 90 per cent of his social media company, […]
LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet Joe Biden in Northern Ireland next week when the US president flies in to take part in events to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace accord. Having helped broker the 1998 deal, the United States remains an influential voice […]