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At UN, tariff-targeted China denounces US 'bullying'

Apr 23, 2025 (AFP)

"Unilateralism is on the rise, and bullying practices run rampant... blatantly challenging the international order underpinned by international law (and) threat...

The U.S. cannot confront China alone, former Deputy Secretary of State warns

Apr 23, 2025 (UPI)

Kurt Campbell, National Security Council coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs under the administration of President Joe Biden, made the remarks in a keynote add...

Trump's policies will create Russian, Chinese strategic, economic coups

Apr 23, 2025 (UPI)

• Was Trump a full-on, recruited Russian agent? The answers are highly unlikely, with moderate confidence. • Was Trump a useful idiot/fellow traveler? The e...

Trump tariffs torch chances of meeting with China's Xi

Apr 22, 2025 (AFP)

Since taking office in January, Trump's maelstrom of import duties against friend and foe alike has rattled diplomats and pushed global markets to the brink of ...

Media hails 'groundbreaking' Pope Francis

Apr 22, 2025 (AFP)

Here is a selection of what Europe's press wrote. - Britain - The Guardian called Francis a "groundbreaking head of Catholic Church" who urged his fellow clergy...

As Dalai Lama approaches 90, Tibetans weigh future

Apr 21, 2025 (AFP)

For the charismatic Nobel Peace Prize-winning leader, his landmark birthday will be a time to encourage people to plan for an eventual future without him and ad...

'The voice of god': Filipinos wrestle with death of Pope Francis

Apr 21, 2025 (AFP)

Residents in the capital were still processing the news. Some rushed to cathedrals to pray while others who spoke to AFP were not yet aware of his passing. Outs...

Francis, a pope for the internet age

Apr 21, 2025 (AFP)

Yet the head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, who died on Monday, likewise regularly warned against the scourge of disinformation, and in recent years took...

Hegseth blames media, former 'disgruntled' workers for revelation of second Signal chat

Apr 21, 2025 (UPI)

Speaking to reporters from the White House South Portico with his children behind him during the annual Easter Egg Roll, Hegseth downplayed articles detailing h...

US officials split on Ukraine truce prospects

Apr 18, 2025 (AFP)

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Washington would "move on" from peace talks unless it saw progress soon. But speaking on a trip to Italy, US Vice Presi...

Rubio: U.S. 'done' with Ukraine-Russia peace talks if progress not made`

Apr 18, 2025 (UPI)

Rubio said the United States needs to determine very quickly -- in a matter of days -- whether or not ending the war "is doable" over the next few weeks. "If it...

Russia rains missiles on Ukraine as US mulls ending truce efforts

Apr 18, 2025 (AFP)

US President Donald Trump has been pressing Moscow and Kyiv to agree to a truce, but has failed to extract any major concessions from the Kremlin, despite repea...

US-China: the clash of the titans

Apr 17, 2025 (AFP)

- Geographic, demographic giants - With a surface area of more than nine million square kilometres (3.5 million square miles) each, the United States and China ...

Third top Pentagon official on leave after DoD's Signal group chat security breach

Apr 16, 2025 (UPI)

Colin Carroll, chief of staff to Deputy U.S. Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg, was suspended and put on an undetermined administrative leave following a DOD p...

Mackerel and missiles: EU-UK defence deal snags on fish

Apr 16, 2025 (AFP)

Yet, mackerel and missiles have become entangled in a tense diplomatic dance between London and Brussels that is causing friction ahead of a landmark EU-UK summ...

Macron to meet Rubio, Witkoff amid transatlantic tensions

Apr 16, 2025 (AFP)

Witkoff, who recently met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Rubio are heading to Paris for talks on ending the war in Ukraine, the State Department sai...

China's Xi begins Malaysia visit in shadow of Trump tariffs

Apr 15, 2025 (AFP)

Xi embarked this week on a Southeast Asia tour that has already taken him to Vietnam and will also include Cambodia, with Beijing trying to position itself as a...

Top Pentagon adviser placed on leave after leak investigation

Apr 15, 2025 (UPI)

Dan Caldwell, a top adviser to Hegseth, was escorted out by security and had his Pentagon access suspended over an "unauthorized disclosure," the official confi...

Beijing slams 'manipulation and hype' over Chinese soldiers captured in Ukraine

Apr 15, 2025 (AFP)

"China is verifying the relevant information and circumstances," foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said when asked about the prisoners of war. Beijing urged "...

Xi calls on China, Vietnam to 'oppose unilateral bullying' on regional tour

Apr 14, 2025 (AFP)

Xi is in Vietnam for the first leg of a Southeast Asia tour, with Beijing trying to present itself as a reliable alternative to an erratic US President Donald T...