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China confirms invited to join Trump's 'Board of Peace'
Jan 20, 2026 (AFP)
"China has received the United States' invitation," foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun told a regular news briefing, without specifying whether Beijing would...
Almost half of Kyiv without heat, power, after Russian attack
Jan 20, 2026 (AFP)
The barrage of hundreds of drones and missiles, which targeted energy facilities across Ukraine, killed at least one 50-year-old man near Kyiv. AFP journalists ...
China's vice premier tells Davos world cannot revert to 'law of the jungle'
Jan 20, 2026 (AFP)
"A select few countries should not have privileges based on self-interest, and the world cannot revert to the law of the jungle where the strong prey on the wea...
Russia jails US man for five years for illegally transporting weapons
Jan 19, 2026 (AFP)
Dozens of Westerners, including Americans, have been imprisoned in Russia, especially after the start of the Ukraine war in 2022, with many of them later swappe...
Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act over Minnesota protests
Jan 16, 2026 (AFP)
Protesters denounced the violence of Trump's broad-reaching immigration raids in rallies in the frigid northern city, which is a Democratic stronghold. On his s...
UN chief attacks world leaders putting cooperation on 'deathwatch'
Jan 15, 2026 (AFP)
He also reiterated that he was "deeply concerned about the violent repression in Iran," ahead of an emergency Security Council meeting on the crisis scheduled f...
European military mission in Greenland as US aim 'remains intact'
Jan 15, 2026 (AFP)
Greenland's Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen insisted meanwhile that "dialogue and diplomacy are the right way forward", hailing the fact that a dialogue wa...
Leaders of Japan and South Korea meet as China flexes muscles
Jan 13, 2026 (AFP)
The two leaders are in Takaichi's picturesque home region of Nara in western Japan, days after Lee visited Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. Looming in the ...
MPs concerned ahead of UK decision on mega Chinese embassy
Jan 13, 2026 (AFP)
Urgent questions were raised in parliament ahead of a January 20 government deadline for a decision on the planning proposals for a new embassy. The Daily Teleg...
Turning point? Canada's tumultuous relationship with China
Jan 12, 2026 (AFP)
The trip will be the first by a Canadian leader in almost a decade, as the two sides seek to turn the page on a series of diplomatic spats. Here is why the visi...
EU should consider forming combined military force: defence chief
Jan 11, 2026 (AFP)
EU defence commissioner Andrius Kubilius floated creating a "powerful, standing 'European military force' of 100,000 troops" as a possible option to better prot...
Trump's withdrawal list masks US pullback from climate, security and development bodies
Jan 09, 2026 (SPX)
A long list padded with small targets President Donald Trump's memorandum instructs all executive agencies to "take immediate steps" to withdraw from 35 non-UN ...
NATO 'far from being in a crisis' over Greenland: top commander
Jan 09, 2026 (AFP)
"There's been no impact on my work at the military level up to this point... I would just say that we're ready to defend every inch of alliance territory still ...
Timeline of Japan and China's spat
Jan 09, 2026 (AFP)
AFP details the timeline of the dispute between Asia's two biggest economies -- whose relations have long been frosty -- as it enters its third month. - Novembe...
Trump's cancellation list masks US pullback from climate, security and development bodies
Jan 09, 2026 (SPX)
A long list padded with small targets President Donald Trump's memorandum instructs all executive agencies to "take immediate steps" to withdraw from 35 non-UN ...
Viral 'Chinese Trump' wins laughs on both sides of Pacific
Jan 08, 2026 (AFP)
The 42-year-old from southwest China does not engage in political satire -- a minefield in the country that can lead to account suspension -- but has amassed mi...
Macron accuses US of 'turning away' from allies, breaking rules
Jan 08, 2026 (AFP)
Macron delivered his annual speech to French ambassadors as European powers were scrambling to come up with a coordinated response to Washington's capture of Ve...
Trump says doubts 'NATO would be there for us' if needed
Jan 07, 2026 (AFP)
"We will always be there for NATO, even if they won't be there for us," he wrote on his Truth Social platform, a day after the White House said it was not rulin...
Could Trump's desire for Greenland blow up NATO?
Jan 07, 2026 (AFP)
But how high really is the risk that Trump's desire for the territory might end up sinking an alliance that has underpinned Western security for over seven deca...
Macron says allies agree 'robust' security guarantees for Ukraine; Germany could join multinational force
Jan 06, 2026 (AFP)
Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky signed a declaration of intent that foresees Britain, France and other Europ...
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