China hosts summit with Russia and Iran as nuclear deal wobbles
AFP | Iran, China and Russia may seek ways to salvage the nuclear deal ditched by Donald Trump when their leaders meet this weekend at...
G7 ministers criticize US tariffs and warn of trade war
News Analysis | Last week, Trump was told that the U.S. was playing a ‘dangerous game by slapping tariffs on European steel and aluminum. Therefore,...
Trump ‘could pardon himself over Russia but won’t’, says Giuliani
News Desk | Donald Trump probably has the power to pardon himself in the Russia collusion affair but does not intend to do so, his...
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Pyongyang: KCNA
AFP | Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Pyongyang Thursday, North Korea's state media said, ahead of a landmark summit between Donald Trump and...
Pompeo warns Russia: stay out of US ‘domestic matters’
AFP | US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke by telephone to Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for the first time on Wednesday and warned...
Murder of anti-Kremlin war reporter shocks Russians
AFP | Russia's embattled liberal community was reeling Wednesday from the murder of fiercely anti-Kremlin journalist Arkady Babchenko who was gunned down in Ukraine after...
US to keep confronting Beijing in S. China Sea: Mattis
AFP | Defense Secretary Jim Mattis vowed Tuesday that the US would keep confronting China over its territorial claims in the South China Sea, where...
Russia asks Apple to help block Telegram
AFP | Russia's communications watchdog said Monday it had requested Apple help it block the popular messaging app Telegram which has been banned in the...
Russia beats US at its own game: France, Japan, and IMF lament the United States in St. Petersburg
News Analysis | Under the pretext of Salisbury Spy poisoning incident, the United States along with its European allies tried to bring down Russia, to...
China to host Iran leader amid nuclear deal upheaval
AFP | Iran's president will attend a summit with his Chinese and Russian counterparts next month, officials in Beijing said Monday, as they try to...
Beijing protests US warship operation in South China Sea
AFP | China has voiced "strong dissatisfaction" after two US warships sailed by an island claimed by Beijing in the disputed South China Sea, adding...
Taiwan diplomacy harder than ever in US-China tug of war
AFP | Diplomacy has never been easy for Taiwan and is becoming ever more complex as it is caught between the United States under an...