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MOSCOW -The Kremlin said on Monday that the position of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine gave Moscow satisfaction, but declined to comment on Trump’s hopes for deal this week. U.S. envoy General Keith…
JERUSALEM – The Israeli military on Sunday released details from their review of the killing of 15 emergency workers in Gaza last month, which said there had been “several professional failures, breaches of orders, and a failure to fully report…
TROIS-RIVIERES, Quebec – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney took his election campaign to Quebec on Tuesday, saying only he could protect the predominantly French-speaking province from U.S. President Donald Trump. Polls show the ruling Liberals have a narrow lead over…
BEIRUT – An Israeli drone strike south of the Lebanese capital killed a top commander from militant group Jama’a Islamiya, the group said in a statement on Tuesday. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. The strike on…
MOSCOW – Russia is ready to consider a proposal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a halt to attacks by both sides on each other’s civilian infrastructure, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was a…
JAIPUR, India -President Donald Trump wants both the United States and India to grow and the two countries can work together across sectors including trade, defence and energy for a win-win partnership, U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday….
CAIRO – The Israeli military launched one of the biggest waves of strikes in Gaza for weeks on Tuesday, residents said, and health officials issued a new warning that healthcare faced total collapse from Israel’s blockade of all supplies. Gaza’s…
BEIJING -Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday urged Britain and the European Union to safeguard multilateral trading systems, as Beijing seeks to rally support from trading partners to counter U.S. tariff measures. Wang told British Foreign Secretary David Lammy…
MOSCOW – Iran believes reaching an agreement on its nuclear programme with the United States is possible as long as Washington is realistic, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Friday on the eve of a second round of talks with…
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a unilateral Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, ordering his forces to end hostilities at 6 p.m. Moscow time (1500 GMT) on Saturday until the end of Sunday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian air defence units were…
WASHINGTON -Elon Musk’s SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense shield, six people familiar with the matter said. Musk’s rocket and satellite company is partnering with…
KYIV -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday China was supplying weapons and gunpowder to Russia, the first time he has openly accused Beijing of direct military assistance for Moscow. The Ukrainian leader said at a press conference that his…
PARIS -Talks in Paris among top U.S. officials Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, Ukraine and Europe’s top three powers were “excellent” and show Europeans are back at the table for negotiations on Ukraine’s future, French officials said on Thursday. President…
China’s leader Xi Jinping urged Cambodia to “resist protectionism,” as he arrived in Phnom Penh on Thursday at the end of a three-nation tour of Southeast Asia, as U.S. tariffs threatened the economies of both countries. Cambodia is a major…
LONDON – Plans are afoot for an American-owned company seized by the Kremlin and placed under state control to be used to supply food to the Russian army, a document seen by Reuters showed, potentially threatening Moscow’s warming relations with…
BEIJING – Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Thursday that China was a very important market for Nvidia after the U.S. imposed a ban on sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to the country. “We hope to continue to…
MOSCOW – Russia’s richest people saw their wealth rise by more than 8% to $625.5 billion over the past year, with at least 146 billionaires listed by the Forbes Russian-language list of the wealthiest people in Russia, the magazine said…
NEW YORK -The Trump administration is appealing efforts by two judges to investigate whether government officials defied their rulings over the deportation of migrants to El Salvador, escalating a confrontation between the executive and judicial branches On Wednesday night, the…
MOSCOW/DUBAI – Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sent his foreign minister to Moscow on Thursday with a letter for President Vladimir Putin to brief the Kremlin about nuclear negotiations with the U.S., which has threatened to bomb the Islamic Republic….
KUALA LUMPUR – China’s President Xi Jinping called for support for the international system centred around the United Nations, trade and the rule of law as he continued on a Southeast Asian tour amid a sharp deterioration in China-U.S. relations….
A Russian drone attack on the Black Sea port city of Odesa overnight injured three people, sparked fires and damaged homes and civilian infrastructure, officials of the southern Ukrainian region said on Wednesday. Various morning attacks by Russian aviation and…
DUBAI – Iran’s right to enrich uranium is not negotiable, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said on Wednesday, ahead of a second round of talks in Oman this weekend with the United States about Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme. Araqchi was responding…
BEIJING – Property investment in China fell 9.9% in the first three months of 2025 from a year earlier, after dropping 9.8% in the January-February period, official data showed on Wednesday. Property sales by floor area were down 3.0% in…
SYDNEY – Australian politicians were gifted about A$245,000 ($147,000) in match tickets over nearly two years by the country’s most popular sporting leagues as part of a lobbying campaign against a proposed ban on advertising of online gambling, according to…
BEIJING -China appointed as its new trade negotiator on Wednesday a former representative to the World Trade Organization who replaces Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen, amid an escalating tariff war with the United States. Li Chenggang, 58, a former assistant…
BEIJING – China’s industrial output in March rose 7.7% from a year earlier, quickening from 5.9% growth in the January-February period, official data showed on Wednesday, as the world’s second-largest economy braced for the impact of hefty U.S. trade tariffs….
BEIJING – China’s crude steel output in March climbed 4.6% from the prior year, incentivised by higher margins and robust exports. The world’s largest steel producer manufactured 92.84 million metric tons of crude steel last month, data from the National…
FRANKFURT – The euro zone’s current account surplus narrowed in February as a higher services surplus was not big enough to offset a rise in goods imports, European Central Bank data showed on Wednesday. The currency bloc’s seasonally adjusted balance…
BEIJING – China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday urged the United States to stop exerting maximum pressure if it really wants to solve issues through dialogue, after the White House said the “ball is in China’s court” on trade talks.
The European Commission on Wednesday included countries such as Egypt and Tunisia, where human rights have come under scrutiny, on a list of “safe countries” to which failed asylum seekers could be returned. The EU list, criticised by human rights…