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China hails Xi-Biden meeting despite 'dictator' remark

The picture of Xi Jinping and Joe Biden on a stroll in a Californian country estate continues headlining Chinese media a day after what Beijing has hailed as a "historic" summit.

November 17, 2023

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Reuters | Beijing has hailed the meeting between Xi Jinping and Joe Biden as "historic" and "constructive"

President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa. © PHILL MAGAKOE / AFP

South Africa refers Israel to ICC

November 16, 2023

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks to reporters after the Xi-Biden summit. Photo: CCTV

Xi Jinping and Joe Biden working to ‘enhance trust’ between US and China, says Foreign Minister Wang Yi after summit

November 16, 2023

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November 15, 2023

Arab and Muslim leaders blame West for Gaza misery

Hypocrisy, double standards and a failure to understand the region. These are the charges being levelled at the West, primarily the US, by leaders of 57 Arab and Muslim countries who convened at the weekend in the Saudi capital Riyadh.

November 15, 2023

Reuters / Leaders warned of the "disastrous repercussions" of what they called Israel's "retaliatory aggression"

November 15, 2023

Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters

When Xi Jinping stepped off his plane in San Francisco for the Apec summit, it was in circumstances very different to the last time he landed on American soil.

November 15, 2023

GETTY IMAGES | Mr Xi faces a host of problems at home as he arrives in San Francisco

November 10, 2023

Biden, Xi Set to Meet Nov. 15 on Sidelines of APEC Summit

Leaders to speak for first time since meeting at G-20 in 2022

November 10, 2023

Biden, Xi Set to Meet Nov. 15 on Sidelines of APEC Summit

November 09, 2023

Ukraine’s commander-in-chief on the breakthrough he needs to beat Russia

General Valery Zaluzhny admits the war is at a stalemate

November 09, 2023

November 08, 2023

At G7, Blinken Warns Israel Against Occupying Gaza

Netanyahu has insisted there will be no cease-fire until the hostages taken by Hamas are released.

November 08, 2023

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a press conference after attending a session of the Group of 7 Foreign Ministers meetings in Tokyo, Nov. 8, 2023.

November 08, 2023

European Commission Recommends Starting Membership Talks With Ukraine

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Wednesday that Ukraine “belongs to our European family.”

November 08, 2023

The European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell shakes hands with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa as they pose for the cameras during their bilateral meeting at the foreign ministry in Tokyo, Nov. 8, 2023.

November 08, 2023

G7 issues ‘unified’ call for humanitarian pause to Gaza conflict

G7 nations said in joint statement Israel has a right to defend itself, while underscoring need to protect civilians and comply with international humanitarian law

November 08, 2023

People gather by a collapsed building after an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip. MAHMUD HAMS/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

November 07, 2023

U.S., NATO to Suspend Participation in Landmark Cold War Arms Treaty

Move follows Russia’s withdrawal from the Conventional Forces in Europe pact.

November 07, 2023

Bulgarian troops during a NATO exercise. Suspending participation will give the U.S. more flexibility to deploy forces in Romania and Bulgaria, near Ukraine. PHOTO: NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

November 01, 2023

Gaza now a ‘graveyard’ for children – UN agency

UNICEF has decried the Israel-Hamas war, saying its worst fears about the staggering child death toll are being realized

November 01, 2023

Injured Palestinians, including children, are taken to a Gaza hospital after an Israeli attack on Tuesday in Deir al Balah. © Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images

October 30, 2023

Pentagon announces new nuclear bomb 24 times more powerful than one dropped on Japan

.The new bomb would replace some current stocks and not increase the US nuclear stockpile.

October 30, 2023

An F-16 from Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, one of several U.S. aircraft capable of carrying nuclear weapons. (U.S. Air Force photo by MSgt. Don Taggart)

October 28, 2023

Erdogan urges Israel to end its ‘madness’

On Friday, the IDF announced an expansion of its ground operations in Gaza

October 28, 2023

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan © Adem ALTAN / AFP

October 26, 2023

Israel Is Losing Support as Fury Grows Over Its Strikes on Gaza

Where Israel sees a fight against terror others see occupation
Brutality of October 7 reminds Israelis of Nazi slaughter

October 26, 2023

Anwar Ibrahim during a pro-Palestinian rally in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Oct. 24.Photographer: Samsul Said/Bloomberg

October 24, 2023

Sweden closer to NATO membership after Erdogan sends accession protocol to Turkish parliament

Erdogan’s proposal must make its way out of a parliamentary commission.

October 24, 2023

Dimitris Papamitsos/AP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had stood in the path of Sweden joining NATO for more than a year over a multitude of concerns.

October 24, 2023

Iran’s ayatollahs play the Middle East’s most dangerous game

They want to escalate without triggering full-blown war

October 24, 2023

October 19, 2023

Why China-Russia Ties Worry America

As Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin grow ever closer, their mutual distrust of the US may be their strongest bond.

October 19, 2023

Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcoming ceremony at the Third Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on Oct. 17.Photographer: Sergei Savostyanov/AF

October 19, 2023

West ‘lost’ Global South over Israel – FT

Standing up for Ukraine but not Palestine makes the US and its allies look like hypocrites, officials have told the outlet

October 19, 2023

FILE PHOTO: Destruction in Gaza © Mustafa Hassona / Anadolu via Getty Images

October 19, 2023

Israel-Hamas war tests Western unity as Global South slams 'double standards'

International responses to the October 7 Hamas attack were broadly split between the Global North and South over condemnations of the killings of just Israeli civilians in the terror attack or all civilians in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But as the Gaza humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate, divisions are increasing within the West.

October 19, 2023

A protestor at a Palestinian solidarity rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil on October 18, 2023. © Carla Carniel, Reuters