Biden meets South Korea, Japan leaders for pre-Trump huddle on risk

The meeting between Washington and two of its closest Asian allies came as US relations with Beijing are expected to grow more confrontational after Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration. US President Joe Biden met with Japanese and South Korean leaders on Friday as they sought to cement their diplomatic progress ahead of a new Trump […]

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Control of nuclear weapons, on which Biden-Xi Jinping agree

Outgoing US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed that control of nuclear weapons should never go to artificial intelligence (AI). On Sunday (November 17), this information was reported in a report by the news agency Reuters. Biden and Xi met on the sidelines of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum) summit […]

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Hezbollah’s media chief is claimed to have been killed in an Israeli attack

Israel has killed the spokesman of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, Mohammad Afif. Al Jazeera news. On Sunday (November 17), citing a source, Qatar-based media told Al Jazeera that Afif was killed in an Israeli attack in Ras al-Naba, central Beirut. He was Hezbollah’s top media relations officer. Al Jazeera reporter Dorsa Jabbari said Mohammad […]

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Xi tells Ishiba China hopes Japan will ‘properly handle’ history, Taiwan issues

Chinese President Xi Jinping told Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in their first meeting that China hoped Japan would “properly handle” major issues such as history and Taiwan, according to Chinese state media on Saturday. Xi called for the two Asian neighbours to safeguard the global free trade system, as well as stable and unimpeded […]

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Taiwan’s APEC representative says no handshake or dialogue with China’s Xi, only wave

Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s representative at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Lima, said on Saturday that he greeted China’s President Xi Jinping with a wave, but there was no handshake or conversation, a sign of the tensions between Taipei and Beijing. Taiwan, which takes part in APEC as “Chinese Taipei” and does not send […]

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North Korea may end up sending Putin 100,000 troops for his war

North Korea may deploy as many as 100,000 troops to aid Russia’s war on Ukraine if the alliance between Pyongyang and Moscow continues to deepen, according to people familiar with assessments made by some Group of 20 nations. The analysis is one of several on the evolving partnership between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim […]

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Turkmenistan and Huawei Strengthen Cooperation in ICT Education

Within the framework of the Turkmentel exhibition, a meeting was held between Deputy Minister of Education of Turkmenistan Azat Atayev and President of the Department of Marketing and Sales of ICT Solutions of Huawei in the Middle East and Central Asia Allen Tang, the website of the Ministry of Education reports. The parties discussed the […]

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Xi says he will work with Trump team as he meets Biden in Peru

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday vowed to work with the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump as he held his final talks with outgoing President Joe Biden on key conflicts from cyber crime to trade, Taiwan and Russia. Biden met Xi for about two hours at a hotel where the Chinese leader was staying, […]

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Nepal, India discuss movement of third country nationals

The eighth annual Nepal-India border security coordination meeting between the Armed Police Force of Nepal and Sashastra Seema Bal of India kicked off in Kathmandu on Saturday with security officials from both sides expressing concerns over the movement of third-country nationals through the Nepal-India border. APF Inspector General Raju Aryal and Director General of the […]

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EU foreign chief calls for sanctions against Israel

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called on the country to stop Israeli aggression in Gaza and Lebanon. He called for sanctions against Israel for war crimes. The top European diplomat also criticized the EU bloc’s approach to Israel. According to him, the EU has so far shielded the Israeli regime from suffering meaningful consequences. […]

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