Beijing: China and the United States are tussling over President Joe Biden's upcoming democracy summit, which the ruling Communist Party sees as a challenge to its authoritarian ways. The party...

Nice (France):  France announced the signing Friday of a 16 billion-euro (USD 18 billion) armaments mega-contract for the sale of 80 of its upgraded Rafale warplanes to the United Arab...

Seoul: US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday that China's pursuit of hypersonic weapons “increases tensions in the region” and vowed the U.S. would maintain its capability to deter potential...

Bangkok:  The killing of at least 65 protesters in Myanmar's biggest city on March 14 this year was planned and premeditated, and the perpetrators must be brought to justice, a...

Washington:  OPEC and allied oil-producing countries meet on Thursday under the spikey shadow of a new COVID-19 threat, with uncertainty over the omicron variant's impact on the global economic recovery...

Moscow: President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Moscow would seek Western guarantees that would preclude any further NATO expansion and deployment of its weapons near Russia's borders. Putin's statement...

Seoul:  US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in South Korea on Wednesday for annual security talks expected to bolster the countries' decades-long military alliance in the face of North Korean...

Beijing:  China lashed out at Shinzo Abe Wednesday after the former Japanese prime minister warned of the serious security and economic consequences of any Chinese military action against the self-ruled...

Tehran:  Iran struck a maximalist tone Tuesday after just one day of restarted talks in Vienna over its tattered nuclear deal, suggesting everything discussed in previous rounds of diplomacy could...

Riga (Latvia):  NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that there's little chance the military organisation would ever introduce a system for expelling anyone among its ranks, as tensions quietly simmer...