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Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed the “unyielding relationship” between China and Russia as he began talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Beijing on Wednesday, state media reported. “We have been able to continuously deepen our political mutual trust and strategic coordination with a resilience that remains unyielding despite trials and tribulations,” Xi told Putin, according to Xinhua news ...

The attacks on Monday came three days after Lebanese and Israeli officials held talks in Washington DC, which resulted in an agreement to extend their ceasefire for another 45 days. Israel has repeatedly violated the truce, which was initially agreed in April, Al Jazeera. Those killed on Monday included Wael Abdel Halim, a leader in the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement, ...

By Hamshika Krishnamoorthy:   2009: Why were Tamil civilians targeted inside the “No Fire Zones”, where hundreds of thousands of people had been told they would be safe? It is very clear that this was a systematic genocide against Tamil civilians carried out during the final phase of the war. According to multiple reports and investigations, an estimated 40,000 to ...

Israel and Lebanon agreed to a 45-day extension of a ceasefire that has tamped down the conflict between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, as two days of talks facilitated by Washington concluded on Friday with an agreement to hold further meetings in the coming weeks. “The April 16 cessation of hostilities will be extended by 45 days to ...

US President Donald Trump departed China on Friday touting business deals that gave markets little to cheer, while Beijing warned Washington about mishandling Taiwan and said its war with Iran should never have started. Trump’s visit to America’s main strategic and economic rival, the first by a US president since his last trip in 2017, had aimed for tangible results ...

India and the United Arab Emirates have signed pacts on strategic defence cooperation, petroleum reserves and supply of liquefied petroleum gas, an Indian government official said on Friday. The pacts were signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the UAE.

U.S. President Donald Trump entered his final talks with Xi Jinping on Friday touting economic wins that gave markets little to cheer, while Beijing warned Washington about mishandling Taiwan and said its war with Iran should never have started. Trump is making the first visit by a U.S. president to China, America’s main strategic and economic rival, since his last ...

Iran’s foreign minister urged BRICS nations on Thursday to condemn what he called violations of international law by the United States and Israel, including “their illegal aggression against Iran”. His remarks at a two-day meeting in New Delhi underscore divisions within the expanded BRICS bloc, as the US-Israeli war in Iran casts a shadow over the gathering of foreign ministers. ...

A boat carrying 37 undocumented migrants believed to be from Indonesia sank off Pangkor island on Malaysia’s west coast, leaving 14 people still missing, maritime authorities said. The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) in Perak said it was alerted early Monday by a local fisherman who found the survivors floating at sea. “Initial investigations… found that the total number of ...

Iran has warned that countries enforcing US sanctions against it could face difficulties transiting the Strait of Hormuz, according to remarks by a military spokesperson carried by local media. Brigadier General Akrami Nia said any country implementing the sanctions would “definitely face difficulties passing through the Strait of Hormuz,” the Tasnim news agency reported. He also claimed that Iran had ...