DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and Sweden agree to a prisoner swap freeing Hamid Nouri, convicted of war crimes by Sweden over 1988 executions.
The UK and US are at loggerheads over Ukraine’s relationship with Nato, after American officials said its path to membership should not be described as “irreversible”, it has been reported.
There is nothing “peaceful” about the defence pact that Vladimir Putin signed yesterday with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Jong-un. On the contrary, the comprehensive strategic partnership agreed between the two leaders during the Russian president’s visit to Pyongyang demonstrates the deepening bond between two rogue states whose main aim is to forge a new “axis of evil” to confront the West.
The United Nations decolonisation committee has been accused of colonialism by the Falkland Islands after it suggested the UK and Argentina should begin fresh talks over their ownership.
Vladimir Putin's deal with North Korea has been greeted with fury in South Korea, which has threatened to supply weapons to Ukraine for the first time. The Russian president and Kim Jong Un signed an agreement on Wednesday that includes a vow to aid each other in the event of war. International concern has grown over an arrangement in which North Korea provides Russia with badly needed munitions in exchange for economic aid and technology transfers that could enhance its nuclear weapons and missile programmes.
South Korean president says agreement signed by Putin and Kim Jong-un is a deal between ‘two parties with a history of launching wars of invasion’
Russian leader Vladimir Putin arrives in Vietnam for the second leg of his overseas tour
Ryabkov told TASS in an interview that Moscow has "closest partners" in both Asia and Latin America with whom "the security situation is being worked out substantively, not only at the level of exchange of assessments". "There is nothing new in this," TASS cited Ryabkov as saying. "The issue (placement of long-range weapons) is being raised ... with a number of our partners."
The beheaded body of a Ukrainian soldier was discovered by an aerial reconnaissance team on top of a damaged military vehicle on Monday.
EU countries failed to agree on a 14th package of sanctions on Russia as Germany remained a blocking force despite the scrapping of a clause that Berlin found problematic, EU diplomats said on Wednesday. Officials from the 27 EU countries have been debating the package for over a month. Germany's hesitation was due in part to an internal disagreement between its foreign ministry and the chancellor's office, diplomats and a source familiar with the matter said.
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The Biden administration is prioritizing critical air defense capabilities for Ukraine over other countries to “ensure Ukraine’s survival” as Russia continues its brutal assault on the country with no end in sight, a senior White House official and congressional sources told CNN.
China's commerce ministry said on Wednesday that it had urged Britain to stop sanctioning Chinese firms after the country sanctioned five Chinese companies over their links to Russia. Britain last week imposed its first sanctions targeting vessels in Russian President Vladimir Putin's "shadow fleet" that it said was used to circumvent Western sanctions on the trade in Russian oil.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Thursday rejected the notion that China's dominance is to be feared, calling China a “true friend” at the end of Premier Li Qiang's visit to mark 50 years of diplomatic ties between their countries. While the leaders raised some contentious bilateral issues, Anwar said they discussed them as “equal partners, as trusted friends.” Don’t let China abuse its privilege and extort from the country.
A bipartisan United States congressional delegation met with the Dalai Lama Wednesday at his residence in India's Dharamshala, sparking anger from China which views the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism as a dangerous separatist. This comes as Washington and Beijing have recently restarted talks after several years of turmoil that began after the imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods under the Trump administration. Relations at the time deteriorated even more following the COVID-19 pandemic and the rising military tensions in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.
Netherlands PM will replace Jens Stoltenberg after making promise not to deploy Hungarian forces in Ukraine
Libyans from rival regions and all walks of life are fed up with the country’s divisions and want political players to end their years-long impasse and agree to hold national elections, a key step to peace in the oil-rich north African country, the U.N. deputy representative said Wednesday. Stephanie Koury told the U.N. Security Council that she has been meeting political leaders, civil society representatives, academics, women’s groups, military leaders and others in the country’s rival east and west to listen to their views. Libya plunged into chaos after a NATO-backed uprising toppled and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.
Major weapons exporter South Korea will "reconsider" a longstanding policy that bars it from supplying arms directly to Ukraine, a presidential official said Thursday, after North Korea and Russia signed a defence deal.Seoul has a longstanding policy that bars it from selling weapons into active conflict zones, which it has stuck to despite calls from Washington and Kyiv to reconsider.
Agreement to come to each other’s aid will spark fresh alarm in the West and allies in Asia
Russia and North Korea will give each other “military assistance” if either is attacked, according to the new mutual defence pact signed by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang.
Washington cannot "lag behind" in the development of hypersonic weapons and is ready to support its partners' air defence capabilities, according to a leading US defence contractor. Bridget Slayen, a senior communicator at Northrop Grumman's international programme, said "threats all around the world" were generating interest among European and Asia-Pacific partners in the company's air defence and missile products. Speaking at the Eurosatory defence exhibition in Paris on Tuesday, Slayen did no
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