Xi, Mattis meet amid troubled security ties
BEIJING, June 27 (AFP): Chinese President Xi Jinping told US Defence Secretary James Mattis Wednesday the two countries must sustain the "good momentum" of their military relationship, amid US worries about China's projection of power across the Indo-Pacific.Mattis, visiting Beijing to take the measure of China's global security ambitions, especially...
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Twin blasts leave 15 people dead in Syria
DAMASCUS, June 27 (Xinhua): At least 15 people were killed or wounded on Wednesday in two explosions that rocked Syria's northern Afrin enclave.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said one of the explosions is believed to be caused by a booby-trapped vehicle that went off in a roundabout in the...
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Threat of collapse looms over German coalition
BERLIN, June 27 (Reuters): The threat of collapse still loomed over Germany's three-month old coalition government on Wednesday after crisis talks into the early hours failed to resolve a row over immigration between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Bavarian allies.The dispute is over plans drawn up by Merkel's interior minister...
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UN top court begins hearing Qatar lawsuit against UAE
THE HAGUE, June 27 (Agencies): The United Nations (UN) highest court has begun hearing a lawsuit by Qatar accusing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of "discrimination against Qatar and Qatari citizens" amid a yearlong boycott by four Arab nations. The UAE denies the allegations.Qatar Wednesday will launch an urgent case...
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John Bolton due to talk possible US-Russia summit
MOSCOW, June 27 (Agencies): US President Donald Trump's national security adviser is due in Moscow to lay the groundwork for a possible US-Russia summit.National Security Adviser John Bolton will meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday. The Kremlin would not say whether Bolton would also meet with President Vladimir...
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Morocco jails protest leaders for 20 years
CASABLANCA, June 27 (AFP): Leaders of a Moroccan protest movement were sentenced to up to 20 years in prison late Tuesday over their roles in demonstrations that rocked the north of the country in 2016.The figurehead of the Al-Hirak al-Shaabi, or "Popular Movement", Nasser Zefzafi, as well as other leaders...
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People protesting against the Muslim travel ban
People protesting against the Muslim travel ban outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on Tuesday. The US Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump's controversial ban on travellers from five mostly Muslim countries — AFP
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News in Brief (28-6-2018)
Prince William meets Palestinian presidentRAMALLAH, June 27: Britain's Prince William traveled to the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Wednesday to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. William, on the first official British royal visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, will see Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The prince...
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