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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US President Barack Obama will hold his first summit with President Xi Jinping in California next month, with Sino-US relations rattled by alleged Chinese cyber spying and tensions in the Pacific. Obama will welcome Xi to the plush Sunnylands estate resort in Palm Springs on June 7-8, as Washington seeks Chinese help to subdue North Korean belligerence and seeks a diplomatic breakthrough to end the slaughter in Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia has shipped advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, US officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Indonesia’s foreign minister is calling for a new treaty spanning Asia to help build trust, warning of the potential for conflict in the fast-changing region. On a visit to Washington, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said a treaty could help end “the all-too-familiar vicious cycle of tensions” in Asia and instead encourage confidence by bringing countries together in their goals. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Ali Gharib, on May 17th, 2013 Ali Gharib on shifting the blame for a lack of Mideast peace to American Secretary of State John Kerry.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In the wake of its apparent aversion to virgins – as expressed in its recent article “Never Sleep With a Virgin”, China’s nationalist newspaper, the Global Times, seems enthusiastic about lesbians – at least when former US secretary Hillary Clinton is suspected of being one. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Indonesia’s foreign minister called on Thursday for a new treaty spanning across Asia to help build trust, warning of the potential for conflict in the fast-changing region if tensions fester. On a visit to Washington, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said that a new treaty could help end “the all-too-familiar vicious cycle of tensions” in Asia and instead encourage confidence by bringing countries together in their goals. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Thursday that the government wants to give retroactive approval to four West Bank settlement outposts it had previously pledged to at least partially demolish. In a written response to a petition Peace Now submitted to Israel’s Supreme Court against the outposts, the state attorney’s office said that settlers had now purchased the private Palestinian land on which they built, paving the way for the government to give its blessing. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Israel to ‘legalise’ wildcat settler outposts, says NGO
By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The organisation that represents North Korean residents of Japan accused the Japanese government of blocking the sale of its headquarters in Tokyo to a priest who wanted to permit the Chongryon group to remain in the building. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Tokyo accused of blocking deal for North Korean ‘embassy’
By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Arctic Council agreed yesterday to admit emerging powers China and India as observers, reflecting growing global interest in the trade and energy potential of the planet’s far north. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday to mark the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war that followed Israel’s founding in 1948. Every May 15, Palestinians commemorate the “nakba”, or “catastrophe” – the term they use to describe their displacement. Hundreds of thousands fled or were driven out during the fighting. The dispute over the fate of those Palestinians and that of their descendants, now numbering several million people, remains at the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Free Syrian Army pledged on Wednesday to punish atrocities amid outrage over a video showing the mutilation of a corpse, as the regime ruled out discussing President Bashar al-Assad’s departure in negotiations. The mainstream rebel group made the statement after a gruesome video of an alleged rebel fighter cutting out and apparently eating the organs of a regime soldier emerged online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Syria rebels vow to punish atrocities amid video outrage
By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul on Wednesday met officials at the foreign ministry after being summoned to explain the presence of an alleged CIA agent working undercover at the embassy who was detained this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia said on Tuesday it had caught an American red-handed as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence officer to work for the CIA, a throwback to the cold war era that risks upsetting efforts to improve relations. The announcement came at an awkward time, just days after a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry during which Washington and Moscow agreed to try to bring the warring sides in Syria together for an international peace conference. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A buttoned-down Prince Harry joined Michelle Obama in honouring military families on Thursday and toured an exhibition in Congress about land-mines, opening a weeklong US visit devoted to the wounded victims of war. Shrieking onlookers gave him the pop-star treatment, but he was all royal business. The British soldier-prince had one of America’s most storied wounded warriors, the wisecracking Senator John McCain, at his side as he viewed a display of land-mine photos, maps and mine-detection equipment, staged by a charity held dear by his late mother, Princess Diana. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By STEVEN LEE MYERS and RICK GLADSTONE, on May 8th, 2013 Secretary of State John Kerry was in Rome seeking to advance a Russian-American proposal for a Syrian peace conference to commence within a month.
Continue reading As Syria Diplomacy Gains, Kerry to Announce More Aid
By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> After months of sharp differences, Russia and the United States have agreed to push both sides in Syria to find an end to the bloodshed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Russia, US agree joint push for peace in Syria
By By STEVEN LEE MYERS and RICK GLADSTONE, on May 7th, 2013 Secretary of State John Kerry and Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov of Russia jointly intensified pressure on Syria’s combatants to settle a conflict that has killed more than 70,000.
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By , on May 4th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tried calling Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to discuss the imprisoned nephew of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng but Wang was not available, the State Department said on Friday. Wang was said to be in Singapore on Friday for meetings with senior officials there. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell told reporters Kerry had tried to call Wang Thursday and would follow up. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Kerry phones China over dissident’s nephew, can’t reach minister
By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> President Evo Morales said yesterday he was expelling the US Agency for International Development for seeking to undermine his leftist government. In a fiery speech to workers on May Day, the president of South America’s poorest country said the agency was in Bolivia “for political purposes, not social ones”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Bolivia’s Evo Morales vows to expel US agency for interference
By , on May 1st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Peering at graphic pictures of supposed US biological warfare efforts during the 1950-53 Korean war, Zhang Ping tugs on the sleeve of a visiting foreign reporter to complain about the barbarism visited on his compatriots during the conflict. “Too terrible, those Americans,” he mutters, standing at a war museum on the Chinese side of the North Korean border, pointing out the pictures of infected animals and insects which China and North Korea say the United States dropped to poison their enemies. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Xi Jinping to meet US President Obama in California in June
<!– google_ad_section_start –> US President Barack Obama will hold his first summit with President Xi Jinping in California next month, with Sino-US relations rattled by alleged Chinese cyber spying and tensions in the Pacific. Obama will welcome Xi to the plush Sunnylands estate resort in Palm Springs on June 7-8, as Washington seeks Chinese help to subdue North Korean belligerence and seeks a diplomatic breakthrough to end the slaughter in Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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