U.S. ties ‘super important’ says Mexican leftist’s pick to lead NAFTA talks A former World Trade Organization economist picked to lead NAFTA negotiations by the front-runner in the race for Mexico’s presidency told Reuters on Tuesday that modernizing parts of the pact should be possible while stressing the importance of […]
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Expelled Russian diplomats leave Britain in nerve agent crisis Twenty three expelled Russian diplomats and their families left London for Moscow on Tuesday as Britain and Russia traded recriminations over a nerve agent attack in England that has plunged relations into their worst crisis since the Cold War. Prime Minister […]
Taiwan shadows China carrier group after Xi warning Taiwan has sent ships and aircraft to shadow a Chinese aircraft carrier group through the narrow Taiwan Strait, its defense ministry said on Wednesday, after Chinese President Xi Jinping offered his strongest warning against Taiwan separatism to date. China claims Taiwan as […]
South Korea’s Moon says three-way summit with North Korea, U.S. possible South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Wednesday a three-way summit with North Korea and the United States is possible and that talks should aim for an end to the nuclear threat on the Korean peninsula. Moon is planning […]
Reuters reporters in court 100 days after their arrest in Myanmar Two Reuters reporters appeared in a Myanmar court for the 11th time on Wednesday, which marked 100 days since they were arrested in December and accused of possessing secret government papers. A Yangon court is holding preliminary hearings to […]
Israel goes public on 2007 destruction of suspected Syrian reactor, warns region Israel for the first time confirmed that it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, saying on Wednesday that the strike removed a major threat to Israel and the region and was a “message” to others. The […]
Trump Attacks Iranian Government in Nowruz Holiday Message President Donald Trump used the annual presidential statement marking the Persian holiday of Nowruz to criticize Iran’s government and military leaders with sharp-tongued language rarely before seen in a celebratory presidential message. “The history of Nowruz is rooted in Iran, where for […]
Taiwanese author and political campaigner Li Ao dies, aged 82 He passed away peacefully on Sunday morning at the Veterans General Hospital in the Taiwan capital Taipei following a battle with brain cancer. The 82 year-old, who was born in Harbin and brought up in Beijing, was diagnosed with a […]
We’re Losing the Fight’: Tuberculosis Batters a Venezuela in Crisis CARACAS, Venezuela — His family thought he just had a bad cold, nothing serious. But Victor Martínez kept getting worse. By mid-January, he lay in a hospital ward, wasting away from tuberculosis. A month later, at his wake, stunned relatives […]
U.S.-South Korea Military Drills to Test Kim’s Desire for Talks Annual U.S.-South Korea military exercises will start on April 1, in a move that risks irking North Korea ahead of planned summits with the leaders of South Korea and the U.S. The exercises on the Korean Peninsula would be of […]
