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(Reuters) – China appeared to rebuff pressure from the United States to rein in its assertive actions in the South China Sea on Sunday as Southeast Asian nations declined to overtly back Washington’s proposal for a freeze on provocative acts. The lack of progress in resolving the maritime tensions at Asia’s highest-profile diplomatic meeting so far this year shows the tough task Washington faces in persuading smaller Asian nations to risk antagonizing the region’s rising power. Foreign […]
Hamas militants have resumed rocket fire after Egypt has failed to extend the truce between the militants and Israel.
United States president Barack Obama approved the use of targeted missile strikes against Islamist militants if they threaten Americans stationed in Iraq.
China is bent in pursuing its aggressive designs in South China sea with plans to build lighthouses in islands also claimed by Vietnam.
In a negotiation in Cairo, Hamas militants are ready to continue their attacks against Israel, making it impossible to extend the ceasefire in Gaza which will end tonight. Hamas militants refuse long-term ceasefire as long as Israel maintains economic blockade in Gaza.
Israel once again deployed forces and tanks in the Gaza border as the 72-hour truce nears its end.
Russia has announced a ban on the import of United States food products and a ban on importation of European fruits and vegetables, seemingly an answer to economic sanctions imposed on the country.
At least 55 people were buried and 49 others missing due to fresh landslides in earthquake-stricken southwest China.
A United States general was killed and another dozen wounded, including a German general, in the latest insider attack of a military training facility in the Afghan capital of Kabul.
United States Secretary of State John Kerry asked for a voluntary freeze on actions that tend to aggravate maritime disputes in the Asian seas as he attends the ASEAN summit in Myanmar.
(Reuters) – Israel withdrew ground forces from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and started a 72-hour ceasefire with Hamas mediated byEgypt as a first step towards negotiations on a more enduring end to the month-old war. Minutes before the truce began at 8 a.m. (0500 GMT), Hamas launched a salvo of rockets, calling them revenge for Israel’s “massacres”. Israel’s anti-missile system shot down one rocket over Jerusalem, police said. Another hit a house in a town near Bethlehem […]
(Reuters) – A plane carrying a second American aid worker infected with Ebola from West Africa arrived in Maine to refuel on Tuesday and was due to continue to Atlanta so the woman can receive further treatment for the deadly virus. Missionary Nancy Writebol, 59, departed from Liberia on Monday in a medical aircraft. She was aboard a plane that landed at Bangor International Airport in Maine just after 8 a.m. EST (1200 GMT) on […]
