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(Reuters) – A U.S. military investigation of Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl’s capture by the Taliban found he had slipped away from his unit before but had always returned, raising questions about whether or not he was deserting when he disappeared in 2009, people familiar with the findings said on Thursday. Bergdahl, 28, was freed after five years as an Afghanistan war prisoner on Saturday when the Obama administration agreed to release five Taliban leaders from Guantanamo prison […]
(Reuters) – Global warming is causing trillions of dollars of damage to coral reefs, aggravating risks to tropical small island states threatened by rising sea levels, a U.N. report said on Thursday. The rise in sea levels off some islands in the Western Pacific was four times the global average, with gains of 1.2 cms (0.5 inch) a year from 1993 to 2012, due to shifts in winds and currents, said the United Nations’ Environment […]
The Group of 7 leaders are considering further measures against Russia if necessary over the Ukraine crisis.
Leaders of the Group of Seven, the world’s richest democracies, have issued a joint statement expressing their deep concern over the increasing tensions in South China Sea.
Thailand’s junta stated that representatives from Hanoi and Beijing expressed their support of the new military government.
China will not submit a counter-memorial at the arbitration tribunal at the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, reiterating their position that they will not participate in the proceedings.
(Reuters) – President Bashar al-Assad has secured a landslide victory in a wartime election that was condemned as a sham by his opponents but demonstrated his tenacious hold on power after three years of brutal civil war. Parliamentary speaker Mohammad al-Laham said Assad secured 88.7 percent of votes cast in the election, which was held mainly in the central and western parts of the country, where his forces hold sway. “I declare the victory of […]
A news report from Tokyo stated that leaders from the Group of Seven are set to adopt for the first time a statement of their concerns against Chinese militarism in the South China Sea.
China deployed additional manpower in preparation for the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
The Department of Foreign Affairs continue to advise OFWs in Libya to leave the country immediately, due to the increasingly volatile situation there.
Over a hundred cases of MERScov have gone unreported, with a Saudi press agency reporting significantly higher figures compared to the official report of the Saudi health ministry.
Angela Garcia’s travelogue takes us to Bilbao, Spain
