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US to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany, fulfilling Trump threat
The United States will withdraw about 5,000 troops from Germany in the next six to 12 months, the Pentagon said Friday, fulfilling President Donald Trump’s threat as he clashes with the German leader over the US war with...
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Why Beijing now wants its spies executed in Taiwan to come in from decades in the cold
Fujian province, the closest mainland Chinese province to Taiwan, is an important site for Beijing’s messaging towards the island. In the first of a two-part series, Xinlu Liang examines how Beijing is framing the execut...
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China’s UN envoy blasts US ‘bullying’ as sanctions widen before Trump-Xi talks
China’s top UN diplomat slammed the US on Friday over its coercive behaviour, sanctioning of Chinese vessels and firms and for starting the Iran war along with Israel as Beijing assumed the rotating one-month presidency...
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US-Iran war: Trump tells Congress hostilities ‘terminated’, sidesteps war powers deadline
US President Trump has declared hostilities with Iran have ended, despite ongoing US troop presence and persistent regional tensions. This assertion, made in a letter to Congress, aims to bypass the War Powers Resolution...
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Oscar goes missing after director forced to check it on flight: ‘could be used as weapon’
After being forced to check his Academy Award on a transatlantic flight, recent winner Pavel Talankin’s Oscar went missing before an airline tracked it down two days later. Talankin, who co-directed the best documentary...
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Will Japan’s new arms export rules spark a high-end defence boom?
Japan has overhauled its overseas arms transfer regulations, a move analysts said paves the way for the country to export high-end weapons and defence platforms, including sixth-generation fighter jets. On April 21, Japa...
