Views: 0 The top diplomats of the United States, Australia, Japan and India opened talks in Melbourne Friday on deepening their Quad alliance, hoping to blunt China’s expanding power across the Asia-Pacific region.”Together we are a vital network of liberal democracies committed to practical cooperation and to ensuring all Indo-Pacific nations, large and small, are […]
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Views: 3 The Biden administration will soon issue its annual National Security Strategy. But it is already clear that the world isn’t waiting on us. Think Russia-Ukraine tensions or North Korean missile tests. But also think the brazen drone attacks on Abu Dhabi last month, which killed three people – rumored to be only part
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Views: 2 Burkina Faso’s new military strongman, Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, has been declared president by the country’s top constitutional body after a coup last month, legal sources said Thursday.© – Damiba took power after soldiers mutinied over the government’s handling of a jihadist insurgencyThey said the Constitutional Council on Wednesday determined that “Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, lieutenant-colonel
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Views: 1 The prime minister, Scott Morrison, has been hit with a damaging cabinet leak revealing he was rolled over a plan to convince renegade MPs opposed to the government’s religious discrimination bill. © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Mike Bowers/The GuardianAfter a torrid start to the parliamentary year, which saw Morrison’s character come under question
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Views: 4 WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden said Thursday he has no plans to send troops into Ukraine to rescue U.S. citizens in the event of a Russian invasion, saying Americans and Russians shooting at each other would amount to a “world war.” “It’s not like we’re dealing with a terrorist organization. We’re dealing with
Views: 2 WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans, two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday. While neither the agency nor lawmakers would disclose specifics about the data, the senators alleged the CIA had long hidden details about the program from the public
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Views: 1 US President Joe Biden is in a tough spot as the Iran nuclear talks resume in Vienna, gambling on a successful outcome but facing growing bipartisan concern that even if a deal is reached it may be insufficient to curb Tehran’s nuclear program. The subject has been somewhat on mute in Washington after
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Views: 3 The Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Jagan Chapagan and his delegation called on Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees on Tuesday. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the world’s largest humanitarian organisation, is spread across 192 countries. Sri Lanka’s Prime
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Views: 2 By Farah Master © Reuters/JOYCE ZHOU Testing centre for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Hong KongHONG KONG (Reuters) -China will fully support Hong Kong with its “dynamic zero” coronavirus strategy, its office overseeing matters in the city said, as the territory is expected to hit a new record for daily infections on Friday.The global
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Views: 1 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a state of the nation address on Thursday promising “decisive” action to stem corruption, as he faces demands for a plan to reverse widening disillusionment with his government. © Nic BOTHMA In his state of nation address, President Cyril Ramaphosa said “the fight against corruption will take on
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