BEIJING, July 16 (Reuters) – A Chinese naval flotilla set off on Sunday to join Russian naval and air forces in the Sea of Japan in an exercise aimed at "safeguarding the security of strategic waterways", according to China's de…

ASEAN is an intergovernmental organisation comprising Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. India is part of the ASEAN Plus Six grouping, which also includes China, Japan, South Korea, …

Open this photo in gallery: Kemi Badenoch, British Trade Minister, second right, shakes hands with Japan's Minister of Economic & Fiscal Policy Shigeyuki Goto, left, as New Zealand Minister for Trade and Export Growth Damien O'Connor, a…

The business secretary, Kemi Badenoch, has signed off UK membership to a large Indo-Pacific trade bloc that the government argues will bring British businesses a step closer to selling to a market of 500 million people with fewer barriers.…
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Chinese naval vessels set sail this weekend to participate in joint manoeuvres with the Russian military, Chinese defence authorities said Sunday.
Ties between Moscow and Beijing have grown closer since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, a move China ha…

Nick Perry , The Associated Press
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Britain on Sunday officially joined an Asia-Pacific trade group that includes Japan and 10 other nations during a meeting in New Zealand.…
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T he chances of the UK securing a free trade agreement (FTA) with the United States are “very low”, according to the Business Secretary.
Kemi Badenoch said the change of administration from Donald Trump to Joe Biden following the 2020 US election is th…

Vladimir Putin has threatened the use of cluster bombs by Russian forces if Ukraine deploys the controversial weapons.
The Russian president said Moscow had "sufficient stockpile" of its own cluster munitions and it "reserved the righ…

TAIPEI – The front runner to be Taiwan’s next president pledged on Sunday to be a steady hand who would keep the peace with China, as his two opponents attended a thronged rally calling for domestic legal reforms and more action to combat high property…

Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press
As federal parties craft the scope of a possible inquiry into foreign interference, Canada's media-literacy charity argues governments and schools need to do a better job of preventing citizens from being manip…

“Indians would do well to remember these words every time they are assailed by a sense of grievance in relation to China,” Ghosh writes in Smoke and Ashes.
In his book, Ghosh has quoted Gopal Krishna Gokhale – one of the many public figures who were pa…

On Sunday, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that the US was “eager” to collaborate with China on areas of common interest, such as debt restructuring for poorer nations, and that multilateral development banks needed reforms before capital inc…

BEIJING, July 16 (Reuters) – A Chinese military-run hospital ship has arrived in Kiribati for the first time, as China vies with the United States for influence in the Pacific region.…
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Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi and Kenyan president William Ruto after a press conference at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 12th. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has wound up a tour of three African countr…

It was the damning picture of him strolling through New York’s Central Park in 2010 with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein that triggered Prince Andrew’s dramatic downfall.
During his catastrophic BBC interview with Emily Maitlis four years ago, the Prince in…

Nowadays, tomatoes are trending at Rs 100 per kg and ginger and garlic are touching Rs 150-200 per kg. The steep rise in prices punched into the pocket of an average household tells a bigger story of climate shocks.…
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US climate envoy John Kerry arrived in China on Sunday, state media reported, to restart stalled talks between the world's two biggest emitters of planet-warming gases.
Starting on Monday, "China and the United States will have an in-depth …

Tens of millions of people around the world were facing dangerously high temperatures on Sunday, as record heat forecasts loomed over portions of the United States, Europe, and Asia, in the latest demonstration of global warming’s menace.…
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On Sunday, US climate envoy John Kerry will go to China to meet with his colleague Xie Zhenhua and restart stalled talks between the world’s two largest producers of greenhouse gases.…
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Redoubling aid to war-torn Ukraine is the “single best” method to help the global economy, according to US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, along with supporting developing economies and addressing debt distress.…
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China’s growth
Dr Yellen was speaking ahead of a gathering this week of finance ministers and central bank governors from G20 countries. The Group of Seven will also hold a session in Gandhinagar, with bilateral meetings expected in addition.…
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