4/25/2018 10:22:48 AM
The 32nd ASEAN Summit will take place on April 27-28 in Singapore under the theme of “Building a Resilient and Innovative ASEAN”, with the participation of leaders of the 10 ASEAN member states.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a third straight term in power in Sunday elections after his anti-immigration campaign message secured a strong majority for his party in parliament, granting him two-thirds of seats based on preliminary results.
Loud explosions were heard near the T-4 airfield in the Syrian city of Homs in the early hours of Monday (April 9th), Syrian state media reported.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday (April 4th) urged "common sense" to prevail in the spy poisoning crisis as London and Moscow faced off in a tense meeting at the world's chemical weapons watchdog.
Facebook said on Wednesday (April 4th) the personal data of up to 87 million users was improperly shared with British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, as Mark Zuckerberg defended his leadership at the huge social network.
The escalating confrontation between Washington and Beijing inched closer to all-out trade war on Wednesday (April 4th) after China threatened retaliation against key U.S. exports.
U.S. officials published on Tuesday (April 3rd) a list of USD 50 billion in Chinese imports set to be targeted by US tariffs, the latest move in President Donald Trump's simmering trade confrontation with Beijing.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smiled, clapped and said he was "deeply moved" by a rare performance by South Korean K-pop stars in Pyongyang, state media reported Monday (April 2nd).
China on Monday (April 2nd) imposed new tariffs on 128 U.S. imports worth USD 3 billion, including fruit and pork, in retaliation to U.S. duties on steel and aluminium, fuelling fears of a trade war.
Russia on Thursday (March 29th) announced a mass expulsion of U.S. diplomats and the closure of the U.S. consulate in Saint Petersburg in retaliation to coordinated moves by Western countries to isolate Moscow in the wake of the poisoning of a former double agent in Britain.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected for a second term with about 92 per cent of the vote, preliminary results showed on Thursday (March 29), with just over 40 per cent of voters casting ballots.
North and South Korea will hold their first summit in more than a decade on April 27th, South Korean government officials who held high-level talks with their North Korean counterparts on Thursday (March 29th) said.
The United States joined Britain's allies in Europe and around the world Monday (March 26) in expelling scores of suspected Russian spies in response to a nerve agent attack.
At least 53 people were killed by a fire in a shopping mall in the Siberian city of Kemerovo, Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry said on Monday (March 26).
China unveiled plans on Friday (Mar 23) to impose tariffs on up to USD 3 billion of U.S. imports in retaliation against U.S. tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminium products, as the world's two largest economies stood on the brink of a trade war.
Shading my eyes from the bright sun, I stared into the bomb crater amid the verdant rice paddies. While it had been nearly 50 years since the last American planes riddled the countryside near Danang in central Vietnam, craters still pockmark the land.
The Kremlin said on Wednesday (Mar 21) that a decision by the British ambassador to skip a Russian briefing on the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain showed London was unwilling to listen to Moscow's side of the story.
