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Russia Resumes Kyiv Strikes After Trump's Peace Envoys Depart Without a Deal

India, Sept. 8 -- The missiles arrived before dawn. Two people were dead in Kyiv by Tuesday morning and seven wounded, the city's administration confirmed, the ceasefire that Vladimir Putin had grante... Read More


Nepal Braces for Second Flood as Barrier Lake at China Border Begins to Overflow

KATHMANDU, Aug. 29 -- Rescue workers searching for more than 1,500 people still missing across Nepal's shattered northern valleys confronted a new emergency Friday: the debris lake that formed at the ... Read More


Japan China Relations: Lawmakers Fly to Beijing to Break Diplomatic Freeze Over Taiwan Comments

TOKYO, Aug. 25 -- For the Japanese companies that depend on Chinese rare earth minerals to manufacture semiconductors, electric vehicle motors, and precision components, the question has never been wh... Read More


India-China Border Talks: NSA Doval Arrives in Beijing for 25th Round with Wang Yi

New Delhi, Aug. 24 -- India staged one of its most compressed diplomatic blitzes of the year on Monday, with Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar in Moscow holding India-Russia BRICS summit talks while Nati... Read More


North Korea Fires 10 Missiles After Trump Curtails Ulchi Freedom Shield, Announces Kim Summit

SEOUL, Aug. 22 -- South Korea's Defence Minister sat in an emergency security meeting Friday as the news came in: more than ten KN-25 missiles, short-range ballistic type, launched from the Pyongyang ... Read More


China and Indonesia Hold First-Ever 2+2 Talks, Plan Naval Drill East of Taiwan

New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- JAKARTA - China has never done this before, not with Russia, not with Pakistan, not with any country. The ministerial format Beijing unveiled on Thursday in Jakarta - a joint for... Read More


Iran War Drains US Military Assets From Asia, Leaving Allies Wary of China

TOKYO, Aug. 22 -- When parts of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence system were shipped out of South Korea last month for use against Iran, the move did not make the front pages in Seoul or Tokyo.... Read More


North Korea Fires 10 Ballistic Missiles a Day After US and South Korea Cut Back Military Exercises

On Wednesday evening, Aug. 21 -- The concession lasted less than twenty-four hours. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's sister and the voice his government uses to communicate its most consequential si... Read More


China Urges South Korea to Reject US Bloc Politics, Blames Washington for Korean Peninsula Tensions

SEOUL, Aug. 20 -- South Korea's new government spent most of this year signaling that it wanted better relations with Beijing. On Wednesday, China made clear what it wants in return. Chinese Foreign ... Read More


South Korea Braces for Worst Case as Trump Cuts Ulchi Freedom Shield Drills

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The 11-day Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises were already underway on Monday when Donald Trump announced he had told the Pentagon to cut them. the exercises were to be "substantial... Read More