China-Europe freight trains have made a cumulative 120,000 trips and transported goods with a total value exceeding 490 billion U.S. dollars, the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (China Railway) said on Friday. The 120,000-trip milestone was achieved with the departure of a freight train on Friday from Chengdu,Continue Reading
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has declined a meeting request from EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, Politico reported, amid continued tensions between the European Union and the Trump administration. According to the report, even officials in the White House who are typically supportive of EU engagement haveContinue Reading
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky received a draft of a proposed new peace plan from the US, his office confirmed in a statement on Thursday, calling it the “American side’s assessment” which could “help reinvigorate diplomacy”. The office also stated that Zelensky plans to discuss diplomatic opportunities with Donald TrumpContinue Reading
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a plane carrying a delegation from the Ministry of Mining, led by Minister Louis Watum Kabamba, crashed during landing at Kolwezi Airport in the south of the country on 17 November. There were no fatalities or injuries, the Congolese radio stationContinue Reading
Japanese residents held a protest in front of the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo on Saturday evening, demanding Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s resignation. About 100 people rallied with banners and shouted slogans such as “Takaichi step down” and “Those who cannot conduct diplomacy are unfit to be primeContinue Reading
— A United States aircraft carrier strike group arrived in Latin America on Tuesday, escalating a military buildup that Venezuela has warned could trigger a full-blown conflict as it announced its own “massive” deployment. The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, entered an area under controlContinue Reading
Japan decried as “absolutely unacceptable” on Wednesday Russia’s extension of an entry ban to 30 more citizens, among them a foreign ministry spokesperson, after Tokyo’s sanctions over Moscow’s nearly four-year-old war in Ukraine. Following similar moves by Western nations, Japan had placed additional sanctions on Russian companies, individualsContinue Reading
France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy has departed a Paris prison after an appeals court granted him release under judicial supervision, less that three weeks after he began serving a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya. Sarkozy’s blackContinue Reading
BREAKING: U.S removes Syrian president, interior minister from specifically designated global terrorist sanction list. Continue Reading
China Rejects Trump’s Claim On Secret Nuclear Weapons Testing Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning Monday dismissed a claim by U.S. President Donald Trump that Beijing is secretly testing nuclear weapons, saying it remains committed to a self-defensive nuclear strategy and its pledge to halt nuclear testing. As aContinue Reading
