Author: Leslie Stephens

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) – The Chinese ambassador to Canada warned the Trudeau government on Thursday not to grant asylum to Hong Kong residents fleeing a widely criticized national security law imposed by Beijing.

Ambassador Cong Peiwu branded pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong as violent criminals and said if Canada …

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s top diplomat said Thursday that the country’s former defense secretary, Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, has been arrested in Los Angeles.

Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard wrote Thursday in his Twitter account that U.S. Ambassador Christopher Landau had informed him of Cienfuegos’ arrest.

The general served from 2012 …

BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s prime minister rejected calls for his resignation Friday as his government stepped up efforts to stop student-led protesters from rallying in the capital for a second day in defiance of a strict state of emergency.

Police closed roads and put up barricades around a major Bangkok …

LONDON (AP) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday that the U.K. must prepare for a no-deal break with the European Union unless there is a “fundamental” change of position from the bloc, as the two sides swapped blame for failing to strike a deal with just weeks until …

BRUSSELS (AP) – Another day at the European Union summit, another leader gone away.

Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin said Friday that she had left the summit of heads of states and governments in Belgium on its final day “as a precautionary measure” after learning that a Finnish lawmaker …

BEIJING (AP) – Following scathing political attacks from the Trump administration, China on Friday defended its Confucius Institutes as apolitical facilitators of cultural and language exchange.

The administration last week urged U.S. schools and colleges to rethink their ties to the institutes that bring Chinese language classes to America …

BEIRUT (AP) – Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun told a visiting U.S. official Friday that his country “heavily relies” on Washington’s mediation regarding a disputed maritime border with Israel, and hopes the United States can help the sides overcome difficulties they may face.

Aoun’s comments were released by his office following …

MOSCOW (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday made a strong call to save the last existing nuclear arms control pact between his country and the United States, proposing to extend it at least for one year.

Putin’s statement comes amid conflicting signals from Russian and U.S. diplomats about …

BRUSSELS (AP) – A planned European Union summit on the bloc’s China policy that was to be held in Berlin next month has been called off because of the resurgent coronavirus pandemic, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday.

The 27-nation EU’s leaders had planned to meet in Berlin on Nov. …

SANAA, Yemen (AP) – Yemen’s warring sides completed a major, U.N.-brokered prisoner swap on Friday, officials said, a development that could revive the country’s stalled peace process after more than five years of grinding conflict.

This week’s prisoner release, the largest-ever in the war, marks a breakthrough in the implementation …