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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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday that his ambassador to the United States told him two weeks ago that there was an investigation underway there involving Mexico’s former defense secretary, who was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles.
The arrest of Mexico’s former defense minister, …
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 …
