
Macron urges China to push for peace, rebalance trade
Beijing (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - French President Emmanuel Macron appealed to Xi Jinping to help end the war in Ukraine and to tackle trade deficits as the two leaders met in Beijing on Thursday.
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Beijing (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - French President Emmanuel Macron appealed to Xi Jinping to help end the war in Ukraine and to tackle trade deficits as the two leaders met in Beijing on Thursday.
Dec 4, 2025

Hong Kong (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - Asian and European markets were mixed Thursday after the latest batch of US data reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates for a third successive time next week.
Dec 4, 2025

New Delhi (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - President Vladimir Putin is set to begin a two-day visit to India on Thursday, seeking to deepen defence ties even as New Delhi faces growing US pressure to stop buying Russian oil.
Dec 4, 2025

London (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - Britain and Norway on Thursday unveiled a new defence pact that will see their navies jointly operate a warship fleet to hunt Russian submarines in the North Atlantic.
Dec 4, 2025

Doral, United States (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - As the United States deploys more military forces and carries out airstrikes on boats in the Caribbean, Venezuelans in South Florida are divided over what President Donald Trump's next moves should be.
Dec 4, 2025

Mons, Belgium (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - NATO is looking to be more proactive in the face of Russian hybrid attacks in a bid to create dilemmas for the Kremlin, the alliance's supreme commander in Europe said Thursday.
Dec 4, 2025

Washington, United States (AFP) Dec 4, 2025 - The United States said Thursday it had approved a $2.68-billion sale of bombs to Canada, where Prime Minister Mark Carney is sharply expanding defense spending amid uncertainties over relations with Washington.
Dec 4, 2025

Taipei (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - Taiwan's intelligence chief said Wednesday that Chinese military aircraft have simulated attacks on foreign warships passing through sensitive waters separating China and Taiwan.
Dec 3, 2025

Brussels, Belgium (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - NATO countries pledged Wednesday to buy hundreds of millions more dollars of US arms for Ukraine, as Russian President Vladimir Putin was told to end his bluster and get serious on peace talks.
Dec 3, 2025

Seoul (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - South Korea's leader said Wednesday that his country wouldn't take sides in an escalating war of words between Japan and China, calling for the two sides to coexist.
Dec 3, 2025

London (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - A high-profile case against two British men accused of spying for China collapsed because of systemic failures and not a government conspiracy, a UK parliamentary inquiry concluded Wednesday.
Dec 3, 2025

Seoul (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - Yoon Suk Yeol's botched attempt to impose martial law last year plunged South Korea into its worst political crisis in decades, providing fertile ground for disinformation to grow.
Dec 3, 2025
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2025 - The OTTER Optical Traffic Tracking Experiment for Responsive Space satellite has entered service in orbit to support maritime monitoring following its launch on 28 November 2025 into an orbit at abo
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec v, 2025 - HawkEye 360 has received 23 months of dedicated funding from the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the Commercial Systems Program Office to expand its role in providing commercial radio-frequ
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Windsor, United Kingdom (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - Britain's King Charles III treated German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to a sumptuous banquet Wednesday, as the pair hailed the countries' deep ties during the first UK state visit by a German head of state in decades.
Dec 3, 2025

Berlin (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 - Germany's military put into service Wednesday the first part of a roughly $4 billion ballistic missile defence system, to better protect Europe at a time of high tensions with Russia.
Dec 3, 2025