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China defends buzzing American warship and Canadian frigate in Taiwan Strait
A photo provided by the U.S. Navy taken from the deck of the USS Milius, a Destroyer on patrol in the Taiwan Strait, between the island and the mainland of China, April 16, 2023. Both the Biden administrationÕs defense secretary and national security adviser pressed Beijing in recent speeches, warning of the risks of military mishaps and any escalation of a nuclear arms rivalry, prompting a vehement accusation from a Chinese general that Washington was stoking confrontation. (U.S. Navy via The New York Times) Ñ NO SALES, FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. Ñ
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China seeks dialogue, says clash with U.S. would be ‘unbearable disaster’
Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu delivers his speech on the last day of the 20th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's annual defense and security forum, in Singapore, Sunday, June 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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Kim Jong Un’s sister vows North Korea’s second attempt to launch spy satellite, slams UN meeting
FILE - Kim Yo Jong attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, on March 2, 2019. The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed again Sunday, June 3, 2023, to push for a second attempt to launch a spy satellite as she lambasted a U.N. Security Council meeting over the North’s first, failed launch. (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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Three Israeli soldiers, Egyptian officer killed in gun battle at the border
This is a locator map of Israel and the Palestinian Territories. (AP Photo)
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Counteroffensive on track despite Russian missile barrages: Ukrainian defence official
Local residents get free meals from volunteers against the background of their apartment house, damaged in the Russian rocket attack, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
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China’s snub of U.S. military leader highlights escalation risk
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin attends the First Plenary Session of the 20th IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore June 3, 2023. REUTERS/Caroline Chia
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited to address Congress
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi walks to receive Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal (not pictured) before their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on June 1, 2023. (Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) (Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Asia security summit kicks off amid U.S.-China tensions
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese deliver keynote address during the opening dinner for the 20th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's annual defense and security forum, in Singapore, Friday, June 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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White House wants to engage Russia on nuclear arms control in post-treaty world
FILE PHOTO: Russian and U.S. state flags fly near a factory in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, Russia March 27, 2019. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov/File Photo
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U.S. seeking explosives in Japan for Ukraine artillery shells
Ukrainian service members of the 55th Separate Artillery Brigade fire a Caesar self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the town of Avdiivka in Donetsk region, Ukraine May 31, 2023. REUTERS/Viacheslav Ratynskyi TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Zelensky presses NATO, EU case at Moldova summit close to Ukraine’s border
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attends a welcome ceremony during a meeting of the European Political Community at Mimi Castle in Bulboaca, Moldova June 1, 2023. REUTERS/Vladislav Culiomza
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North Korean leader’s sister slams U.S. for criticizing failed satellite launch
FILE - This photo provided by the North Korean government, Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, delivers a speech during a national meeting against the coronavirus, in Pyongyang, North Korea on Aug. 10, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)
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Palestinian officials say Israeli strike on eastern Lebanon kills five militants, Israel denies role
A picture taken from the plain of Khiam shows a Lebanese army soldier standing guard as Israeli troops patrol the border on their side, following skirmishes between Lebanese youths and Israeli soldiers, at a rally to mark the 23rd anniversary of Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon, during which tear gas was fired, on May 25, 2023. (Photo by Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP) (Photo by MAHMOUD ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russia reports strikes on oil refineries and town near Ukraine
Russian law enforcement officers stand guard near a damaged multi-storey apartment block following a reported drone attack in Moscow, Russia, May 30, 2023. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina
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One killed in fresh wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine
Ukrainian servicemen use a searchlight as they search for drones in the sky over the city during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 30, 2023. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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North Korea tells neighbouring Japan it plans to launch satellite in coming days
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida arrives for a bilateral meeting with Laos' President Thongloun Sisoulith, at the prime ministers's office in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, May 25, 2023.(AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama, Pool)
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Ukraine says Russia plotting ‘a provocation’ at nuclear plant, offers no evidence
FILE - Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is seen from around twenty kilometers away in an area in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. A statement released Friday, May 26, 2023, by the intelligence directorate of Ukraine's Defense Ministry claimed that Russian forces would strike the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, and then report a radioactive leak in order to trigger an international probe that would pause the hostilities and give the Russian forces the respite they need to regroup ahead of the counteroffensive. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
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North Korea spent the pandemic building a huge border wall
FILE PHOTO-A North Korean flag flutters at the propaganda village of Gijungdong in North Korea, in this picture taken near the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, South Korea, July 19, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/Pool
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The frontlines in the Russia-Ukraine war have started to move
A fighter of the Russian Volunteer Corps poses on a seized armoured personnel carrier during a presentation for the media in northern Ukraine, not far from the Russian border, on May 24, 2023, amid Russian military invasion on Ukraine. Russian nationals fighting on Ukraine's side on May 24 hailed as a "success" a brazen mission to send groups of volunteers across the border into southern Russia and back. Russia on May 23 said it deployed jets and artillery to fight off armed attackers who crossed into the southern region of Belgorod from Ukraine, exposing weaknesses on Moscow's frontier. (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK / AFP) (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images)
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Canada backs Ukraine’s application to join trans-Pacific trade pact
Canada's Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development Mary Ng speaks at a Lunar New Year celebration in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada January 31, 2023. REUTERS/Blair Gable
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Sanctioned China stocks win sudden boost from patriotic buyers
An investor looks at screens showing stock market movements at a securities company in Nanjing in China's eastern Jiangsu province on July 6, 2020.
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Chinese rank Russia as trusted global partner over Japan and U.S., survey says
China's President Xi Jinping walks past honour guards during a welcoming ceremony at Moscow's Vnukovo airport on March 20, 2023. - Chinese leader arrived in Moscow on Monday saying his first state visit to Russia since the Ukraine conflict broke out would give "new momentum" to bilateral ties. (Photo by Anatoliy Zhdanov / Kommersant Photo / AFP) / Russia OUT (Photo by ANATOLIY ZHDANOV/Kommersant Photo/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukraine joining NATO in the midst of a war ‘not on the agenda’, says Jens Stoltenberg
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg arrives for a meeting with EU defense ministers at the European Council building in Brussels, Tuesday May 23, 2023. The European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Tuesday that the U.S. green light to allow Ukrainian pilots get training to fly F-16s has created an inexorable momentum that will inevitably bring the fighter jets to the Ukrainian battlefield. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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Warship guarding Black Sea pipelines attacked by unmanned Ukraine craft, Russia claims
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to the Constitutional Court Chairman Valery Zorkin during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia. Mikhail Klimentyev in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Russia’s Wagner boss says more than 20,000 of his troops died in Bakhmut battle
Ukrainian soldiers on a tank ride along the road towards their positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 23, 2023.(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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China and Russia strengthen ties with new economic deals
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands prior to their talks in Beijing, China, Wednesday, May 24, 2023. (Alexander Astafyev, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP)
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Russia claims it defeated incursion from Ukraine in 24-hour battle
FILE - Ukrainian soldiers fire a self-propelled howitzer towards Russian positions near Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Despite Russian claims to have captured the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, top Ukrainian military leaders insist the grinding nine-month battle there is not over. Although Ukraine now controls only a small part of the city, Kyiv says its troops played a key role in the strategy of exhausting Russian forces and will carry on with the fighting.(AP Photo/Libkos, File)
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China’s Micron ban revives U.S. trade tensions, fuels Asian chip rally
A person walks out of a building where the facilities of US semiconductor giant Micron is located in Shanghai on May 22, 2023. US semiconductor giant Micron has failed a national security review, China's cybersecurity watchdog said on May 21, telling operators of "critical information infrastructure" to stop buying its products. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russia battles cross-border raids; nothing to do with us, says Ukraine
FILE - Smoke rises from buildings in this aerial view of Bakhmut, the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian troops in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 26, 2023. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday, May 21, 2023 that Russian forces weren't occupying Bakhmut, casting doubt on Moscow's insistence that the eastern Ukrainian city had fallen. The fog of war made it impossible to confirm the situation on the ground in the invasion’s longest battle, and the comments from Ukrainian and Russian officials added confusion to the matter. (AP Photo/Libkos, File)
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German Chancellor visits Korean DMZ, urges North to stop missile tests
FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks to journalists during the Group of Seven (G7) nations' meetings Sunday, May 21, 2023, in Hiroshima, western Japan. Louise Delmotte/Pool via REUTERS
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G7 takes a tough line on China even as it leaves room open for economic engagement
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, U.S. President Joe Biden, Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Council Charles Michel, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, France's President Emmanuel Macron and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attend a working session on Ukraine at the G7 leaders' summit in Hiroshima, Japan May 21, 2023, in this photo released by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo via REUTERS Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. JAPAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN JAPAN.
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G7 leaders warn China not to conduct ‘interference’ as Trudeau meets with Zelensky
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left to right, follows French President Emmanuel Macron and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as they take their places for a family photo at the G7 Summit, Saturday, May 20, 2023 in Hiroshima, Japan. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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G7 urges China to pressure Russia to end war in Ukraine, respect Taiwan’s status and fair trade rules
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) gestures before the start of a bilateral meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the sidelines of the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima on May 20, 2023. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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World leaders warn China and North Korea on nukes as Ukraine’s Zelensky travels to G7 summit
FILE - In this photo provided by Saudi Press Agency, SPA, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, second right, is greeted by Prince Badr Bin Sultan, deputy governor of Mecca, right, upon his arrival at Jeddah airport, Saudi Arabia, Friday, May 19, 2023. Japan’s government officially announced Saturday that Zelenskyy is visiting Japan to join Group of Seven leaders in a session on Ukraine on Sunday. (Saudi Press Agency via AP, File)