Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the southwest on Friday for the first time in a year, a war monitor and rebel officials said, in defiance of U.S. demands that President Bashar al-Assad halt the assault.

The United States is preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 migrant children on four American military bases, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, as federal officials struggled to carry out President Trump’s order to keep immigrant families together after they are apprehended at the border.

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The Trump administration is close to releasing a long-awaited Middle East peace proposal that officials said would present U.S. goals for a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, despite the Palestinian position that President Trump cannot be an honest broker.

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Another U.S. Embassy employee in Cuba has come down with mysterious health symptoms consistent with those suffered by at least two dozen workers at the Havana compound, the State Department said Thursday.

The European Union fought back on Friday against the Trump administration’s tariffs, slapping penalties on an array of American products that target the president’s political base, like bourbon, motorcycles and orange juice.

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India joined the European Union and other U.S. trading partners in retaliating against the Trump administration’s tariff hikes on steel and aluminum Thursday by raising import duties on a variety of goods, including almonds, apples and some metal products.

The United States said on Thursday it had imposed visa bans on several senior officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo for corruption tied to the country’s electoral process to send a “strong signal” about the need for a peaceful transfer of power.

Five Latin American countries are trying a humanitarian legal maneuver to change America’s treatment of families at the border. Now what?

To drill or not to drill? It shouldn't even be a question.

The tale of a bombing raid in the Libyan desert, pitting stealth bombers and 500-pound bombs against 70 ragtag fighters.

The best step forward for the U.S. and China is aiming for a constructive relationship based on interdependence and confidence wherein both sides can predictably pursue their rational self-interest.

A meeting of major oil producers here in the Austrian capital has been dedicated to the theme of “cooperation for a sustainable future.” Soon after proceedings kicked off on Wednesday, though, the political tensions between them were laid bare.

President Trump caved to enormous political pressure on Wednesday and signed an executive order meant to end the separation of families at the border by detaining parents and children together for an indefinite period.

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The missile engine test site that President Donald Trump said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had committed to destroy is a major facility in the western part of the country that has been used for testing engines for long-range missiles, according to a U.S. official.

John Bolton, national security adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, is expected to visit Moscow soon, the Kremlin said on Thursday, giving the clearest sign yet that a proper summit between Mr. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin could be in the works.

President Trump will meet Queen Elizabeth II during his long-delayed first trip to Britain next month, the United States ambassador to Britain said on Wednesday, an encounter that could reignite furor among British critics who oppose his deeply divisive policies and his polarizing personality.

Canadian border guards have been screening travelers using a huge, secretive U.S. anti-terrorism database that is almost never referred to publicly, new documents reveal.

President Donald Trump’s Mideast team arrived in Egypt on Thursday as part of its regional tour to discuss a blueprint for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

The U.S. military is expecting the repatriation of U.S. service members’ remains from North Korea in coming days, officials said Wednesday, a sign of renewed cooperation between the two countries in the wake of President Trump’s summit with Kim Jong Un.

Nightfall in El Salvador’s capital was fast approaching and Ernesto Pena was waiting for a bus that never arrived. His work day delivering rice and cooking oil to street vendors in the bustling district of Santa Tecla had ended and like most people he was anxious to get home before the gangs that control the poor neighborhood where he lives enforce an informal curfew.

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The opposite of populist nationalism is not globalist elitism; it is economic realism. And in the end, countries such as Britain, the United States, and now Italy will learn the hard way that reality always eventually wins.

Group identity is all.

The U.S., which withdrew from the organization Tuesday, had sought to reform it.

China is North Korea’s main trading partner and its key ally in international negotiations. That support, however, has its limits.

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Trump faces opposition from both sides of the aisle, as lawmakers view the Chinese telecoms company as a national security threat.

Venezuela has the ability to boost crude output by 1 million barrels per day by end of the year in its bid to recover lost production, but the oil minister also said on Friday this goal would be “a challenge” for state oil firm PDVSA.

The United States is preparing to shelter as many as 20,000 migrant children on four American military bases, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, as federal officials struggled to carry out President Trump’s order to keep immigrant families together after they are apprehended at the border.

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Another U.S. Embassy employee in Cuba has come down with mysterious health symptoms consistent with those suffered by at least two dozen workers at the Havana compound, the State Department said Thursday.

Mexican leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has forged a coalition of voters of all stripes in a bid to win the presidency at the third time of asking and now, with victory within his grasp, he must work out how to hold it together.

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Nicaragua’s National Police pledged on Thursday to halt violence by supporters of President Daniel Ortega against the opposition-led city of Masaya, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes said.

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More than 800 Salvadoran labor union members protested in the streets of San Salvador to denounce what they see as a scheme by big business and right-wing parties to privatize water.

Five Latin American countries are trying a humanitarian legal maneuver to change America’s treatment of families at the border. Now what?

President Trump caved to enormous political pressure on Wednesday and signed an executive order meant to end the separation of families at the border by detaining parents and children together for an indefinite period.

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Canadian border guards have been screening travelers using a huge, secretive U.S. anti-terrorism database that is almost never referred to publicly, new documents reveal.

Skepticism swells that the poor and isolated South American nation will reap the promised billions of dollars from an ExxonMobil-led project.

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Weeks before Mexico’s presidential election, some of the country’s biggest companies issued dire written warnings to their employees, cautioning them not to be misled by dangerous populists. They were thinly veiled admonitions about one candidate—the man who appears increasingly likely to become this country’s next president: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.

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Senior officials of Brazil and Kazakhstan met on Wednesday to sign an extradition treaty and two other agreements on judicial cooperation.

Two mayoral candidates in two different Mexican towns have been killed in less than 24 hours, marking a total of at least 18 candidates killed so far in campaigns leading up to the July 1 elections.

Nightfall in El Salvador’s capital was fast approaching and Ernesto Pena was waiting for a bus that never arrived. His work day delivering rice and cooking oil to street vendors in the bustling district of Santa Tecla had ended and like most people he was anxious to get home before the gangs that control the poor neighborhood where he lives enforce an informal curfew.

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The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund approved on Wednesday a three-year Stand-By Arrangement for Argentina amounting to $50 billion.

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Ivan Duque’s alliances and campaign promises will make reconciliation difficult.

How scared should the world be of Mexico’s likely next president?

Mexican officials say three LGBTQ activists have been shot dead and left along a highway in the troubled southern state of Guerrero.

Venezuela’s all-powerful Constituent Assembly elected as its head on Tuesday Socialist Party No. 2 Diosdado Cabello, boosting the profile of a political leader who the United States has accused of being a coordinator of international drug shipments.

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Incoming Paraguay President Mario Abdo will name his half-brother and former central bank board member Benigno Lopez as finance minister when he is sworn in on August 15, the transition team said on Tuesday.

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Bolivia and China agreed to establish a strategic partnership and signed several other agreements on Tuesday in Beijing, including the opening up of the Chinese market to Bolivian products like quinoa and coffee.

The European Union fought back on Friday against the Trump administration’s tariffs, slapping penalties on an array of American products that target the president’s political base, like bourbon, motorcycles and orange juice.

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Romania’s highest court Thursday sentenced Liviu Dragnea, the leader of the country’s governing Social Democratic Party, to three years and six months in jail for abuse of office.

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Italy appeared to relent on Thursday after at first refusing to accept 226 migrants on board a German charity rescue ship, saying later in the day it would take them in but would impound the vessel.

Russia intends to continue playing its part in the search for a solution to the weapons standoff on the Korean Peninsula, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Moscow on Friday at talks with the visiting South Korean president, Moon Jae-in.

Eurozone states have agreed on a plan that they say will allow Greece to exit its eight-year bailout program and make its massive debts more manageable.

Although she may be thousands of kilometers from the political troubles around resettlement of Syrians back home, the issue of refugee support will be at the forefront of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Beirut.

The EU and New Zealand on Thursday launched negotiations for a "comprehensive and ambitious" trade agreement, the European Commission said in a statement.

The country’s hard-line interior minister keeps stoking uproar with his inflammatory rhetoric—and it only makes him more popular.

Markus Soder is stoking opposition to the German chancellor’s migration policies.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday promised a $100 million loan to troubled Jordan, where mass protests over austerity measures forced the prime minister to resign earlier this month.

Prime Minister Theresa May won a crucial Brexit vote in parliament on Wednesday, keeping her divided government’s plans to end more than 40 years of British partnership with the European Union on track.

The Hungarian Parliament approved a package of laws on Wednesday that criminalizes the act of helping undocumented migrants and creates a parallel court system that some fear will be used for politically sensitive cases, accelerating efforts by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to transform the country into what he calls an “illiberal democracy.”

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will meet with a senior European Union delegation in Beijing next week, China’s Commerce Ministry said on Thursday.

John Bolton, national security adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, is expected to visit Moscow soon, the Kremlin said on Thursday, giving the clearest sign yet that a proper summit between Mr. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin could be in the works.

Fears of a Chinese takeover of companies important to national security have felled deals around the world both big and small. Now even the sale of a minor airplane parts maker is being closely examined for serious risks.

Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday a report that she had questioned the United Kingdom’s status as a “tier one” military power was incorrect.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Thursday a draft EU accord on migration had been withdrawn after he clashed with Chancellor Angela Merkel over an issue that is splitting Europe.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said leaders of the Visegrad Four countries of Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic will skip this weekend’s mini-summit on migration in Brussels.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Europe to “urgently” take measures to counter Iran’s “aggressive” activities in the Middle East.

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President Moon Jae-in has expressed gratitude for Russia’s role and support in bringing the current detente to the Korean Peninsula, and wants economic cooperation between Russia and the two Koreas if a peace regime is established in the region.

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday held talks with Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen in Beijing.

The opposite of populist nationalism is not globalist elitism; it is economic realism. And in the end, countries such as Britain, the United States, and now Italy will learn the hard way that reality always eventually wins.

The Kremlin has prepared for the soccer tournament by cracking down on terror threats—the wrong kind.

Bulgaria’s main opposition party filed a motion of no-confidence in Prime Minister Boyko Borissov’s government on Wednesday, saying it had failed to combat domestic crime and reform its security services.

The Armenian parliament on Tuesday stripped a member of parliament from the former ruling party of immunity and supported a prosecutor’s motion to launch criminal proceedings against him.

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Google, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech giants could face more curbs on their market power after a European Parliament committee voted in favor of tougher copyright rules on Wednesday.

As Greece prepares to emerge from one of the region’s most wrenching economic periods, its creditors are drawing up plans to ensure it is never a problem for the rest of Europe again.

South Sudan said Friday it would no longer have anything to do with opposition leader Riek Machar and that “enough is enough,” dampening hopes for any resolution to the savage conflict racking the world’s newest country.

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Congolese opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba, whose war crimes convictions were quashed last month, is expected to return to Congo next month for a party congress to select a candidate for December’s presidential vote, a party spokesman said on Friday.

Seychelles parliament will not ratify a pact allowing India to build naval facilities on one of the archipelago’s islands, a top foreign affairs ministry official said on Friday.

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The Libyan National Army has recaptured the country’s largest oil port and a neighboring refinery, but the rival militias it ousted have since launched a fierce counter attack.

The United States said on Thursday it had imposed visa bans on several senior officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo for corruption tied to the country’s electoral process to send a “strong signal” about the need for a peaceful transfer of power.

Civil war broke out in South Sudan in 2013. The violence is now in its fifth year and millions are struggling—not just with the fighting, but also with the humanitarian disasters it has precipitated. This year, warnings of the risk of famine are back.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has issued new security measures intended to stop a disturbing trend of assassinations. Addressing parliament, Museveni blamed police, elements of which he said are colluding with criminals.

Early this month, the Ethiopian government declared that it was finally ready to implement a peace deal it signed with Eritrea nearly two decades ago. The Eritrean government didn’t respond to the announcement for over two weeks — until Wednesday, when President Isaias Afwerki said that “the positive direction that has been set in motion is crystal clear.”

At least 39 people have been killed since the start of May by a mysterious group apparently seeking to impose a militant form of Islam in Cabo Delgado, not far from one of the world’s biggest untapped offshore gasfields.

South Sudan’s armed opposition on Thursday rejected any “imposition” of a peace deal and asked for more time after the first face-to-face meeting between President Salva Kiir and rival Riek Machar in almost two years.

Morocco and Mauritania are showing willingness to start a new page after undergoing a silent storm on the backdrop of Nouakchott’s ambiguous stands on the Sahara issue.

East Libyan forces said on Thursday they had retaken the shuttered oil ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, hours after clashes resumed south of Ras Lanuf during a counter-attack by rival factions.

Anglophone separatists in Cameroon have killed 81 members of the security forces and more than 100 civilians in their months-long campaign for independence, according to a government report obtained by AFP on Wednesday.

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Libya's oil output has dropped by nearly half following clashes between rival groups in the country's key oil export ports, the head of the National Oil Company said on Wednesday.

Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the southwest on Friday for the first time in a year, a war monitor and rebel officials said, in defiance of U.S. demands that President Bashar al-Assad halt the assault.

The Trump administration is close to releasing a long-awaited Middle East peace proposal that officials said would present U.S. goals for a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, despite the Palestinian position that President Trump cannot be an honest broker.

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The kingdom of Saudi Arabia threw its weight behind the Afghan government’s attempts to kindle a peace process with the Taliban this week, reflecting growing international pressure to bring Afghanistan’s long war to a negotiated end.

OPEC agreed on Friday on a modest increase in oil production from July after its leader Saudi Arabia persuaded arch-rival Iran to cooperate amid calls from major consumers to help reduce the price of crude and avoid a supply shortage.

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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he will cut the number of ministries sharply to 16 and speed up decision-making in the next government if he wins an election on Sunday which will herald a transition to an executive presidency.

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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main rival in Sunday’s presidential election have both pledged to send millions of Syrian refugees home, responding to growing unease among voters about the number of migrants in Turkey.

The Libyan National Army has recaptured the country’s largest oil port and a neighboring refinery, but the rival militias it ousted have since launched a fierce counter attack.

Although she may be thousands of kilometers from the political troubles around resettlement of Syrians back home, the issue of refugee support will be at the forefront of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Beirut.

The lifting of Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving from Sunday is a long-awaited move for both local women and those in neighboring countries, many of whom expect the freedom to travel independently across borders to be transformative to their careers and relationships.

The tale of a bombing raid in the Libyan desert, pitting stealth bombers and 500-pound bombs against 70 ragtag fighters.

Today’s turmoil in the Middle East is rooted largely in historical legacies and poor leadership, but the influence of religion hasn’t helped. So it is good news that, from Saudi Arabia to Israel to Iraq, religion is increasingly being superseded by strategic and security interests in shaping regional affairs.

Concessions on women’s rights in Saudi Arabia often appear during times of turmoil or transition.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday promised a $100 million loan to troubled Jordan, where mass protests over austerity measures forced the prime minister to resign earlier this month.

A meeting of major oil producers here in the Austrian capital has been dedicated to the theme of “cooperation for a sustainable future.” Soon after proceedings kicked off on Wednesday, though, the political tensions between them were laid bare.

Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was formally charged Thursday with fraud and breach of public trust in a long-running corruption case involving the use of outside caterers in the official prime minister’s residence, state prosecutors said in a statement.

Syrian government forces pounded rebel-held areas of the southwest with artillery on Thursday, in a steady escalation by President Bashar al-Assad who has vowed to win back the area bordering Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

President Donald Trump’s Mideast team arrived in Egypt on Thursday as part of its regional tour to discuss a blueprint for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Europe to “urgently” take measures to counter Iran’s “aggressive” activities in the Middle East.

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Iraq’s Supreme Court on Thursday endorsed a manual recount of all ballots from last month’s national elections, but it rejected the invalidation of ballots from abroad and from voters displaced by recent conflict.

Iran on Thursday dispatched two warships to the Gulf of Aden, where for the last week fighting has raged between the Yemeni army and Houthi rebels over Yemen’s Al-Hudaydah province.

Thousands of civilians have fled regime bombardment on rebel-held areas in Syria’s southern province of Deraa since Tuesday, with most moving into other rebel-held areas in the south, according to media reports.

Turkey has a history of coups. Whoever wins the election must prevent politicization of the military.

In Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia, women will take the wheel. How much is really changing?

The torturers followed a schedule. Beatings on Saturdays, torture on Sundays, and Monday was a break. The next three days were the same routine. On Fridays, it was time for solitary confinement.

Syrian government troops and affiliated forces committed war crimes and a crime against humanity in their long siege of eastern Ghouta through heavy bombardment and “deliberately starving” 265,000 people, U.N. investigators said on Wednesday.

Libya's oil output has dropped by nearly half following clashes between rival groups in the country's key oil export ports, the head of the National Oil Company said on Wednesday.

Kurdish militants fired on military vehicles in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, killing two soldiers and wounding another, the local governor’s office said, in the latest of a series of attacks.

The kingdom of Saudi Arabia threw its weight behind the Afghan government’s attempts to kindle a peace process with the Taliban this week, reflecting growing international pressure to bring Afghanistan’s long war to a negotiated end.

India joined the European Union and other U.S. trading partners in retaliating against the Trump administration’s tariff hikes on steel and aluminum Thursday by raising import duties on a variety of goods, including almonds, apples and some metal products.

Taliban militants killed at least 16 Afghan police and two civilians in western Badghis province after their three-day ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday ended at the weekend, officials said on Friday.

China will build a railway connecting the western region of Tibet with Nepal, the China Daily reported on Friday, one of several bilateral deals signed during Nepali Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli’s visit to Beijing.

Russia intends to continue playing its part in the search for a solution to the weapons standoff on the Korean Peninsula, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in Moscow on Friday at talks with the visiting South Korean president, Moon Jae-in.

Seychelles parliament will not ratify a pact allowing India to build naval facilities on one of the archipelago’s islands, a top foreign affairs ministry official said on Friday.

More from WPR: India Gains a New Naval Foothold in the Seychelles to Counter China’s Ambitions

South and North Korea agreed to hold reunions of families separated by the 1950-53 Korean War from Aug. 20 to 26 at Mount Geumgang in the North, in Red Cross talks held Friday.

Both Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and visiting Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Neill have expressed willingness to cooperate more between the two countries in the future.

The EU and New Zealand on Thursday launched negotiations for a "comprehensive and ambitious" trade agreement, the European Commission said in a statement.

Former East Timor independence fighter Jose Maria de Vasconcelos was sworn in as prime minister on Friday and pledged to bring unity to the tiny Southeast Asian nation after months of political deadlock.

More from WPR: East Timor’s New Government Must Deliver More, With Less to Spend

To drill or not to drill? It shouldn't even be a question.

Corruption and a lack of expertise are partly to blame.

The best step forward for the U.S. and China is aiming for a constructive relationship based on interdependence and confidence wherein both sides can predictably pursue their rational self-interest.

Chinese Vice Premier Liu He will meet with a senior European Union delegation in Beijing next week, China’s Commerce Ministry said on Thursday.

The missile engine test site that President Donald Trump said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had committed to destroy is a major facility in the western part of the country that has been used for testing engines for long-range missiles, according to a U.S. official.

Propaganda departments in China and North Korea were in full swing on Wednesday as Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, concluded a two-day tour of China that painted the once-reclusive autocrat as a forward-looking leader.

Japan has decided to halt evacuation drills to prepare for a potential North Korean missile attack as tensions had eased following a historic summit between the leaders of the United States and North Korea, Kyodo news agency reported on Thursday.

Senior officials of Brazil and Kazakhstan met on Wednesday to sign an extradition treaty and two other agreements on judicial cooperation.

Fears of a Chinese takeover of companies important to national security have felled deals around the world both big and small. Now even the sale of a minor airplane parts maker is being closely examined for serious risks.

The U.S. military is expecting the repatriation of U.S. service members’ remains from North Korea in coming days, officials said Wednesday, a sign of renewed cooperation between the two countries in the wake of President Trump’s summit with Kim Jong Un.

President Moon Jae-in has expressed gratitude for Russia’s role and support in bringing the current detente to the Korean Peninsula, and wants economic cooperation between Russia and the two Koreas if a peace regime is established in the region.

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday held talks with Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen in Beijing.

Police in Vietnam arrested four executives of state oil firm PetroVietnam’s subsidiaries on suspicion of embezzlement on Thursday as the communist-led government widens a crackdown on corruption.

More from WPR: What’s Behind Vietnam’s Unprecedented Crackdown on Corruption?

The newly energized democracy is missing the chance to make its diplomatic mark in the region.

China is North Korea’s main trading partner and its key ally in international negotiations. That support, however, has its limits.

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Bolivia and China agreed to establish a strategic partnership and signed several other agreements on Tuesday in Beijing, including the opening up of the Chinese market to Bolivian products like quinoa and coffee.

Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways now refer to Taiwan as a Chinese territory on Chinese-language websites.

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New pipelines could be laid to bring Russian gas through North Korea to the South and even on to Japan following the diplomatic thaw with Pyongyang, Seoul’s leader suggested on Wednesday.

China stands ready to strengthen cooperation with Nepal in infrastructure connectivity, post-disaster reconstruction, trade and investment under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday.

Trump faces opposition from both sides of the aisle, as lawmakers view the Chinese telecoms company as a national security threat.