China
China calls on Vatican to repair rift
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December 29, 2010China is calling on the Vatican to take the first step to heal a widening rift between Pope Benedict and the state-sanctioned Catholic Church in China. At a news conference in Beijing Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu called for the Vatican...
Chinese Premier visits India to discuss complex relationship
December 16, 2010Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is on a three-day visit to New Delhi for a series of meetings with India's top leaders. The two rising Asian powers insist the world is big enough for both of them to prosper - but negotiations over sensitive security issues...
N. Korean defectors take bigger role in helping others
December 14, 2010The number of North Korean refugees reaching South Korea continues to rise. Most make it with the help of Christian missionaries who take North Koreans along what is called the underground railroad, which runs through China to Southeast Asia, where...
Japan, US agree to enhance military cooperation
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December 09, 2010U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to increase regional military cooperation in wake of increased aggressive acts by North Korea. The top U.S. military officer says he has "a real sense of urgency" about the need for Washington, Tokyo...
US: China must do more to Rein in North Korea
December 09, 2010A top U.S. military officer has accused China of failing to rein in its ally North Korea, following Pyongyang's recent artillery attack near the Korean peninsula. Admiral Mike Mullen said Wednesday in Seoul that China has more influence over North...
Nations press diplomacy in Korean crisis
November 30, 2010Foreign ministers from the United States, Japan and South Korea will meet in Washington next week to plan their next moves in the international stand-off over North Korea. The meeting, announced Tuesday in Tokyo and Seoul, comes as China appeals for...
Wikileaks cables reveal Pakistan nuclear standoff
November 29, 2010Katherine Tiedemann Diplomatic cables released by the web site Wikileaks reveal that since 2007 the U.S. has secretly been trying to remove highly enriched uranium from a Pakistani research reactor, out of concern that it could be diverted for illicit...
US tightens security after leaks
November 29, 2010The White House has ordered government agencies to tighten their handling of classified documents after the latest Wikileaks release. The whistle-blower website has released more than 250,000 US diplomatic cables. They offer candid views of foreign...
Pakistan condemns Wikileaks disclosure of us diplomatic communications
November 29, 2010Pakistan has condemned the release of classified U.S diplomatic communications as an irresponsible act. Excerpts from the documents made public by WikiLeaks have reportedly raised concerns that highly enriched uranium could be diverted from one of...
WikiLeaks releases flood of secret U.S. cables
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November 29, 2010By Breffni O'Rourke WikiLeaks' release of a quarter of a million confidential diplomatic cables will embarrass Washington -- but in all probability will not have more serious policy consequences for the United States. After all, to describe Russian...