Cambodia kicks off drills with ‘great friend’ China as U.S. ties sour
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – China and Cambodia on Saturday kicked off military exercises focused on counter-terrorism and rescue operations, highlighting the strong ties between the two countries amid strained relations between Cambodia and the United State…
Evangelical conservative leads Costa Rica election race: poll
SAN JOSE (Reuters) – Conservative evangelical Christian Fabricio Alvarado Munoz has an effective lead of almost 14 percentage points over ruling party hopeful Carlos Alvarado Quesada in the race to be Costa Rica’s next president, an opinion poll showed…
China’s parliament re-elects Xi Jinping as president
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s largely rubber-stamp parliament on Saturday unanimously re-elected Xi Jinping as the country’s president.
Canada to send helicopters, troops to Mali: government source
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will send helicopters and support troops, including medical staff, to join a United Nations peace-keeping mission in Mali later this year, a senior Canadian government source said late on Friday.
Trump signs U.S.-Taiwan travel bill, angering China
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that encourages the United States to send senior officials to Taiwan to meet Taiwanese counterparts and vice versa, angering China, which views the self-ruled island as a w…
China’s parliament approves government reorganization plan
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s largely rubber-stamp parliament on Saturday approved a government reorganization plan that merges China’s banking and insurance regulators, gives new powers to policymaking bodies such as the central bank and creates new min…
Trump signs U.S.-Taiwan travel bill; China ‘strongly dissatisfied’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that encourages the United States to send senior officials to Taiwan to meet Taiwanese counterparts and vice versa, angering China, which views Taiwan as a wayward province.
Mexican election front-runner offers referendums, could end term early
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican presidential front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday he will hold a referendum on his performance every two years if he wins election in July, and would cut his six-year term short if he loses the consult…
Trump’s back-to-back visitors unlikely to solve Gulf dispute
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Saudi, Emirati and Qatari leaders will beat a path to U.S. President Donald Trump’s door in the next few weeks for back-to-back visits that are unlikely to solve a long-running dispute among America’s Gulf allies.
Trump signs U.S.-Taiwan travel bill that China has opposed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that would allow U.S. officials to travel to Taiwan to meet their Taiwanese counterparts, a move certain to anger China, which views Taiwan as a wayward province.
