Top Chinese official to meet Philippines’ Duterte
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte will meet on Tuesday with China’s Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin, the most high-profile Chinese visitor since he took power last year and launched surprise moves to engage with historic rival …
Elite North Korean defector says more diplomats waiting to defect to Seoul: Yonhap
SEOUL (Reuters) – More high-level North Korean diplomats are waiting to defect to South Korea from their overseas posts in Europe, Pyongyang’s former deputy ambassador to London said on Tuesday, according to the Yonhap News Agency.
Chinese official fired after calling Mao ‘a devil’
BEIJING (Reuters) – An official in northern China has been fired after he called the founder of modern China Mao Zedong a “devil” on social media and called the annual commemoration of Mao’s birthday “the world’s largest cult activity”.
Former U.S. officials urge Trump to talk with Iranian MEK group
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly two dozen former U.S. officials have urged President-elect Donald Trump to enter into discussions with an exiled Iranian opposition group that until 2012 was listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department….
Hundreds of U.S. Marines land in Norway, irking Russia
OSLO (Reuters) – Some 300 U.S. Marines landed in Norway on Monday for a six-month deployment, the first time since World War Two that foreign troops have been allowed to be stationed there, in a deployment which has irked Norway’s Arctic neighbor Russi…
Trump ‘won’t be worse than Obama,’ says Venezuela’s president
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist leader said on Monday that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump was the victim of a global “hate campaign” and could not be worse than outgoing Barack Obama.
Cuba, United States to fight terrorism, drug trafficking and other crimes
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba and the United States on Monday signed an agreement to cooperate in the fight against terrorism, drug trafficking, money laundering and other international criminal activities on the eve of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
China will ‘take off the gloves’ if Trump continues on Taiwan, state media warns
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will “take off the gloves” and take strong action if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump continues to provoke Beijing over Taiwan once he assumes office, two leading state-run newspapers said on Monday.
Top German court to rule on far-right NPD ban
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s Constitutional Court looks likely to reject on Tuesday a historic attempt by the country’s 16 federal states to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD), described by the intelligence agency as racist and anti-Semi…
Senior Canada military officer suspended from duty, no reason given
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s second most powerful military officer has been suspended from duty, defense officials said on Monday, but gave no reason for the unexpected decision.
