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Venezuela restricts diplomats from 'hostile' European countries
AFP, Published on 15/01/2025
» CARACAS - Venezuela on Tuesday announced restrictions on French, Italian and Dutch diplomats on its soil, citing their governments' "hostile" response to Nicolas Maduro's presidential inauguration, widely rejected as a power grab.
The fight to save 'sacred' Carpathian forests from loggers
AFP, Published on 02/08/2023
» CARPATHIANS - Vast gaps in the forest canopy are visible from above Romania's Carpathian mountains, while stumps studding the ground are reminders of the trees chopped into logs and piled beside dirt roads.
Chinese official backs Hong Kong judicial 'reform' calls
AFP, Published on 17/11/2020
» HONG KONG: A senior Chinese official on Tuesday backed calls to "reform" Hong Kong's judiciary, in a landmark speech signalling Beijing's determination to assert more control over the city's independent legal system.
China's defence spending to accelerate in 2018
AFP, Published on 05/03/2018
» BEIJING: China announced on Monday an 8.1 percent defence budget increase for 2018, giving a boost to the modernisation of the world's largest military after spending slowed in the previous two years.
China's defence spending to accelerate in 2018
AFP, Published on 05/03/2018
» BEIJING - China announced on Monday an 8.1 percent defence budget increase for 2018, giving the world's largest armed forces a boost after spending slowed in the previous two years.