India said Monday it had signed a “significant” deal that will see the United States supply nearly 10 percent of the Asian giant’s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) imports, as it seeks to diversify its energy sources.
South Korea’s military on Monday proposed talks with the North to avoid border clashes, citing recent incursions by North Korean troops.
The Kurdish militant PKK said on Monday that its forces had withdrawn from a key border area in northern Iraq in a move aimed at shoring up the peace process with Turkey.
Japan said on Monday that it scrambled aircraft after detecting a suspected Chinese drone near its southernmost island following comments by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Taiwan.
US President Donald Trump alluded to possible upcoming talks with Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro after the State Department announced plans to designate a cartel that it claims Maduro runs as a foreign terrorist organization.
Ecuadoran voters roundly rejected the return of US military bases to the country in a referendum Sunday, a major political blow to Trump-friendly President Daniel Noboa.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his government underscored their opposition to a Palestinian state ahead of a UN Security Council vote Monday on a resolution endorsing a US-backed Gaza peace plan.
Britain’s interior minister on Sunday defended plans to drastically reduce protections for refugees and end automatic benefits for asylum seekers, insisting that irregular migration was “tearing our country apart”.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said Sunday that Israeli soldiers had shot at its peacekeepers from a tank near an army position in the country’s south.
Ecuadorans began voting on Sunday on whether to allow the return of foreign military bases and the drafting of a new constitution that could give the country’s Trump-friendly president more power.
