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The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the bloc and China share commitment to preserve a nuclear agreement signed between Iran and major world powers in 2015 and to work for its continuation. Mogherini was speaking at a joint press point with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in …

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners currently being held in Israeli jails and detention facilities are expected to launch a hunger strike next week in protest against their detention without charge or trial. Head of the Palestinian Authority’s Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, Issa Qaraqe, said in a statement that some 500 Palestinian inmates …

China has expressed surprise at a new statement from the United States indicating that Washington will go on with imposing trade restrictions on China despite a general consensus reached between the two countries earlier this month. China’s Commerce Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that the general expectation in …

The military chiefs of Pakistan and India have agreed to “fully implement” a ceasefire deal struck in 2003 and stop the recent cross-border exchanges of fire in the disputed Himalayan territory of Kashmir. The agreement between the two rival countries’ director generals of military operations (DGMOs) came after the two military commanders …

Afghan security forces are engaged in a gun battle with militants, who have attacked the Interior Ministry building in the capital, Kabul. A bomb went off  at a checkpoint leading to the building on Wednesday, and then four assailants started shooting, a security source was cited by AFP as saying. …

North, South Korean Leaders Hold Second Meeting in Demilitarized Zone – Reports South Korea’s presidential office said Saturday that the country’s president Moon Jae-in held a meeting with his North Korea’s counterpart Kim Jong-un at the demilitarized zone. “The two leaders exchanged their opinions candidly to implement the April 27 Panmunjom …

Germany and China have agreed to further deepen bilateral cooperation in various fields amid trade threats from US President Donald Trump. The two countries reached the consensus during talks between Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was on an official visit to China. “China’s door is …

Both friends and foes of the US criticized Washington’s relocation of its embassy in the occupied territories from Tel Aviv to al-Quds. Palestine To begin with, Britain reiterated that the administration of Prime Minister Theresa May had no plans to move its mission to al-Quds and still disagree with the …

Pakistani police have detained the father and brother of an Italian woman of Pakistani descent who was strangled in a suspected “honor killing” case. Irfan Sulehri, a senior police officer in Gujrat district of Punjab province, said on Thursday that police had arrested her father, Ghulam Mustafa, and her brother, …

Ten aid workers detained in South Sudan last week were released after the rebel group holding them confirmed their identities as representatives of relief agencies, the rebels said on Monday. Lam Paul Gabriel, a spokesman for the rebel group, the SPLM-IO, said that its fighters detained the aid workers on …