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27.12.2024 14:01 The talks between Chinese and Japanese foreign ministers were friendly, active and positive, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Thursday, in response to media inquiries about the talks between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Takeshi Iwaya on Wednesday.

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27.12.2024 14:01 The US National Defense Authorization Act played up the alleged "China military threat" as an excuse to increase US military spending and maintain its hegemony. This grossly interferes with China's internal affairs and undermines world peace and stability. We are strongly dissatisfied with it and firmly oppose it, Zhang Xiaogang, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense, said on Thursday.

27.12.2024 14:01 The Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy's Type 075 amphibious assault ship has made its first foreign stop with a technical stop in Indonesia. A Chinese military expert said on Thursday that the overseas display of such a strategic weapon underscores the PLA Navy's openness, transparency, and confidence while fostering international exchange and cooperation.

27.12.2024 14:01 The U.S. Congress once again failed to pass a bipartisan bill to reauthorize the North Korean Human Rights Act, or NKHRA, painting a bleak picture for the future of the measure originally adopted by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush in 2004 to ensure the U.S. continues to promote basic freedoms of speech, press and religion in North Korea.

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26.12.2024 12:30 Afghanistan's Taliban rulers were quick to congratulate fellow Islamists from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham on toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government.

26.12.2024 12:30 Pakistani air strikes killed 46 civilians in eastern Afghanistan, the Taliban-led government in Kabul said on December 25, while Islamabad claimed it targeted suspected militant hideouts in border areas.

26.12.2024 12:30 If North Korea's elite troops were expecting an easy campaign against Ukrainian forces entrenched in Russia's Kursk region, they faced a harsh reality on the ground.

26.12.2024 12:30 Syria's security forces have clashed with armed men in the western city of Tartus, leaving several people dead and injured.

26.12.2024 12:30 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Russian forces attacked his country with more than 70 missiles and that targets included Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

26.12.2024 12:30 "Massive" Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure showed no letup as night fell on Christmas Day following what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called an "inhumane" assault by the Kremlin's forces - leaving hundreds of thousands in the bitter cold without heating and causing blackouts in the capital, Kyiv.

26.12.2024 12:30 The cockpit recorder has been recovered intact as authorities stepped up their investigation following the crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet in Kazakhstan that killed at least 38 of the 67 people aboard on December 25.

26.12.2024 12:30 A formal request by Bangladesh to India to extradite former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who fled to India after she was ousted by mass student-led protests, poses a diplomatic conundrum for New Delhi, say analysts.

26.12.2024 12:30 A baby girl froze to death in southern Gaza, the head of the enclave's Ministry of Health said Wednesday. The newborn was at least the third baby to die in recent days in the cold.