China corners vital market
In the race to build advanced industrial and military products, China has a key advantage: the world's biggest reserves of rare earth minerals that are essential to many of these products.
‘West should be fairer in approaching Turkey,’ says report
A new report from the International Crisis Group, ‘Turkey’s crisis over Israel and Iran,’ says the country’s Western partners ‘should be fairer’ in approaching Turkey. The report says the West should not use one-sided presentations of its policy on Iran or Israel to decide whether or not it is ‘Western’ and ‘European’
China seeks stable ties with U.S.
Trying to smooth over recently rocky relations before a visit to Washington, Chinese President Hu Jintao yesterday told American officials that he wanted to see healthy and stable ties between the two countries. The meeting between Hu
Russia, Kazakhstan sign package of agreements
Russia and Kazakhstan have signed a package of agreements, including a document on the joint development of the Imashevskoye gas condensate field.
Iran says it is self-sufficient in petrol
Iran has raised its gasoline output to attain self-sufficiency in the strategic product and foil sanctions targeting its energy needs, the state television’s website reported its oil minister as saying.
China to push forward WTO talks: vice president
China will work with other members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to push forward the global trade talks, Vice President Xi Jinping said here Tuesday.
Putin says Russia has nothing to fear from China
Russia has nothing to fear from China and worries that millions of Chinese will some day occupy vast swathes of Russian territory in the Far East are overblown
Sources: As many as 2,000 more troops may be going to Afghanistan
As many as 2,000 additional troops -- including a number of U.S. forces -- may be headed to Afghanistan in the coming weeks under a plan being proposed by Gen. David Petraeus, CNN has learned.
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