When Chinese leader Xi Jinping made his first state visit to Europe in 2014, he set out to herald a new era of cooperation in a multi-country tour, which the European Parliament President at the time called "a welcome signal of the importance that the new Chinese leader attaches to a strengthened EU-China partnership." Source: [...]
The President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, landed in Seychelles at 5.10 pm on Sunday for a three-day state visit at the invitation of President Wavel Ramkalawan. Kenyatta, who is heading a delegation of 64 members, was given a warm welcome by Ramkalawan upon his arrival and received a bouquet of flowers from nine-year-old Nael Nanon [...]
Firefighters struggled to contain wildfires sweeping across southwest Europe on Sunday as a heatwave showed no sign of abating, with Britain poised to set new temperature records this coming week. Blazes raging in France, Greece, Portugal and Spain have destroyed thousands of hectares of land, forced scores from their homes and killed several emergency personnel [...]
The Ukrainian military rebuffed Russian advances in Donetsk over the weekend, as the bloody battle for control in the eastern Donbas region grinds on. Source: Latest CNN News
Ukraine is now compiling evidence of the ecological damage from Russia's invasion, in the hopes of one day taking those cases to the International Criminal Court and ultimately making Moscow pay. CNN's Scott McLean reports. Source: Latest CNN News
Joe Biden's controversial fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was "a win" for the US President, the Saudi foreign minister told CNN in an exclusive interview on Saturday. Source: Latest CNN News
Britain's Conservative leadership contest kicked off this week, a weeks-long process that will result in the country's next prime minister. Besides the standard pledges of tax cuts or a slimmed down state, there has also been an enthusiastic promotion of anti-trans positions, potentially marking an intensification of the current government's "war on woke." Source: Latest [...]
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President Joe Biden assured Arab leaders the United States would remain fully engaged in the Middle East on Saturday, as he wrapped up his first tour of the region since taking office. "We will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran," Biden said during a summit in [...]
It wasn't so much a starting pistol as a starting squib. Last week, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stood outside Number 10 and announced his resignation. Closing a speech notable only for its lack of memorable excerpts or emotional resonance, our once intractable leader shrugged "them's the breaks" before retreating back inside. Source: Latest CNN [...]
