SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi stressed on Friday the importance of ensuring the freedom of navigation in Asian waters for free trade, days after pledging to help develop a strategic port in Indonesia. Source: Reuters World News
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Talks between China and Sri Lanka for a free trade agreement have hit major hurdles, mainly because Beijing will not agree to Colombo's demand for a review of the deal after 10 years, Sri Lanka's top negotiator said. Source: Reuters World News
The world's largest economies stood at the precipice of all-out trade war as major US allies announced retaliation against stinging steel and aluminum tariffs that took effect on Friday. President Donald Trump's decision Thursday not to extend exemptions for Canada and the European Union -- the largest sources of foreign aluminum and steel respectively for [...]
The Seychelles-based Chagossians are demanding that the British government appoint an institute specialising in needs and loss assessment for their displaced group. Pierre Prosper, the chair of the Association of Chagossians in Seychelles, spoke to SNA on Monday as the group is again this year maintaining its stance and boycotting visits to their islands planned for later [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior North Korean official will hand over a letter from the country's leader Kim Jong Un to U.S. President Donald Trump in a rare visit to the White House on Friday as the two sides try to put a derailed summit meeting back on track. Source: Reuters World News
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea suggested during high-level talks on Friday that the two Koreas hold a joint celebration of the anniversary of a historic 2000 inter-Korean summit this month in the South, an official in Seoul said. Source: Reuters World News
MANAGUA (Reuters) - At least fifteen people were killed and more than 200 injured on Wednesday in one of the worst days of violence since protests against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega began more than a month ago, police said on Thursday. Source: Reuters World News
HONG KONG - Shrouded in Chinese military secrecy and hidden from the eyes of journalists, Beijing’s build-up of man-made islands on reefs deep in the maritime heart of Southeast Asia is a vexing story to report. Source: Reuters World News
The Pentagon on Thursday ratcheted up rhetoric about China's militarization of islands in the South China Sea, even as the Trump administration presses China for cooperation on North Korea. Source: Latest CNN News