Yoon condemns NK provocations and calls for increased NATO security.

In a summit held on Wednesday in Vilnius, Lithuania, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol denounced North Korea's most recent intercontinental ballistic missile launch and requested a stronger collective response from NATO.

Yoon condemned the launch and urged the international commu...

Japan and NATO's interests are increasingly aligned, although their links are still only symbolic.

As China's global security and economic footprint grows, the participation of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in a NATO summit for the second consecutive year shows how Asia and Europe's strategic interests are increasingly convergent. However, since the relationship is still develo...

CHINA URGES SECURITY & ECONOMIC COOPERATION WITH AFGHANISTAN

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• China urges security & economic cooperation with Afghanistan.
• The U.S. and its allies prepare to withdraw their forces from the country.
• Foreign ministers from China, Afghanistan, and Pakistan met via video conference...

U.S. TO DEPLOY EXTRA 500 TROOPS TO GERMANY SAYS US DEFENCE SECRETARY LLOYD AUSTIN

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• At a news conference with his German counterpart Annegret Kramper-Karrenbauer, Austin said “We have ceased planning (for a troop drawdown).”

• Austin recently met Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz, and said that the US is committed towards...

JAPAN’S DENTSU GROUP REPORTS NET LOSS OF $1.5 BILLION IN FISCAL 2020

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• Japan’s Dentsu Group reports net loss of $1.5 billion in fiscal 2020.
• Due to the coronavirus pandemic, its advertising business slumped.
• In 2020, sales fell 10.4 percent to 939.24 billion yen.
• The company...

BILL INTRODUCED IN U.S. HOUSE TO CANCEL DESIGNATION OF PAKISTAN AS MAJOR NON-NATO ALLY

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• This bill introduced by Republican Congressman Andy Biggs terminates Pakistan’s designation as major non-NATO ally, which was given during the Bush Administration in 2004

• This new bill will also ask the president to certify that Pakistan has show...

1ST COVID-19 POSITIVE CASE OF A FOREIGN NATIONAL IN DETENTION REPORTED IN TOKYO

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• 1ST COVID-19 positive case of a foreign national in detention reported in Tokyo.
• Tokyo Regional Immigration Services Bureau reported the same.
• The Bureau has some 200 foreign nationals in detention.
• The infect...

Macron reaches the third barrier of politics in France and shuts it down

The general strike that was to shut France down last Thursday now extends to the next week at least, when President Macron continues to push his nation into the 21st century.

This time he lands on the third rail, the national Byzantine pension system, in French society and politics. Mac...

US health providers are adamant that access to the NHS will be simpler and drug prices will increase following Brexit

The prospectus reveals that drug companies will call for new regulations to "discriminate" international suppliers and to limit the number of suppliers.

Writing last month by the American Chamber of Commerce, he noted the three-year failure to reach an agreement with the EU th...

Currencies remains largely unmoved as the referendum rumbles on but has had no impact on the market

In early Tuesday markets, Sterling remains largely unmoved as the referendum rumbles on but has had no impact on the market over the last week or so. Polls show that the Conservative lead is marginally shrinking, but the changes are within the normal ebb and flow, and there is nothing to say that...

Congress Pushes forward on Trump Impeachment With Nation division

The House has entered a critical litigation week and Democrats, who once vowed to get Republicans out of office, are facing the prospect that President Donald Trump is becoming ever hardening partisan.

Lawmakers were first updated behind closed doors Monday night by the House Intelligen...

Donald Trump passes comment on the UK elections that he can work with any prime minister

President Donald Trump said that in No 10 – nine days prior to a general election he will "deal with anyone."

When he spoke on a three-day trip to the UK, Mr. Trump said he would "stay out of politics," that he was "a fan of Brexit"

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