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SEOUL : South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will visit China on the invitation of counterpart Xi Jinping from Sunday to Wednesday, Seoul and Beijing announced. Lee and Xi last met in November on the sidelines of the APEC summit...

PANAMA CITY :  Near the entrance to the Panama Canal, a monument to China's contributions to the interoceanic waterway was torn down Saturday night by order of local authorities. The move comes as US President Donald Trump has made threats...

SEOUL : South Korea's former first lady was alleged by prosecutors Monday to have accepted lavish bribes totalling over $200,000, including fine art, jewellery and a handbag, as well as meddling in state affairs. Kim Keon Hee, the wife of...

NAYPYIDAW : Myanmar's dominant pro-military party is "winning a majority" in the first phase of junta-run elections, a party source told AFP on Monday, after democracy watchdogs warned the poll would entrench military rule. The armed forces snatched power in...

PALM BEACH : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will sit down Sunday with Donald Trump and seek to secure the US president's stamp of approval for a new proposal to end the nearly four-year conflict with Russia. The 20-point plan, which...

PRISTINA : Kosovo voters head to the polls on Sunday for snap parliamentary elections, hoping to end ten months of political deadlock and crisis. Vetevendosje (VV), the party of Prime Minister Albin Kurti, won most votes in a February 9...

YANGON : Polls closed in the first round of Myanmar's junta-run elections on Sunday, an AFP journalist saw, ending the opening phase of a month-long vote democracy watchdogs describe as a ploy to rebrand military rule. An AFP journalist saw...

Rosatom’s Fuel Division, managed by TVEL, has launched pilot production at Russia’s first lithium-ion energy storage factory, “gigafactory” in the Kaliningrad Region. The facility marks a major step toward ensuring Russia’s technological independence in advanced energy storage technologies, a...

BIRAO : Amani Abdramane bustled around her donkey in the makeshift camp where she lives in the Central African Republic. In this northern part of the country, on the edge of the Sahel, the sun is scorching and sand is...

HONG KONG : Scores of residents flocked to a cramped shop in Hong Kong's old district to bid farewell to the city's "king of umbrellas", who is retiring after spending decades repairing umbrellas at his family business. Established in 1842...