BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing’s new $63 billion Daxing airport began its first scheduled international flights on Sunday as it ramped up operations to help relieve pressure on the city’s existing Capital airport. An inner view of the terminal hall of the newly launched Daxing International Airport on the outskirts of Beijing, China September 28, 2019.
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ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey will clear northeast Syria of Kurdish YPG militia if Russia does not fulfill its obligations under an accord that helped end a Turkish offensive in the region, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. FILE PHOTO: Turkey-backed Syrian rebel fighters gather as a military vehicle advances near the border town of Tal
A house destroyed due to a landslide caused by a heavy rain is seen in Chiba, east of Tokyo, Japan October 25, 2019, in this photo released by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo/via REUTERS TOKYO (Reuters) – The death toll from torrential rains that caused flooding and mudslides in eastern Japan rose to eight on Saturday,
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The United States will strengthen its military presence in Syria with “mechanized forces” to prevent Islamic State fighters seizing oil fields and revenue, the U.S. Defense Secretary said on Friday, the latest twist in President Donald Trump’s confusing policy on Syria. U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper arrives for a bilateral meeting
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday accused China of curtailing “rights and liberties” in Hong Kong and blasted U.S. company Nike and the National Basketball Association for falling in line with Beijing in a disagreement over free speech. In a major policy speech on China that touched on an array of
BERLIN (Reuters) – The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will try to build on its successes in two regional votes last month and beat Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in another eastern state election on Sunday. FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bodo Ramelow, Premier of Thuringia state, attend a meeting of eastern German
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales leaves a news conference at the presidential palace La Casa Grande del Pueblo in La Paz, Bolivia, October 23, 2019. REUTERS/Manuel Claure LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales sought to shore up support with the country’s military on Wednesday as he faces allegations by the opposition of vote-rigging, calling
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian leader Evo Morales on Wednesday repeated his claim of victory in a presidential election and accused the opposition of trying to orchestrate a coup, after mass opposition-led protests since the Sunday vote that claimed the counting was rigged. FILE PHOTO: Bolivia’s President and presidential candidate Evo Morales of the Movement
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt said on Tuesday it had accepted a U.S. invitation to a meeting of foreign ministers over a project for a giant hydropower dam on Ethiopia’s Blue Nile that is causing an escalating spat between the two African countries. FILE PHOTO: The Blue Nile flows into Ethiopia’s Great Renaissance Dam in Guba
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a potentially perilous ratification of his Brexit divorce deal in the British parliament after the speaker refused to allow a vote on it on Monday. With just 10 days left until the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union on Oct. 31, the divorce is
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam apologized to the city’s Muslim community on Monday after police fired a water cannon at a major mosque during operations on Sunday night to quell violent pro-democracy protests in the Asian financial hub. While the morning after clean up was underway, Lam visited the mosque in
BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) – The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Sunday they had withdrawn from the border town of Ras al Ain under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal, but a spokesman for Turkish-backed Syrian rebels said the withdrawal was not yet complete. A Turkey-backed Syrian rebel fighter walks near Ras al Ain Town, Syria October
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine President Mauricio Macri called on “angry” voters to get behind him ahead of presidential elections next week, as he looks to defy the odds and rein in Peronist challenger Alberto Fernandez, who beat him heavily in a primary vote in August. Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri (C), his running mate Miguel
LONDON (Reuters) – Anti-Brexit protesters on Saturday used a bizarre array of humor to lampoon Britain’s leaders, casting Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s chief adviser as a manipulating devil behind a divorce that was the work of a privileged few. Figures depicting Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his special advisor Dominic Cummings are displayed during
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo underscored U.S.-Israeli efforts to counter Iran in talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, in an apparent attempt to ease concerns in Israel that Tehran could exploit a U.S. military pullback in Syria. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listen as Israeli Prime Minister
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint news conference with Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst ALVARADO, Texas (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday defended his Middle East policy, as he comes under bipartisan criticism over his