BEIJING, July 24 (Reuters) – Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi emphasised security cooperation in separate meetings with his Belarusian and Uzbek counterparts, his ministry said in two statements released on Friday. Wang met with Belarus’ Maxim Ryzhenkov and Uzbekistan’s Bakhtiyor Saidov on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation foreign ministers’ meeting in Bishkek on…
BEIJING, July 16 (Reuters) – Twenty-nine countries on Thursday signed an agreement to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization, an intergovernmental body China says aims to promote international cooperation and global governance in artificial intelligence. • Representatives from the 29 countries, including Russia, Belarus, Serbia, Cuba, Brazil and Venezuela, as well as 10 African and…
Hong Kong’s top court has dismissed a legal challenge against a law barring calls to boycott the city’s “patriots-only” elections, ruling that the prohibition is necessary to counter “organised campaigns” seeking to undermine the establishment following the enactment of the national security law. In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, five Court of Final Appeal judges…
A suspected Ukrainian military drone was found crashed in Lithuania on Sunday, the Lithuanian government’s National Crisis Management Centre said. The suspected Ukranian drone was not detected when it entered Lithuania, and was not armed with explosives. (AFP/Representative Image) The drone was not detected when it entered Lithuania, and was not armed with explosives, the…
DUBAI, April 28 (Reuters) – Iran is ready to share its defensive weapons capabilities with “independent countries, especially members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)”, Deputy Defence Minister Reza Talaei-Nik said on Tuesday, according to Iranian state media. Iran fought a war with the United States and Israel from late February to early April, during…
MOSCOW, April 27 (Reuters) – Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov held talks in Kyrgyzstan on Monday with Iran’s Deputy Defence Minister Reza Talaei-Nik, state-run TASS news agency reported. Belousov reiterated Russia’s longstanding position that the Iran war should be resolved exclusively through diplomatic means and said he was confident Moscow and Tehran would continue to…
April 19 (Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said he would be ready to meet U.S. President Donald Trump once a “big deal” between the two countries has been prepared. “We are ready for a deal, but it needs to be prepared in a way that reflects the interests of both the United States and…
April 17 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Ukraine believed Russia was making preparations that showed that it would once again try to involve its ally Belarus into the four-year-old war pitting Kyiv against Moscow. “According to intelligence, road construction in areas leading to Ukraine and the establishment of artillery positions are…
SEOUL, March 27 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko held a summit in Pyongyang on Thursday, where the two leaders signed a friendship treaty, North Korea’s state media KCNA reported. The two countries signed agreements on cooperation in various sectors, including diplomacy, agriculture, education and public health, KCNA…
SEOUL, March 26 (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un welcomed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to Pyongyang on Wednesday, North Korean state media KCNA said on Thursday, touting ties between the two close allies of Russia’s Vladimir Putin. When Lukashenko visited Pyongyang’s Kumsusan mausoleum to pay respects to former North Korean leaders, he laid…