Asia Pacific
Japan, China, and South Korea agree to promote peace, cooperation
By Natsuko Fukue and Katie Forster AFP Japan, South Korea and China agreed Saturday that peace on the Korean peninsula was a ...China, EU vow countermeasures against sweeping US steel tariffs
By Peter Catterall with Beiyi Seow in Washington AFP China and the EU vowed Wednesday to strike back and defend their economic ...Ex-Philippine president Duterte arrested for crimes against humanity
By Pam CASTRO AFP Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte was arrested Tuesday in Manila by police acting on an International Criminal Court ...Thousands of Australians without power as storm Alfred lashes Queensland
Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia’s Queensland state were without power on Sunday after Alfred, a downgraded tropical cyclone, brought damaging ...China and Canada retaliate as Trump tariffs take effect
BY JOSH BOAK, PAUL WISEMAN and ROB GILLIES AP China and Canada announce retaliatory action as US President Trump’s tariffs against Canada, Mexico ...Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan settle border dispute that sparked deadly clashes
Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, two ex-Soviet Central Asian states, said on Friday that they had resolved a decades-old border dispute that had sparked ...North Korea destroys family reunion centre in ‘inhumane act’, Seoul says
BY KIM TONG-HYUNG, Associated Press North Korea is demolishing a venue that for decades hosted tearful reunions of families separated by the ...China’s marriage rate drop to record low, upswing of divorces
China last year saw a one-fifth decline in marriages, the latest sign of persistent demographic challenges as Beijing works to encourage births ...North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vows to further develop nuclear forces
By HYUNG-JIN KIM AP North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said an elevated U.S. security partnership with South Korea and Japan poses ...China imposes tariffs on US energy, autos in trade war retaliation
By Isabel Kua with Danny Kemp in Washington and Daniel Rook in Mexico City Reuters China said Tuesday it would impose tariffs ...














