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New Zealand's foreign minister, Nanaia Mahuta, will travel to China on Tuesday to meet her counterpart Qin Gang. Mahuta said she would raise New Zealand's concerns about key security challenges at the meeting with Qin Gang in Beijing,…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for the country to stand ready to conduct nuclear attacks against the U.S. and South Korea. Kim accused the U.S. and South Korea of expanding joint military drills involving American nuclear…

Iran and Iraq have signed a border security agreement aimed at tightening the frontier with Iraq's Kurdish region. According to a statement from the Iraqi prime minister's office, the joint security agreement includes coordination in …

Israeli and Palestinian officials have agreed at a meeting in Egypt to take steps to lower tensions ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The talks in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday stressed the need to…

The Iranian government has proposed to Saudi Arabia three locations for a meeting at foreign minister level, Iran's foreign minister said on Sunday, citing the latest messages with Riyadh since the countries agreed to re-establish ties.…

A group of Israelis describing themselves as reservists in elite military and intelligence units said "they would not turn up for some duties from Sunday," escalating protests at the hard-right government's planned judicial overhaul.…

Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou will visit China this month, his office said on Sunday, the first time a former or current Taiwanese leader has visited since the defeated Republic of China government fled to the island in 1949. The…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to Mariupol in what would be his first trip to the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine's Donbas region since the start of the war. The visit came after Putin travelled to…

A deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain has been renewed after it was set to expire on Saturday. The United Nations and Turkey said the deal had been extended, but did not specify for how long. Ukraine said it has…

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic says Kosovo and Serbia have reached "some kind of a deal" on implementing a Western-backed deal to normalize ties. "We have agreed on some points, not on all points. This is not the final deal," Vucic…