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    Allies weigh options on supporting US stance on China

    16 Jul 2020

    Seeking support in a budding cold war with Beijing, the US is looking to Southeast Asia, where long-standing allies and security partners have clashed with their giant neighbour in the resource-rich South China Sea.

    US mounds on more sanctions against Iran

    11 Jan 2020

    The sanctions, announced at the White House, marked the latest salvo in a US-Iranian confrontation that risked sliding into war a week ago with the deadly US drone attack on general Qasem Soleimani, who was by some measures the second most influential person in Iran.

    ‘Do not repeat the ‘80s,’ Pakistani FM warns US

    17 Jan 2020

    Pakistan said that the United States must remain engaged in Afghanistan’s reconstruction even if it succeeds in withdrawing troops and ending its longest war.

    Real reform key to international aid for Lebanon: US

    23 Jan 2020

    In a statement, Pompeo also urged "the government, army, and security services to guarantee the safety of citizens as they engage in peaceful demonstrations." Lebanon formed a new government on Tuesday with the backing of Hezbollah, a group labeled terrorist by the United States.

    Ghani rejects Taliban prisoner release clause in US deal

    01 Mar 2020

    His remarks come against the backdrop of the difficulties US negotiators face in shepherding the Afghan government and Taliban towards intra-Afghan negotiations, according to Western diplomats.

    Pompeo confirms listening to Trump-Ukraine phone call

    02 Oct 2019

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged on Wednesday that he listened in on the telephone call between Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart that prompted a House of Representatives impeachment inquiry against the Republican US president.

    Top US diplomat struggles to shrug off impeachment inquiry

    08 Nov 2019

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tries to shrug off the impeachment inquiry that has ensnared the State Department and raised questions about his leadership.

    Pompeo says US averted nuclear war between India, Pakistan

    25 Jan 2023

    India in February 2019 broke precedent by launching airstrikes inside Pakistani territory after blaming a militant group there for a suicide bombing that killed 41 Indian paramilitary soldiers in the flashpoint Kashmir region. Pakistan shot down an Indian warplane, capturing the pilot.

    Now we need political heroics more than before

    27 Nov 2022

    Our news screens were erupting with breaking news of yet another mass shooting. But this time the news that began with a barrage of bullets also became something special — a tale of battlefield heroics on the homefront of a nightspot in Colorado Springs. A brave military veteran, Richard Fierro, had rushed toward the first flashes

    Fear-mongering as US, China accuse each other of coronavirus

    17 Mar 2020

    Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian, in tweets last week in both Mandarin and English, suggested that "patient zero" in the global pandemic may have come from the United States — not the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan.

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