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Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay says President Barack Obama has met briefly with new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on the sidelines of a summit in Laos. Obama’s term is soon coming to an end, and Duterte is hard to read. And true enough, Duterte’s...

President Barack Obama said on Sunday that USA and Russian negotiators are working “around the clock” to try to strike a deal to reduce violence in Syria, but added “we’re not there yet”.

President Barack Obama is leaving the G-20 economic summit with no peace deal on Syria and under the cloud of North Korea’s latest missile test.

Taking a strong dig at Pakistan for sponsoring terrorism, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that growing forces of violence and terror pose a fundamental challenge. There are some nations that use it as an instrument of state policy.

Airstrikes by the USA -led coalition have killed a number of the group’s most prominent founding members and leaders.

Greeted by a military band, traditional dancers and a warm, tropical rain, Obama told Lao President Bounnhang Vorachit he hoped to forge a partnership that would “make our two countries whole again” and promised a new era would “mean greater progress and...

Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said he believes Duterte is not angry with Obama but with Filipinos who keep on asking for his reaction to the U.S. president’s possibly bringing up the issue on killings. He made the comment to reporters in Manilla.

Emails from Mills and Abedin, however, indicate that Clinton was well aware of her staffers involvement with CGI and Clinton Foundation matters. “As seems to be usual for the Clintons, they crossed the line and all the concerns that she reassured me would not occur did in...

The assailants are also accused of raping several women and kidnapping many others from the Nigerian village.

A sit-down between Obama and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also laid bare the two North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies’ diverging interests in Syria, with Erdogan pointedly challenging Obama on USA support for Kurds fighting the Islamic State group in Syria.

Theresa May is believed to have raised the subject during her meetings with China.

The average value of a New Zealand home rose 15 percent from the year earlier to $612,527 in August, still slower than the 16 percent gain in Auckland property values which took the average value in the region to $1,013,632, QV said in a statement.

Passengers faced an hour’s delay at Newcastle Airport due to knock-on effects of BA’s check-in problems in Heathrow and Gatwick.

As with most times Duterte says something so offensive that it requires a public apology, his office released a written statement to try to clear up the mess.

Centre after much deliberations in both the houses of parliament and after being over-pushed by Congress, Leftists and other opposition members, chose to send the All Party Delegation (APD) to engage the stakeholders to restore peace in the Kashmir valley.