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Last Updated: July 31, 2023, 11:14 ISTChina is still Japan's biggest seafood export market but posts and hashstags saying Japanese food is radioactive and should be boycotted are rife on Chinese social media. (Reuters)Japanese food imports…

China’s ruling Communist Party dominates the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and uses it to further its interests, a former executive has alleged in claims that prompted Canada to suspend participation in the institution.Bob Pickard, a…

BERLIN: The German government on Wednesday said it would shut down four out of five Russian consulates in the country by revoking their licences, a tit-for-tat move after Moscow's decision to limit the number of German officials in Russia…

Last Updated: May 15, 2023, 02:28 ISTReuben Brigety said on Thursday he was confident that a Russian ship under US sanctions took aboard weapons from the Simon's Town base in December. (Image: Reuters) The U.S. envoy to South Africa said…

BEIJING: China's ceremonial parliament has accused American lawmakers of trampling on the sovereignty of other nations after the U.S. passed a measure condemning a suspected Chinese spy balloon's intrusion into U.S. airspace.The statement…

Chinese embassies stopped issuing new visas for South Koreans and Japanese on Tuesday in apparent retaliation for COVID-19 measures recently imposed by those countries on travellers from China. It wasn't clear whether China would expand the…

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday proclaimed unwavering UN commitment to a fully denuclearized NorthKorea, even as a divided Security Council allows more room for the isolated country to expand…

Even as Russia is offering deep discounts on its crude oil supplies, India is looking at buying more oil from the country which may help ease inflation in India. The development gives Indian refiners better bargaining power with…

China on Friday dismissed US' description of Beijing being the "most serious long-term challenge to the international order", terming it as a "classic piece of disinformation and a smear campaign". Addressing an audience at US-based George…

NEW DELHI: India is focused on stabilising its economic ties with Russia and is working to devise a payment mechanism to settle trade amid Western sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, the foreign ministry said on Thursday.…