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Iran Press TV Mon Jun 24, 2019 05:57AM Australia is reportedly working on a secret plan to construct a new deep-water port to accommodate US Marine deployments on its northern coast, a move that is aimed to counter China's growing presence in the region. C…

The deal brings China's Belt and Road Initiative closer to developer of PV plants, including a 165.5MW project in Egypt (Credit: ACWA Power) China has made a strategic play for Middle Eastern renewables, securing a large minority stake in one of the region’s…

After maintaining an ambiguous stance for some time, the Chinese foreign ministry finally conceded that it recently hosted Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Afghanistan Talibans chief negotiator, who is involved in peace negotiations with the United States over…

Russias Return to South Asia was supposed to see it build the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline as a means of promoting peaceful multipolar regional integration, but the US is about to jeopardize this plan after it was disclosed just days before Pompeos …

FAISALABAD, Pakistan At first, in her desperate calls home to her mother in Pakistan, Natasha Masih couldnt bring herself to say what they were doing to her. All the 19-year-old would say was that her new husband a Chinese man her family sold her off to in m…

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The US is planning to include India on its International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) list in order to place it at par with its NATO allies, Israel, and a few others for the export of high-level military technologies, which could be the perfect carrot f…

Booming exports from Russia, which had already been the largest supplier of natural gas to the continent, have nearly maxed out European natural gas storage capacity and added to what was already an oversupply of natural gas in the region. This will likely pu…

People's Daily Online (China Daily) 15:57, June 15, 2019 President Xi Jinping said he hopes that the Tibet autonomous region will seize opportunities for development in a congratulatory letter sent to the 2019 Forum on the Development of Tibet held on Frid…

Whether its through its recent anti-satellite missile test, its newly created de-facto Space Force, or its plans to build a space station around 2030, Indias stepping up the pace of the South Asian space race and greatly destabilizing the region in the proces…