While saying that any militarization would be a concern, China has "challenged" reports that it deployed advanced surface-to-air missiles to a disputed island in the South China Sea, said Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Thursday.   Woody Island in the Paracels chain, which has...

François Hollande will lead the attack on David Cameron. French president believes that the European Council did extremely generous offer to London, yet Britain has too many demands, blackmailing the whole of Europe with its referendum. On Thursday, Brussels will host a special summit, during which...

In an order that heightens a long-running dispute between tech companies and law enforcement over the limits of encryption, a U.S. judge on Tuesday ordered Apple Inc to help the FBI break into a phone recovered from one of the San Bernardino shooters.   Judge Sheri Pym of U.S. District Court...

Even as U.S. President Barack Obama urged restraint in the region, China ratcheted tensions by deploying an advanced surface-to-air missile system to one of the disputed islands it controls in the South China Sea, said Taiwan and U.S. officials.   The missile batteries had been set up on...

Strong rejections of liabilities for e death of dozens of people killed in strikes on medical facilities and schools in rebel-controlled areas of Syria on Monday came from Russia on Tuesday. “We categorically do not accept such statements, the more so as every time those making these statements...

List of European Union countries that have achieved their goals for the use of renewable energy continues to grow. More and more countries seeking to achieve a certain level of renewable energy by 2020, are attaining the object ahead of schedule. First, there were countries such as Sweden,...

In an incident that marks the latest in an escalating series of attacks on medical facilities and workers in the five-year civil war, airstrikes have hit hospitals in two locations in northern Syria.   After a facility it supports in Maaret al-Numan, Idlib province, was hit four times...

As allied Russian jets kept up air strikes on rebel-held towns north of Aleppo, the Syrian government forces were poised to advance into the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Saturday.   The move by the Syrian government forces to...

In order to provide rapid humanitarian access to besieged Syrian towns, major powers agreed on Friday to a cessation of hostilities in Syria set to begin in a week. However there was no  decision on complete ceasefire or an end to Russian bombing.   The powers, including the United...