President Xi Jinping will travel to the coastal city of Da Nang, Vietnam Nov 10 to 11 to attend the informal leaders meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Foreign Ministry Spokesman Lu Kang announced Friday.Xi will pay state visits to Vietnam and Laos after the APEC meeting Nov 12 to 14, Lu said.It will be Xi's first overseas trip since he was re-elected as the general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee Oct 25.
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MADRID - The Spanish government delegate in Catalonia said on Thursday that he was "convinced" that new elections in the region would put an end to the ongoing crisis.Spain's rich Catalonia autonomous region held a referendum on self-determination on Oct 1, which was declared illegal by the Spanish Constitutional Court.Following the declaration of independence by the former Catalan regional government on Friday, the Spanish government stripped the region of its autonomy, sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and his government and decided to hold new elections in the region on ...
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LONDON - Gavin Williamson was appointed on Thursday as the new British defense secretary to replace Michael Fallon, who resigned Wednesday over allegations about his past inappropriate behavior.Williamson, the former chief whip, was a surprise appointment to the role, having risen quickly through the cabinet ranks but holding no real defense experience.Julian Smith, the former deputy, has been appointed chief whip and Esther McVay, who only returned to British Parliament this year, takes on the deputy role.British Prime Minister Theresa May's minority government suffered a heavy blow Wedne...
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GENEVA - The world's most expensive whisky shot, bought in August for $10,000 at a hotel in the exclusive St Moritz resort in Switzerland, was shown on Thursday to be fake. After being submitted to laboratory tests by Scottish whisky experts and at Oxford University, the liquor was found not have been what it claimed to be -- an 1878 bottle of Macallan Single Malt, Swissinfo, the website of the Swiss national broadcaster reported. The Waldhaus Am See Hotel has reimbursed the Chinese drinker who bought the tipple, as it had promised to do if the drop was found to be a fake. Carbon dating fo...
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WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday his administration had informed Congress of a potential arms sale to update Greece's F-16 aircrafts."This agreement to strengthen the Hellenic Air Force is worth up to $2.4 billion and would generate thousands of American jobs," Trump said during his joint press conference with visiting Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.According to a statement by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, the Greek government had requested a possible purchase of an upgrade of its existing F-16 fleet to an F-16 Block V configuration."The...
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