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France has accused longtime allies Australia and the United States of lying over a security pact that saw the Australian government scrap a contract to buy French submarines in favour of US vessels. “There has been lying, duplicity, a…

Smuggling of Sander wood or Red Sender, a high density wood; from south India to China through Karbi Anglong district of Assam, since 2002 raised doubts about the actual application of the material in foreign countries like China. …

In this lush strip of land — walled off from potential invaders by high mountain peaks and narrow, ambush-prone passes — former mujahedeen fighters and Afghan commandos regrouped in the days after the Taliban toppled the Afghan government,…

International investors that have been piling into China in recent years are now bracing for one of its great falls as the troubles of over-indebted property giant China Evergrande come to a head. The developer's woes have been…

Russia stages local and national elections like clockwork in accordance with its post-Soviet Constitution, but the results are nearly always the same: sweeping victories for President Vladimir Putin and the politicians and parties loyal to…