Japanese PM Shinzo Abe meets China’s Xi Jinping, calls it ‘firs...
BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held an ice-breaking meeting on Monday on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific conference in Beijing, following more than two years of deep tensions over an island dispute. The spat between China and Japan over uninhabited... read more »
G20 global infrastructure hub set for Australia
A global infrastructure hub proposed by G20 nations to help strengthen economic growth will be based in Sydney and funded by Australia, a report said on Monday. The Group of 20 of the world’s biggest developed and emerging economies agreed in September that a Global Infrastructure Initiative... read more »
U.S., Iran holding secret talks to renew diplomatic ties, Times reports
Iranian and American officials have held secret talks to discuss renewing diplomatic relations if a deal is reached on Iran’s nuclear program and sanctions are lifted, the Times reported early on Monday. According to the report, the two nations are discussing the possibility of opening a U.S.... read more »
Israeli police fear continued Arab rioting
Israeli police were deployed Monday in a high state of alert throughout Arab communities in the Galilee and central Israel as sporadic rioting continued over the shooting death of an Arab Israeli by police on Friday night. Stones were hurled Monday morning at a bus in the Wadi Ara region, and... read more »
