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Why U.S. troop drawdown is a complicated affair

U.S. soldiers inspect the site of suicide car bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 17, 2015. /Xinhua Editor's note: Stephen Ndegwa is a Nairobi-based communication expert, lecturer-scholar at th

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Is Trump's troops withdrawal a responsible move?

00:55 While U.S. President Donald Trump has yet to concede to Joe Biden after the presidential election, he has ordered further troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and Iraq. The plan wi

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Trump asked for options for attacking Iran last week, but held off: source

President Donald Trump, with two months left in office, last week asked for options on attacking Iran’s main nuclear site, but ultimately decided against taking the dra

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Trump 'to order further troop withdrawal' from Afghanistan

A U.S. Marine (C) talks with Afghan National Army soldiers during a training in Helmand province, July 5, 2017./Reuters President Donald Trump's new Pentagon team has not yet signaled an immin

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Turkish Presidency Reportedly Submits Motion on Sending Troops to Azerbaijan

Last week, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar concluded a memorandum on creating a joint centre to control the ceasefire in

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Biden will face the hard part of the economic recovery

U.S. projected winner Joe Biden leaves the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware, November 10, 2020. /Getty Editor's note:Yannan Collins is a consultant with a media background and qualificati

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Myanmar awaits results of election seen giving Suu Kyi a new term

Electoral workers start to count votes inside a polling station during the general election in Yangon, November 8, 2020. /Reuters Myanmar authorities are due to release early election results

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Amazon drops French Black Friday ad campaign as lockdown starts

Amazon is withdrawing advertising for pre-Black Friday discounts in France, after the government said the campaign was unfair to small shops at a time when a coronavirus lockdown has forced them t

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Malaysian premier mulls cabinet reshuffle to keep key ally: sources

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin is in talks on a possible cabinet reshuffle in an attempt to appease a key ally that has threatened to pull support for the ru

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Iran decries U.S. embargoes barring access to medical supplies

People walk on a street in Tehran, September 21, 2020. /CFP Iran's top human rights council has urged the world to oppose U.S. "crimes" of embargoes barring Iranians' access to medical and hum

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China is making vaccine a public good with concrete actions

After rounds of negotiations, China announced it's joining the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) Facility this week. As a vaccine attribution platform, COVAX is de

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China is making vaccine a public good with concrete actions

After rounds of negotiations, China announced it's joining the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access (COVAX) Facility this week. As a vaccine attribution platform, COVAX is de

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UN's founding principles will prevail with or without Washington

Editor's note: Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-based American journalist, political analyst and freelance reporter. The article reflects the author's opinions, not necessarily the views of CGTN.Th

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U.S. to challenge World Court's jurisdiction in Iran sanctions case

Lawyers for the United States are expected on Monday to reject the jurisdiction of the U.N.’s highest court to resolve a case brought by Iran seeking to lift U.S. sanct

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EU threatens legal action over UK trade deal for Northern Ireland

01:58 The UK has been told by the European Union to withdraw a trade bill that its own government admits breaks international law over a Brexit agreement – or it could face legal actio

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Trump's calculations behind Serbia-Kosovo deal

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic and the head of government of Kosovo Avdullah Hoti at the White House in Washington, U.S., September 4

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Apple iCloud, Google Drive and Dropbox probed over ‘unfair’ T&Cs in Italy

Italy’s competition authority has opened an investigation into cloud storage services operated by Apple, Dropbox and Google, in response to a number of complaints alleging unfair commercial pra