The region shouldn’t become an “arena for a big power contest,” the Chinese president says Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Thursday that the Asia-Pacific area was “no one’s backyard,” urging for greater regional cooperation on development and security. Xi’s statement was made in written remarks to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Thailand and…

Israel has refused to cooperate with a US investigation into the killing of veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh The White House has told the Israeli government it was not behind the FBI’s decision to investigate the death of a Palestinian-American journalist killed during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank last May,…

The launch comes after Pyongyang vowed “fiercer” responses to US and allied military activity in the region North Korea has fired an apparent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) toward its East Sea, according to South Korean and Japanese officials, with Tokyo stating the projectile landed in waters within its exclusive economic zone.