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…

An opposition lawmaker has assaulted another MP during debate on a foreign agents bill condemned in the West A Georgian opposition MP has punched a senior lawmaker of the country’s ruling party as he was making the case for adopting a controversial foreign agents bill, according to a video that went viral on social media…

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