JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - China's chief of staff General Chen Bingde on Sunday met his Israeli counterpart General Benny Gantz and Defence Minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv, the ministry said in a statement.
"The defence minister and the Chinese chief of staff discussed the situation in the region, relations with the Palestinian Authority and the situation in Pakistan and Iran, as well as the fig [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iran and China on Saturday signed a series of agreements worth $4 billion (2.8 billion euros) for infrastructure projects as part of a broader bid to boost trade volume between the two nations, Iranian state media reported.
The bilateral agreements span cooperation in water, mining, energy and industrial sectors.
As part of a $500 million (354 million euros) [...]
DAMASCUS (AFP) - (AFP) - Syrian security forces killed four people on Wednesday, as the West ratcheted up pressure for UN Security Council action against Damascus, with France branding blocking moves by China and Russia as "indecent".
The four were killed in Jebel al-Zawiya region, where the army deployed two weeks ago to crush an anti-government revolt, Rami Abdel Rahman, head of t [...]
MOSCOW (AFP) - (AFP) - Russia and China oppose outside interference in the unrest in the Arab world, the two presidents said on Thursday in a declaration, as the West seeks their support for increasing pressure on Syria.
"The sides believe that the search for settling the situation in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa should take place in the legal field and through political me [...]
ASTANA (AFP) - The leaders of China and Russia on Wednesday pressed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to show more cooperation to resolve the Iranian nuclear standoff, in a rare meeting at a regional security summit.
Presidents Hu Jintao and Dmitry Medvedev held separate meetings with Ahmadinejad but delivered a similar message of the need to improve dialogue, as the Iranian president a [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak is to leave on Saturday night on a rare visit to Beijing for talks with Chinese leaders, his office says.
Barak, invited by his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie, was to meet with "senior officials in the Chinese leadership," his office said in a statement without giving details of the itinerary.
"This is the first visit of an [...]
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) - China acknowledged Friday for the first time contact with Libya's rebels, as US lawmakers passed a resolution forcing President Barack Obama to explain his decision to intervene in Libya.
The United States and the United Nations, meanwhile, slammed Qatar's deportation of a Libyan woman who alleged she had been raped by soldiers loyal to Libyan strongman Moame [...]
ABU DHABI (AFP) - The oil-rich Gulf bloc and China hope to increase their bilateral trade tenfold in a decade from the current annual level of $100 billion, a minister said on Monday after a joint meeting.
"In the last decade, our trade has grown tenfold to $100 billion and we look forward to another tenfold (increase) in the next decade," United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheik [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Chinese companies, widely present in Iran thanks to the vaccum created by the departure of Western firms, dominated the Iranian oil, gas and petrochmemical exhibition that began Friday, an AFP reporter said.
"This year, 166 Chinese companies are present at the fair compared to 100 companies last year," a senior oil ministry official said.
"The number of foreign compa [...]
ROME (AFP) - A former top minister in Moamer Kadhafi's regime who has fled to Europe in a fishing trawler told AFP in an interview that he believes China and Russia have "lost" the race for oil in Libya.
"Kadhafi has no future now," said Fathi Ben Shatwan, a former Kadhafi ally whose last government post was as energy minister and who made a dramatic escape from the besieged city of [...]
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