By Liu Jianxi in Global Times in Global Times, June 5, 2017 at 23:58:39 Zambia is urged to release 31 Chinese nationals detained earlier for alleged illegal mining activities in the country’s copper belt Monday. Their detention soon triggered an official complaint from China, as the Zambian authority had not only failed to present their credentials during the action, but also had not provided strong proof of the allegations. A pregnant woman and two others…
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by Julia Hollingsworth in The South China Morning Post, June 6, 2017 Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates all cut diplomatic ties with Qatar on Monday, citing Doha’s alleged links to terrorism. The nations also said they planned to cut air and sea traffic, while Saudi Arabia announced it would shut its land border with Qatar, cutting the gas-rich nation off from the rest of the Arabian peninsula. Qatar denies that…
By Anthony H. Cordesman, CSIS, June 5, 2016 (The writer is Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C). For the moment, the key fight for Afghanistan has shifted to Washington and is centered in the White House. It is a struggle over whether President Trump should grant the request of General John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) and the Resolute Support Mission…
Xinhua report in Global Times, June 6, 2017 at 14:45 hrs Police in southern China have busted a workshop manufacturing methamphetamine hidden in a chicken farm, seizing 20 suspects, authorities said Tuesday. More than 200 police officers from southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region raided the drug factory in Gusi, a remote mountain village in Nanning, Guangxi’s capital, on May 31, according to Nanning public security bureau. They confiscated more than 560 kilograms of methamphetamine,…