Turkey: Russia agrees US should attend Syria talks during cease-fire
AFP Fri, 2017-01-13 BEIRUT: Russia has agreed the United States should be involved in talks on Syria’s future planned for this month, Turkey’s top diplomat said, as a series of explosions rocked Damascus. Moscow and Ankara last month brokered a fragile cease-fire for the war-torn country, but without the involvement of Washington, a negotiator in […]
Kerry starts Vietnam tour with Asia embrace push
AFP Fri, 2017-01-13 HO CHI MINH CITY: John Kerry began his swansong tour as US Secretary of State in Vietnam on Friday, defending Washington’s ‘pivot’ to Asia in the face of President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to dump a key regional trade Vietnam has been at the center of President Barack Obama’s Asia embrace, marked by […]
