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22.02.2025 13:00 Several commercial flights between Australia and New Zealand had to divert on Friday because of a live-fire exercise conducted by Chinese warships, according to media reports.

22.02.2025 13:00 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng discussed President Donald Trump's plans for sweeping tariffs on Chinese imports during an introductory video call on Friday morning, according to readouts from both sides.

22.02.2025 13:00 China's top diplomat says that a "window for peace" is opening amid a quickening pace of U.S. diplomacy around ending the war in Ukraine and steps by Washington to normalize relations with Moscow.

22.02.2025 13:00 As Germany heads into pivotal federal elections on February 23, the Alternative for Germany party is making unprecedented gains.

22.02.2025 13:00 A possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will depend on whether progress is made on ending the war in Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on February 20.

22.02.2025 13:00 Joint statement by the coastal states of the Baltic Sea and North Sea - Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom - following the fourth expert-level meeting in Stockholm 19-20 February 2025.

22.02.2025 13:00 On the third-year mark of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, the European Union Foreign Affairs Council, at its meeting in Brussels on Monday, 24 February 2025, is expected to formally approve the 16th package of sanctions against Russia.

22.02.2025 13:00 An Indigenous Defense Fighter jet recently conducted an exercise equipped with an air-launched variant of the Hsiung Feng-III missile, a source familiar with the matter told CNA on Friday.

22.02.2025 13:00 Russia's Security Council has warned of increasing threats from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization against Russian port infrastructure.

22.02.2025 13:00 Moves by U.S. President Donald Trump to potentially gut programs aimed at supporting election security are not sitting well with key state election officials, who are now asking the Trump administration to reconsider.

22.02.2025 13:00 A Mexican national and armed member of the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación was sentenced today in the District of Columbia to 20 years and 10 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy that distributed large quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine destined for the United States.

22.02.2025 13:00 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been branded "a dictator, without elections," but rivals are already circling for his job as expectations mount of a vote later this year.

22.02.2025 13:00 The Armed Forces of the Philippines announced on Friday night that it has conducted a maritime cooperative activity with the French Navy's Charles de Gaulle carrier strike group.

22.02.2025 13:00 Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, who is also Chinese lead person for China-U.S. economic and trade affairs, held a video call Friday with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on bilateral important economic issues.

22.02.2025 13:00 Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar in Johannesburg, South Africa on Friday local time, during which Wang said the restoration of mutual trust and the realization of win-win cooperation between China and India meet the shared expectations of both peoples, according to a release from Chinese Foreign Ministry.