RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. – U.S. President Barack Obama urged his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to “de-escalate” a contentious territorial dispute with Japan and deal with the matter through diplomatic channels, Obama’s national security adviser said on Saturday. Obama told Xi “the parties should seek to de-escalate, not escalate, and the parties should seek to…
MANILA, Philippines – Listed port giant International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) has tapped state-run port operator PT Pelabuhan IndonesiaII (Persero) Tanjung Priok Branch for stevedoring services for 15 years. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), ICTSI corporate legal affairs manager Benjamin Gorospe III said the company through its indirect subsidiary…
Moscow (ANTARA News) – Russia has deployed a naval unit to the Mediterranean Sea, it said on Thursday, a move President Vladimir Putin said was to defend Russian security but which comes as Moscow faces off with the West over Syria. In what is Russia’s first permanent naval deployment in the Mediterranean since Soviet…
Fourteen Indian sailors are now safe, after pirates, who took control of their cargo vessel yesterday morning, June 5, in the Gulf of Aden, abandoned the attack hours later after EU Naval Force warship HSwMS Carlskrona, together with NATO counter piracy Dutch warship HNLMS Van Speijk, closed in. This type of cargo vessel, known…