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India

India launches airstrikes inside Pakistan

India said its warplanes struck a militant training camp inside Pakistan on Tuesday, raising tensions between the neighbouring countries.

USA

Trump declares national emergency to build border wall

Donald Trump has declared a national emergency in the US to allow him to bypass Congress and pursue the building of the US-Mexico border wall.

Eritrea

Ethiopia finally recognises 2000 border ruling with Eritrea

Recognition removes major stumbling block to better relations between East African neighbours.

USA

US and Mexico president trade barbs over border wall

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Mexico of doing "nothing" to stop illegal immigrants crossing into the United States, and repeated his election campaign pledge that Mexico would pay for his planned border wall.

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Europe News

Brexit progress balanced on Irish border

The leader of the DUP in Northern Ireland has said she doesn't want any deal done which would lead to them having 'regulatory divergence' from the rest of the UK

South Korea

Watch: North Korean soldier's daring dash to defect

Video has emerged of a North Korean soldier fleeing a hail of bullets as he escapes to the South

Slovenia

Croatia rejects ruling in maritime dispute with Slovenia

In a row that centres on the Bay of Piran, judges have granted Slovenia unhindered access to international waters in the Adriatic Sea

World News

Spain tells Britain to calm down over Gibraltar

Spain has told Britain to calm down over Gibraltar amid an escalating row.

Egypt

Egypt to transfer strategic Red Sea islands to Saudi

An Egyptian court has annulled a ruling blocking the transfer of sovereignty of two islands to Saudi Arabia.

World News

Wall-to-wall phone call Peña Nieto and Trump talk obstacles

Peña Nieto a Trump in hour-long telephone call

China

South China Sea: Beijing defiant over weapons deployment claims

Beijing has reacted defiantly to claims that it appears to have installed weapons, including anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems, on all seven of the artificial islands it has built in the South Ch

World News

Fortress Europe builds barriers to stem the refugee flow

As Europe faces the most significant people movement since the Second World War the landscape of the continent is changing.

My Europe Series

Nagorno-Karabakh: a deadly conflict that threatens to spread

In this edition of Insiders we head to Nagorno-Karabakh, a self-proclaimed republic that seceded from then communist Azerbaijan when the Soviet Union fell apart in…

My Europe Series

Nagorno-Karabakh: a time-bomb in the Caucasus?

Last April, fighting between troops from the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Azerbaijan army rekindled a conflict that had been frozen for more than 20…

My Europe Series

Nagorno-Karabakh: peace or more peril?

Sophie Claudet: Valerie, what is so important about Nagorno-Karabakh that is worth fighting over?

China

Ramos bids to restore friendly ties between China and the Philippines

As China raises the temperature in its several maritime territorial disputes with its neighbours, the former Phillipines president Fidel Ramos is making a five-day trip to Hong…

World News

Beijing says its sovereignty over the South China Sea won't be affected

Beijing has told the European Union its sovereignty over the South China Sea will not be affected despite Tuesday’s ruling (July 12) in The Hague dismissing China’s territorial claims in the…

World News

Beijing begins military exercise in South China Sea

Tension is mounting ahead of a hotly-anticipated international ruling due on competing claims by China and the Philippines in the region.

Namibia

South Caucuses regional tensions result in ceasefire violations

Tensions in the South Caucuses region erupted in to violence on Thursday. Azerbaijan claimed one civilian was killed and six wounded by gunfire in

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Azerbaijan

Nagorno-Karabakh truce shows signs of fracture

Azerbaijan has accused Armenian-backed separatists of violating a new ceasefire agreed on Tuesday. While the Armenian side accused Azerbaijan of shelling its positions.