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Russia raises spectre of 'world war' if nations fail to negotiate over Syria

THE LEVANT NEWS -- MUNICH: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said all powers must sit at the negotiating table to forge an end to the war in Syria "instead of unleashing a new world war". "The Americans and our Arab partners must think well: do they want a permanent war?" Medvedev told Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper, […]

North Korea faked sub-launched missile test footage: analysis

THE LEVANT NEWS -- Footage of a North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) test released by Pyongyang two days after it announced it had conducted the country's fourth nuclear test last week was faked, according to an analysis by a California-based think tank. In defiance of a UN ban, the isolated country has said it […]

China's controversial new anti-terror law to pass on Sunday

THE LEVANT NEWS -- China is set to pass its controversial new anti-terrorism law on Sunday, the largely rubber-stamp parliament said on Friday, despite U.S. criticism about its cyber provisions and concerns over human rights. The draft law, which could require technology firms to install "back doors" in products or hand over sensitive information such […]

China finds itself pulled deeper into Syria crisis

THE LEVANT NEWS -- As its global business interests grow, China is cautiously revising the noninterventionist policy espoused in 1955 by then-Premier Zhou Enlai. The killing of a Chinese hostage by the Islamic State group and Chinese businessmen in Friday’s attack in Mali could change that. The violence swirling out from Syria in recent weeks […]

China says won't cease building on South China Sea isles

THE LEVANT NEWS-- China said on Sunday it will continue to build military and civilian facilities on its artificial islands in the disputed South China Sea and the United States was testing it by sending warships through the area. "Building and maintaining necessary military facilities, this is what is required for China's national defense and […]

ISIS ’Executes’ Chinese, Norwegian Hostages as Bastion Pounded

THE LEVANT NEWS -- The Takfiri group, ISIS said Wednesday it had killed two hostages, one Chinese and a Norwegian, as French and Russian air strikes on its Syrian stronghold reportedly left 33 insurgents dead. ISIS' English-language Dabiq magazine featured graphic photos of two bodies that appeared to be Chinese hostage Fan Jinghui and Norwegian […]

US flies B-52 bombers near Chinese islands

The Levant News-- The United States has flown two B-52 bombers very close to China's artificial islands in the South China Sea, a move apparently designed to increase tensions with Beijing. A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Hill newspaper on Thursday that the bombers made one pass within 12 nautical miles of […]

Oil prices drop after U.S. inventories rise

THE LEVANT NEWS -- Crude oil prices fell on Wednesday after industry data showed an increase in U.S. stockpiles, and as analysts said that U.S. output had been surprisingly resilient in the face of lower prices. Benchmark U.S. crude futures CLc1 slipped to a two-week low at $43.55 a barrel in early trading before trimming […]

Alibaba says Singles' Day sales surpass last year's $9.3 billion total

THE LEVANT NEWS -- Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd (BABA.N) said on Wednesday the value of merchandise it has sold so far during the Singles' Day online shopping extravaganza had surpassed last year's total of $9.3 billion. The company, which six years ago turned Nov. 11 into China's equivalent of U.S. shopping event […]

The Uyghurs' Role With ISIS

THE LEVANT NEWS EXCLUSIVE -- by Dr. Geoffrey Cook*-- The Uyghurs are a non-Han (Sinic) Islamic people who reside in the northwest of China (in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region) next to the (also restive) Tibetans. Within Xinjiang, they are forty-five percent of the population, but they are spread over a continuous portion of the landscape. […]

Dubai expects more Chinese tourists in 2015

THE LEVANT NEWS -- Dubai: A slowdown in China’s economy is unlikely to lead to a drop in the number of Chinese visitors to Dubai, with the emirate’s tourism authority working to add more flights between the two destinations in 2016. Hoor Al Khaja, manager of overseas promotions at the Department of Tourism and Commerce […]

Angry China says shadowed U.S. warship near man-made islands in disputed sea

The Levant News -- BEIJING | BY ANDREA SHALAL AND BEN BLANCHARD for Reuters -- A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer sailed close to China's man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea on Tuesday, drawing an angry rebuke from Beijing, which said its warships tracked and warned the American vessel. The patrol by the USS […]

Explosion at restaurant in China kills 17: state media

The Levant News -- At least 17 people were killed on Saturday after an explosion ripped through a restaurant in eastern China, state media said. A gas cylinder exploded in a restaurant in the city of Wuhu in Anhui province, causing a fire, the state-run Xinhua news agency said. Similar explosions happen relatively often in China, […]

The Value of Reading Propaganda

The Levant News -- by Graham E. Fuller -- All countries do it—promoting their own societies in ideal terms in order to influence others. The US devotes a huge amount of time and money to selling its self-image and a view of the world as seen through American eyes—and perhaps denigrating others as well. Such […]

China Again Calls for Political Solution for Syria

The Levant News -- China's foreign minister has repeated a plea for the crisis in Syria to be resolved politically, during a meeting of the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, the Xinhua state news agency reported on Wednesday. Russia and the United States, two other permanent members, agreed on Monday to look for a […]

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