
China said Friday it would continue to import Iranian oil in defiance of US sanctions on the country, a day before US and Chinese leaders are to meet to try to resolve thorny trade disputes. “We reject the unilateral imposition of sanctions,” said Fu Cong, Director General of the Chinese ...

An attack on a special Philippine army counter-terrorism unit left three soldiers dead and nine others wounded in the southern Philippines on Friday, military spokesmen and witnesses told AFP. The authorities said they were not ruling out the involvement of Abu Sayyaf militants in the noontime attack on the island ...