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China Stands with Russia as Putin Visits Northern Territories

Tokyo, Aug. 14 (Jiji Press)--The Chinese and Russian ambassadors to Japan have issued a joint statement claiming that their countries made huge sacrifices in the fight against Nazism and Japanese militarism during World War II. The statement was released on Thursday, when Russian President Vladimir Putin visited one of the four Russian-held islands that Japan calls the Northern Territories....

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Gulf stuck in war-and-peace limbo

Gulf stuck in war-and-peace limbo

The “region cannot remain in a state of neither war nor peace indefinitely,” Anwar Gargash, diplomatic adviser to UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed, warned this week.

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