Xi meets Taiwan opposition chief, expresses ‘full confidence’ in Chinese, Taiwan unity

KMT leader Cheng Li-wun stressed shared cultural heritage and suggested she would slow Taiwan's military build-up.

Israel and Hezbollah continued to trade attacks on Friday - although at a reduced pace.

Lebanon is seeing not just a displacement crisis but a rapidly developing food security crisis too, says UN.

John Feeley says US president was ‘flush with victory’ of Maduro capture and could make same mistake in Cuba Donald Trump is “reaping the bitter fruit” of erroneously thinking that the capture of Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, offered a blueprint for toppling the Iranian regime, according to one of the US state department’s most respected former Latin America experts. John Feeley, a Marine helicopter pilot who later served as the US ambassador to Panama, believed Trump had been “flush wi