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China said on Monday that U.S. high altitude balloons had flown over its airspace without permission more than 10 times since the beginning of 2022, drawing a swift denial from Washington. ...

By Alexandra Alper and Karen Freifeld The Biden administration on Friday added six Chinese entities connected to Beijing’s suspected surveillance balloon programme to an export blacklist. The new restrictions ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela on Tuesday signed a memorandum of cooperation with China aimed at improving the quality of healthcare and medical services through the exchange of information, knowledge and ...

CanSino Biologics Chief Executive Yu Xuefeng said on Friday he was confident his company’s experimental Covid-19 vaccine using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology was as good as shots from Moderna ...

A Chinese spy balloon has changed course and is now floating eastward at about 18,300 meters over the central United States, demonstrating a capability to maneuver, the US military said on ...

A security assessment by Indian police in the Himalayan region of Ladakh says there could be more clashes between Indian and Chinese troops along their contested frontier there as Beijing ...

All passengers arriving from China will be required to present a negative PCR test as of Sunday, the council of ministers decided on Wednesday. The decision came after Health Minister ...

Passengers arriving in Cyprus from China will be required to present a 48-hour negative PCR test for coronavirus before departure as part of the measures to address the surge of ...

Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantela and members of the scientific committee on Tuesday will review the pandemic situation in Cyprus following the new outbreak in China, and will decide if any ...

China has appointed Qin Gang, its ambassador to the United States and a trusted aide of President Xi Jinping, as its new foreign minister, as Beijing and Washington seek to ...

EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides on Friday urged health ministers across the bloc to assess their coronavirus protocols and be well prepared amidst a surge in infections in China. Health ...

A Chinese military plane came within 10 feet (3 metres) of a U.S. air force aircraft in the contested South China Sea last week and forced it to take evasive maneuvers ...

The health minister will convene an extraordinary Covid advisory committee on Monday as nations impose restrictions on travellers from China amid its surge of the virus. China, undergoing up to ...

Judging by Friday’s quiet streets in China’s capital Beijing and the reluctance of some businesses to drop COVID curbs, enduring anxieties about the coronavirus are likely to hamper ...

House president Annita Demetriou on Monday signed the book of condolences for China’s former President Jiang Zemin who died last week aged 96. Visiting the Chinese embassy to sign the ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday accused NATO of whipping up tensions near China in a way that posed risks for Russia. “The South China Sea is now becoming ...

Hundreds of demonstrators and police clashed in Shanghai on Sunday night as protests over China’s stringent COVID restrictions flared for a third day and spread to several cities in ...

Canada launched a new Indo-Pacific strategy on Sunday, vowing more resources to deal with a “disruptive” China while working with the world’s second-biggest economy on climate change and trade ...

China reported its fourth straight daily record of 39,791 new COVID-19 infections on Nov. 26, of which 3,709 were symptomatic and 36,082 were asymptomatic, the National Health Commission said on Sunday. That is compared ...

Leaders of the 21-member APEC bloc pledged on Saturday to boost trade and do more to tackle other economic challenges, wrapping up the last of three summits in the region ...

Bilateral trade between China and Cyprus in the first nine months of 2022 was worth €651 million and has more than doubled compared with last year with a hike of 54.9 per cent. ...

A request by the Turkish Cypriot side to conclude a “status of the forces agreement” (SOFA) with Unficyp has been rejected by the UN Secretariat, China’s ambassador, Liu Yantao, ...

Residents welcomed China shortening Covid-19 quarantine by two days for close contacts of infected people and for inbound travellers as it eased some of its strict pandemic rules on Friday. ...

China passed legislation on Sunday aimed at giving women more protection against gender discrimination and sexual harassment, days after the bill was submitted to the country’s top legislature after ...