President Barack Obama sparred with Russia's Vladimir Putin over how to end the war in Syria on Monday during an icy encounter at a G8 summit where divisions over the conflict eclipsed the rest of the agenda.
Its intended guest, North Korea, has stopped answering the phone. North Korea is interested in reviving the two economic projects that were to be the main focus of the meetings, both as an emblem of reconciliation and as a source of foreign investment and hard cash.
GENEVA- The death toll in Syria reached at least 93,000 at the end of April, but the true number from the violence now in its third year may be much higher, the United Nations human rights office said on Thursday.
*Agreement to pressure North Korea on nuclear arms. President Barack Obama confronted Chinese President Xi Jinping over allegations of cyber theft on Saturday but they agreed at a shirtsleeves summit in the California desert on reining in North Korea.
President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed on Saturday to apply more pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, during a two-day summit where Obama aired U.S. complaints that China is engaging in cyber theft.
Obama and Xi had wide-ranging talks, including a 50- minute chat outdoors, to conclude a get-to-know-you visit that included an extensive discussion of how to rein in North Korea, whose belligerent rhetoric in recent months has rattled the Asia-Pacific as well as the United States.
President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, completed two days of get-to-know-you talks on Saturday that covered disputes like cyber hacking and North Korea and may set the stage for U.S.-Chinese relations for years to come.
President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping launched a second day of discussions on Saturday on thorny issues from cyber hacking to North Korea at a get-to-know-you summit that may set the stage for U.S.-Chinese relations for years to come.
Ties between Beijing and Washington have been buffeted in recent months by strains over trade disputes, North Korea, human rights and each country's military intentions.
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif., June 8- U.S. Ties between Beijing and Washington have been buffeted in recent months by strains over trade disputes, North Korea, human rights and each country's military intentions.
Hosting Xi at a two-day summit in a luxurious desert estate in southern California, Obama said the United States welcomes China's "peaceful rise" but made clear that Beijing must play by the same rules of economic world order as other major nations.
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 7- President Barack Obama will complain to Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit on Friday about alleged Chinese hacking of U.S. secrets, even as the White House faces growing questions at home over American government surveillance.
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 7- President Barack Obama will complain to Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit on Friday about alleged Chinese hacking of U.S. secrets, even as the White House faces growing questions at home over American government surveillance.
WASHINGTON, June 7- On the site of a former military golf course where President Dwight Eisenhower once played, the future of U.S. warfare is rising in the shape of the new $358 million headquarters for the military's Cyber Command.
TALKS: North and South Korea agreed to hold talks on reopening a jointly run factory complex and other cross-border issues, after months of deteriorating relations and a day before a U.S.- China summit. NEIGHBORLY ADVICE: North Korea relies heavily on China, which like the U.S. wants North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions.
*Seeking common ground with China against N.Korea. WASHINGTON, June 4- President Barack Obama will tell Chinese President Xi Jinping at a California summit this week that Washington considers Beijing responsible for any cyber attacks launched from Chinese soil and must take action to curb high-tech spying, White House officials said on Tuesday.
BEIRUT- Hezbollah guerrillas fought a deadly battle with Syrian rebels in Lebanon's eastern border region early on Sunday, security sources said, in the latest eruption of Syria's conflict on Lebanese soil.
CHANGBAI, China/ SEOUL, June 3- Chinese currency and U.S. dollars are being used more widely than ever in North Korea instead of the country's own money, a stark illustration of the extent to which the leadership under Kim Jung- un has lost control over the economy.
WASHINGTON, June 1- A shirt-sleeves summit between the world's two top economic powers is shaping up as anything but relaxing, with an assertive new Chinese leadership seeking a bigger place at the global table and the United States pushing back, especially in the battle over cyberspace.
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