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The U.S. envoy for Syria says his country's withdrawal from Syria will not be "abrupt" and that Washington is working to ensure allies don't feel "under-consulted."

The leading challenger to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there will be no appeasement of Iran if he is elected

Iran's foreign minister says European nations need to do more than talk if they want to preserve a deal meant to keep Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon after the unilateral withdrawal of the United States

Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he's ashamed that Vice President Mike Pence didn't mention climate change at an international security conference and is vowing to help make it a voting issue

A top Kenyan official says the country has recalled its ambassador to Somalia and told the Somali ambassador to leave over an alleged land grab by Somalia

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has fired back at British Defense Minister Gavin Williamson, calling him the "minister of war."

The presidents of Serbia and Kosovo have traded barbs at an international security conference over the responsibility for a stalemate in efforts to improve their ties

A top Chinese official is defending Huawei, dismissing American concerns that the telecom giant might covertly collect data and report it to Beijing, and urging Europeans to ignore Washington

A senior Chinese official is signaling that Beijing isn't interested in joining an expanded version of the Cold War-era nuclear weapons treaty between the United States and Russia that Washington and Moscow have decided to abandon

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is urging allies to take seriously "the threat" posed by Chinese telecom giant Huawei as they look for partners to build 5G wireless infrastructure

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is doubling down on his criticism of European nations working to preserve a nuclear deal with Iran, saying they should follow Washington's lead and withdraw from the agreement

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says U.S. authorities appear to have concluded that European cars are a threat to national security

Business Highlights

Stocks surged on Wall Street Friday after Chinese and U.S. officials agreed to continue trade talks in Washington next week

Stocks surged on Wall Street after Chinese and U.S. officials agreed to continue trade talks in Washington next week.

The extension of key U.S.-China trade talks into next week lifted stocks in late-afternoon trading

The extension of key US-China trade talks into next week pushed stocks higher in afternoon trading

Germany's foreign minister is calling for a return to multilateral solutions, criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's go-it-alone approach as counter-productive

Trump says he might extend March 2 deadline in US-China trade negotiations; talks to resume next week

Despite Trump's tough talk on trade, his Commerce Department has approved tariff exemption requests from 370 companies for up to 4.1 million tons of foreign steel