SEOUL A US naval strike group led by the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz will arrive in South Korea this weekend for sea drills, officials said Friday, following joint exercises that infuriated North Korea.As well as the nuclear-powered Nimitz, the group includes three guided-missile cruisers and destroyers, the US military said in a statement, without specifying the total size of the group.A port call in the southern city of Busan is planned for Saturday.US Navy ship visits are a tangible
MOSCOW British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday arrived in Russia s resort city of Sochi for talks on Syria with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid a new international push to find a way to end the two-year conflict.The Syrian problem will be discussed," Putin s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told AFP, adding bilateral issues would also be on the agenda. Cameron flew to Putin s palm-dotted residence on the Black Sea before the British premier s planned meeting with US President Barack
BEIJING Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid began a two-day trip to China Thursday, as the Asian giants seek to repair the damage from a border flare-up that highlighted long-rumbling tensions.The world s two most populous countries have in recent years seen relations improve and trade boom, and both sides had sought to stay low-key over the latest row, which lasted several weeks.Two-way trade totalled $69 billion in 2012, dominated by $54 billion of Chinese exports to India,