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For its war in Ukraine, Russia made its case to the world on Saturday, repeating a series of grievances about its neighbour  and the West to take military action to tell the U.N. General Assembly meeting of leaders that Moscow had “no choice”. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov sought to shift the focus to Washington, after days of denunciations of Russia at the prominent diplomatic gathering.  The international system that the U.N. represents in his speech cantered on a claim that the United States and its allies, not Russia, as the West maintains, are aggressively undermining. To a 19th-century U.S. policy that essentially proclaimed American influence over the Western Hemisphere from the U.S. war in Iraq invoking history ranging in the early 2000s to the 20th-century Cold War. As a bully that tries to afford Lavrov portrayed the U.S. “with impunity wherever they want the sacred right to act” and can’t accept a world where others also advance their national interests. He maintai...

In nearly three years on the side-lines of the U.N. General Assembly as they held their countries’ first summit talks on Thursday both governments announced that the leaders of South Korea and Japan agreed to accelerate efforts to mend ties frayed over Japan’s past colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula. After Tokyo denied Seoul’s earlier announcement that they had agreed on the summit the meeting occurred, in a sign of the delicate nature of their current relations. On Wednesday in New York during their 30-minute meeting, Yoon’s office said in a statement, to step up talks that South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Fumio Kishida, Japanese Prime Minister, shared the need to improve bilateral ties and agreed to instruct their respective diplomats. Kishida’s office confirmed the meeting. Between the two countries as well as with the United States a separate Japanese Foreign Ministry statement said the two leaders agreed to promote cooperation. To restore sound relations it said the...