German Chancellor Friedrich Merz left for India on Sunday for a visit to bolster economic and security ties between the top EU economy and the Asian population giant. Both Berlin and New Delhi face a ...
The Communist Party and Taiwan’s Kuomintang (KMT) appear to be in the final stages of talks to revive an inter-party forum suspended nine years ago. The three-day forum, designed to facilitate party-t...
Hong Kong’s momentum as an initial public offering (IPO) venue is set to hurtle onwards in 2026 after funds raised from share sales more than tripled in 2025, placing the city’s exchange atop the glob...
Iran executed at least 1,500 people last year, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group said on Thursday, in what it called an “unprecedented” hike in the use of capital punishment. “It is very alarmi...
Wheels were turning in more ways than one at a packed Hong Kong Velodrome last month when cyclist Ceci Lee Sze-wing rode to her third gold medal of the 15th National Games. Roared on by home spectator...
Shanghai, China’s financial and tech hub, is aiming to foster over 200 open-source projects over the next two years as part of the city’s ambitious road map to build a world-class ecosystem amid the h...
In the wake of the US military’s dramatic capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, President Trump and his top advisers have made increasingly explicit that their next focus could be Greenland,...
A zoo in Japan has allowed its staff to mimic pandas in memory of its last four bears which have been returned to China. The unusual caged activity has been seen as an attempt to continue engaging pan...
Zohran Mamdani, the young upstart of the US left, was sworn in on Thursday to take over as New York mayor for a term sure to see him cross swords with President Donald Trump. After the clocks struck m...
Chevron, the only US oil major still operating in Venezuela, counts Berkshire Hathaway as a key shareholder. Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The Trump administra...
Venezuela underwent major economic and social changes in the mid-20th century. Jack Manning/Getty Images Venezuela, home to the world's largest oil reserves, was once among the world's richest nations...
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World leaders have been exchanging New Year’s greetings, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, with Xi using his address to express a desire to strengthen ties w...
Although we ended up stranded in the Caribbean for a bit, my family had the privilege of being flexible and adjusting our plans. David Morris My family and I found ourselves unexpectedly stranded in t...
President Donald Trump has no shame in admitting what he wants to get out of attacking Venezuela and threatening other energy resource-rich nations. "We're gonna get the oil flowing the way it should ...
Melting Arctic ice around Greenland opens new shipping routes and intensifies US competition with Russia and China, Trump has said. imageBROKER/Olaf Krüger/Getty Images Trump's renewed talks to annex ...
The scene at MDC on Saturday evening as Maduro was transported to the prison Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images Nicolás Maduro and his wife have reportedly been transferred to a federal prison in Br...
Russia's T-14 tanks are considered its best, but they don't seem to have been in Ukraine. Sean Gallup/Getty Images The British military expected to see more "prestige" Russian equipment in Ukr...
BYD container ship. NurPhoto/Getty Images Tesla just lost its status as the world's largest seller of battery EVs to a Chinese rival. BYD took Tesla's crown after Elon Musk's automaker reported its se...
Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually...