The announcement of the ceasefire's second phase marked a significant step forward but left many questions unanswered. Those include the makeup of a proposed, apolitical governing committee of Palesti...
Joshua Landis, the director of the University of Oklahoma's Centre for Middle East Studies, talks about how the Syrian military's advance across the country's north aims to end years of autonomy won b...
The U.S. experienced negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in at least half a century, according to a report released by the Brookings Institution....
President Museveni's supporters expect victory for the National Resistance Movement. Meanwhile, a youthful base frustrated by unemployment hopes whoever wins will heed their wishes for a better future...
A new report finds ongoing trauma affects survivors of a 1988 chemical weapons attack on Kurdish Iraqis in Halabja and nearby communities, highlighting the need for better health and support services....
According to Customs data, the surplus was boosted by trade gains in December, with exports climbing 6.6% from the year before, better than economists’ estimates and higher than November’s 5.9% year-o...
Hong Kong’s oldest university has been ranked seventh in the latest global league table for education, and has placed among the top 20 for medical and health. Renowned British publication Times Higher...
A decade after ending China's longtime one-child policy, authorities are pushing a range of ideas and policies to try to encourage more births – tactics that range from cash subsidies to taxing condom...
China’s top counter-espionage agency has warned that overseas entities are attempting to steal the country’s geographic data through covert mapping operations that threaten national security. Foreign ...
Australia’s former prime minister and a prominent China scholar, Kevin Rudd, will step down as ambassador to the United States a year ahead of schedule, a move some analysts say underscores a fundamen...
China’s exports defied a turbulent year of trade tensions to perform better than expected in 2025, cementing a record US$1.19 trillion annual surplus as manufacturers diversified markets to offset a s...
David Webb, the corporate governance activist renowned for his free public database and his explosive “Enigma Network” exposé that rocked the Hong Kong stock exchange, has died aged 60 of metastatic p...
Pituffik Space Base in Greenland. Ritzau Scanpix/Thomas Traasdahl via REUTERS Pituffik Space Base was established in 1951 as part of a defense treaty between the US and Denmark. Base operations includ...
The US initially planned its raid into Venezuela at a time when soldiers would be on leave, a newly released memo reveals. AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez US planning for the Maduro raid focused on a time...
Milrem Robotics is among the companies making its weapons so they can be upgraded as easily as possible. Christophe Morin/IP3/Getty Images The battlefield in Ukraine is changing constantly, and weapon...
Adek Berry/Getty Images China's population declined for the fourth year in a row, reaching 1.405 billion. Falling birth rates and an aging population threaten China's economy and the global economy. G...
A Ukrainian soldier fires a Javelin anti-tank missile. Dmytro Smolienko via Reuters Connect NATO's secretary general said up to 25,000 Russian soldiers are being killed in Ukraine each month. Mark Rut...