China and the Philippines have again exchanged barbs over confrontations in the disputed South China Sea, with each accusing the other of provocation and escalating tensions. The Chinese embassy in th...
As US President Donald Trump’s tariff increases have roiled global markets and strained America’s alliances in recent months, China has been pursuing the opposite strategy: keeping import duties low a...
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...
Iran’s streets have once again become a site of uncertainty, but this time the tremors extend far beyond its borders. Unrest that began in late December spread across multiple provinces and continued ...
A Republican congressman from Florida introduced a bill on Monday to annex Greenland and make it the 51st US state as President Donald Trump threatens to seize the autonomous Danish territory. Trump h...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s first visit to Asia has raised India’s hopes for a long-awaited trade pact with the European Union as Berlin pushes for deeper engagement with South Asia amid height...
A monument of Turkmenistan's former president, in Ashgabat. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images An Air France flight from India to Paris diverted to Turkmenistan. It was already running almost a ...
Another deadly night in Ukraine saw continued Russian bombardments, including strikes on the capital that killed one person and wounded four, while the country’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, was also...
Alberta is a very cold place in winter, even by Canadian standards. And yet, in the past week, hundreds of Albertans formed long queues in freezing weather, in big cities and small towns, to sign a pe...
Firefighters in Karachi began searching on Monday for more than 60 missing people after a massive fire destroyed a shopping centre in Pakistan’s most populous city, while the death toll from the disa...
Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao is winding up its operations in Canada by the end of this month, marking the closure of all newsrooms run by the city’s major print publications in the North American coun...
Thailand’s election season has triggered a dizzying array of cash giveaway offers from parties vying for votes, from a US$2,000 payment for newborns to debt write-offs and US$100 monthly top-ups for t...
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...
Despite US President Donald Trump’s insistence on acquiring Greenland, public support for the idea remains low. A Reuters/Ipsos poll of US residents this week showed that fewer than one in five respon...
China's JY-27A radar didn't appear to be effective during the US raid on Venezuela. US Air Force Photo Venezuela's Chinese air defense radars weren't game-changing during the US raid to capture Maduro...
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...
Interceptor drones, such as this one, often feature a dome-shaped head and four propellers. AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka A pair of YouTubers in South Africa has set a record speed of 408 mph with their ...
Air Force One Rebecca Blackwell/AP Any Air Force plane carrying a US president is called Air Force One. President John F. Kennedy was the first to use a jet designed specifically for a US president. P...
French President Emmanuel Macron said his country is now providing Ukraine with "two-thirds" of its intelligence. Philippe Magoni / POOL / AFP via Getty Images Emmanuel Macron said that France...
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says its edge over Silicon Valley isn't smarter models, but being a European alternative built for control, sovereignty, and trust. LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Ar...