Shanghai, mainland China’s commercial and financial hub, has pledged to step up policing its manufacturing sectors to curb prolonged payment cycles that affect thousands of supply-chain vendors. Gu Ju...
Rewatch as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth journalists as the U.S. has reiterated demands to take over Greenland and seized two Venezuela-linked oil tank...
Commerce ministry assessing whether deal for Chinese-founded group violates technology export controls...
Facilities across the Gulf Coast are already well poised to process imports from the South American country...
Cyprus, Greece and Israel are set to step up joint military exercises and training. Turkey seems more concerned about the two EU members' growing procurement of advanced weapons systems from Israel....
More than half of the victims were under 18, with two as young as 14 years old. Switzerland will hold a day of mourning on Friday in memory of the victims....
Shortly before the US military launched an attack on Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro , an account on Polymarket made some very suspiciously timed investments. The prediction mar...
Donald Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles revealed regime change is top of the White House agenda when it comes to Venezuela. But it may not be purely about restoring democracy....
Though 2025 saw flagrant human rights abuses across the globe, the year also brought many positive developments....
China's military exercises come less than two weeks after the US announced a record $11.1 billion arms package to Taiwan. Taipei condemned the drills as irresponsible but said it would not escalate te...
Bangladesh's first female prime minister, Khaleda Zia — once praised for restoring democracy and empowering millions of women — has died at the age of 80....
At a moment of regional tension and uncertainty, Israel reported the targeted killing of an Iranian agent in Lebanon....
Donald Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura won Honduras’ presidential election, electoral authorities said on Wednesday, ending a weeks-long count that has whittled away at the credibility of the Cent...
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 ...
For the UK, last year saw the highest number of migrant arrivals across the English Channel since 2022. In contrast, irregular entries into the EU stabilised in the first 11 months of the year....
A unique wedding ritual among China’s Bao’an ethnic group known as “flogging the father-in-law” sees the family of the groom symbolically whip the bride’s father 20 times. As he endures his “punishmen...
The National Police intercepted a merchant ship in the Atlantic with 9,994 kilos of cocaine hidden in salt. Thirteen people have been arrested following an international operation supported by the DEA...
The vessel, flagged from St Vincent and the Grenadines, is believed to have dragged its anchor along the seabed for several kilometres, according to Finnish authorities....
Tai Kwun has named Philip Tinari as its head of art, bringing one of mainland China’s most high-profile art personalities to the Hong Kong cultural institution. He replaces Pi Li, who will be leaving ...
Myanmar began a second round of voting Sunday in the country's first general election since a takeover that installed a military government five years ago. Voting expanded to additional townships incl...