Speaking with FRANCE 24's Mark Owen, Grégoire Roos, Director of Europe, Russia and Eurasia programme at Chatham House, says that there is a 'convergence in messaging to Donald Trump' among EU leaders,...
Frontier research lab MiroMind, a subsidiary of the China-founded multinational firm Shanda Group, has asked some of its staff in Shanghai to relocate to Singapore, according to people with knowledge ...
China’s commercial space sector logged 50 launches last year – more than half of the country’s total – underscoring the growing role of private players alongside the state-led space programme, with Be...
I'm an engineer who spent the last year fixing everything I hated about monofonts (especially that double-story 'a'). I built a custom Python-based procedural engine to generate the weights because I ...
China’s electric vehicle (EV) exports doubled in 2025 amid rising overseas demand for affordable cars and Beijing’s anti-involution campaign. The country – the world’s leading EV manufacturer – sold m...
Sen. Jeff Merkley raised concerns about ending the SAVE student-loan repayment plan. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A group of Democratic lawmakers raised concerns with Trump's proposed settlement to e...
As Russian President Vladimir Putin focuses his attentions on Moscow’s war in Ukraine, his strategic allies around the world have been left feeling neglected – or worse. In Venezuela, officials now th...
In 2025, India approved a number of major defence packages, together worth US$30 billion. Such rapid procurement approvals are relatively rare by Indian standards. However, what they signal to the reg...
Indonesia’s ambitious free nutritious meals programme has fed more than 55 million people in its first year, a scale-up President Prabowo Subianto has hailed as a major step in tackling childhood maln...
French farmers steered some 350 tractors on January 11 toward French Parliament to protest low incomes and an EU trade deal with South America that they fear threatens their livelihoods. They say thei...
Uganda’s opposition leader Bobi Wine’s wife was taken to hospital after soldiers invaded their residence, partially undressed and choked her, the couple said. Wine, a pop star-turned-politician, was n...
China’s government is likely to set this year’s economic growth target in a range between 4.5 per cent and 5 per cent, according to three sources briefed on the matter. Such a target would indicate a ...
Since Bashar al-Assad was toppled in December 2024, one of the huge challenges the new government has faced is that of division. Syrian society is made up of different sectarian and ethnic groups -- t...
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A Seoul court says an independent counsel has demanded a death sentence for former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on rebellion charges in connection with his imposition of martial law in Decembe...
A Chinese national suspected of running a Cambodia-based scam operation linked to the killing of a South Korean university student has been arrested during a raid on a luxury house in Thailand, author...
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...
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he met with his Chinese counterpart, Vice-Premier He Lifeng, on Monday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The two men have been the primary...
US President Donald Trump linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, telling Norway’s prime minister that he no longer felt “an obligatio...
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who needs to have a graft conviction overturned to seize her best chance at the French presidency, risks seeing her life's work upended if she loses her appeal. It come...