South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Friday that Seoul would not deploy military assets to the Middle East in a way that could draw the country into war, while acknowledging
Historical anniversaries often provide the backdrop for diplomacy to become spectacle. This week’s Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin was deliberately staged ahead of China’s grand parade marking 80 years since
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A lone Chinese dissident has captured international attention after staging a carefully planned protest against President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party, drawing direct inspiration from George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984.
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Vadim and his wife, Yuliya, thought they had finally reached safety when they crossed the U.S. southern border last year. Fleeing Yakutia in eastern Russia after falling under surveillance for their anti-war
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Scottish singer Lulu, one of Britain’s most enduring pop icons, has revealed for the first time that she struggled with alcoholism in her sixties, describing herself as a “secret drinker” whose dependence
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Bond investors are increasingly banking on Donald Trump’s sweeping import tariffs to provide a crucial revenue stream for the US government, a dramatic reversal from earlier this year when his trade war
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China showcased its latest strategic weapon, the DF-5C intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), during a massive military parade in Beijing on Wednesday marking the 80th anniversary of victory in the Chinese People’s War
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Gold surged to a new all-time high on Wednesday, surpassing $3,500 per ounce, as investors anticipated a possible interest rate cut by the US Federal Reserve this month amid concerns that ongoing
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A federal judge in San Francisco has barred the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in California, delivering a blow to the president’s efforts to expand military involvement in domestic law
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Rescuers in eastern Afghanistan are digging through rubble with shovels and bare hands after a powerful earthquake flattened homes late Sunday night, killing at least 1,411 people and injuring more than 3,100,
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On 8 December 2024, the government of Bashar al-Assad collapsed as the army of the former al-Qaeda leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa entered Damascus and seized the institutions of the Syrian state. The Syrian
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When Sunita Chauhan wed brothers Pradeep and Kapil Negi in July, videos of the wedding in Shillai, a remote village in India’s Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, quickly went viral. The ceremony,
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A team led by Prof. Mao Jirong from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, alongside international collaborators, has provided compelling evidence of standing shocks in low-angular-momentum black hole accretion
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Israel carried out a high-profile airstrike in Yemen on Thursday, reportedly targeting a gathering of senior Houthi leaders, including Defence Minister Mohamed al-Atifi and Chief of Staff Muhammad Abd al-Karim al-Ghamari. The
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Alexis Wilkins, the 26-year-old girlfriend of FBI Director Kash Patel, has filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against a former FBI agent who accused her of working as a foreign spy. Wilkins,
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Protests erupted across multiple Indonesian cities overnight, far beyond the capital, Jakarta, as demonstrators ignored President Prabowo Subianto’s call for calm, Bloomberg reports. The unrest was particularly severe in the eastern city
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