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...
The Adelaide Writers' Week retracted an invitation to an Australian-Palestinian author, citing the the Bondi Beach attack. Dozens, including the event's director and the former PM of New Zealand, with...
Taiwan has begun co-producing 155mm (6.1-inch) artillery shells with the US, as the island moves to strengthen wartime ammunition resilience amid Beijing’s escalating military pressure and concern ove...
Canada and China appear ready to kick-start trade talks after years of strained relations, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to Beijing this week coinciding with both countries question...
Grok - the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk's company - is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have ...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Iran’s current leadership may be nearing its end amid mass protests across the country. “If a regime can only stay in power through the use of violence, then it i...
The draft provision would treat tokens as “non-ancillary” assets, exempt from SEC securities rules, if they were in an ETF by 2026....
Pakistan has signed an agreement with SC Financial Technologies, a firm linked to Trump-backed World Liberty Financial, to explore using its USD1 stablecoin for payments....
President Donald Trump made an unconventional pick for his nomination to the Federal Trade Commission: WeatherTech founder and CEO David MacNeil. MacNeil founded the company, which makes weather-resis...
Several state prosecutors have reportedly resigned over the lack of a civil rights investigation into the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent. The US Justice Department denies the...
An Iranian went on trial in France Tuesday accused of promoting "terrorism" on social media in a case linked to a possible prisoner swap with two French citizens held by the Islamic republic for over ...
The Senate passed a bill that could give people who've found their likeness deepfaked into sexually-explicit images without their consent a new way to fight back. The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images an...
Russia and Venezuela maintain a strategic partnership spanning energy, defense, and diplomacy. Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images Russia's state-owned Roszarubezhneft says its Venezuelan oil assets belong t...
Marine Le Pen's presidential ambitions hang in the balance as the French far-right leader goes to court to appeal against an embezzlement conviction, which barred her from running for office for five ...
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Tuesday he was "horrified" by the violence in Iran as a government crackdown continued. The Human Rights Activists News Agency estimated the death toll at 646 w...
Honduras electoral authorities rejected on Monday an order by the outgoing president to recount November’s election won by Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura. Asfura, a conservative businessman, was ...
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...
US President Donald Trump’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been held up as an example of American military power. As Venezuela is not a producer of fentanyl – despite the United ...
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...
Enrolment at Harvard for Chinese students rose in the autumn from a year earlier, even as the Donald Trump administration moved to rein in visas for them and limit foreign enrolment and funding at the...