Civilians fled a Kurdish-held region of northern Syria on Friday before a deadline set by the army, which seeks to expand its control over the area after driving Kurdish forces from Aleppo. The govern...
China has opened an antitrust investigation into Trip.com Group, the country’s largest online travel services provider, weeks before hundreds of millions of people on the mainland go away on holiday d...
China’s top counter-espionage agency has warned that overseas entities are attempting to steal the country’s geographic data through covert mapping operations that threaten national security. Foreign ...
The Chilean government has awarded a contract to Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech to supply its influenza vaccine ahead of the southern hemisphere winter. The vaccine will be part of Chi...
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 ...
Catherine Viette welcomes Kim Aris, son of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who bears witness to the fraught political landscape of Myanmar five years after the 2021 military coup. Mr. Ari...
Arctic island desired by Donald Trump has a shaky economy reliant on Denmark, fishing and foreign labour...
Scars of a crackdown, which have brought anti-regime demonstrations to an end for now, are visible across Iran’s capital...
The country is the darling of investors, but that could change...
Meeting with senior US figures follows escalating Donald Trump campaign to take Greenland...
Syrian government forces entered two northern towns Saturday morning after the command of Kurdish-led fighters said it would evacuate the area in an apparent move to avoid conflict. Two soldiers were ...
Despite an increase in the number of women of childbearing age in France, the number giving birth is at a low. In 2025 there were more deaths than births which has some towns concerned that they are l...
Former Corsican nationalist leader Alain Orsoni, who also served as the president of soccer club AC Ajaccio, was shot dead in Corsica on January 11 during his mother’s funeral. He was 71. Alain Orsoni...
Move comes despite Trump’s threat to ‘take very strong action’ if Tehran executes demonstrators...
Trump expected to hold ceremony to constitute his Gaza Board of Peace as early as Thursday at World Economic Forum in Switzerland as allies question if they will join....
At least 47% of executions carried out in Iran in 2025 had been related to drug offences, the UN human rights office said....
A new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, “Ideas of Africa: Portraiture and Political Imagination”, features photographic portraits by African artists and captures the spirit of...
One of Russia's goals, in addition to persecuting its own citizens, "is territorial expansion, mass murder and attacks on civilian targets, including hospitals and schools," the Polish president said....
The announcement of the ceasefire's second phase marked a significant step forward but left many questions unanswered. Those include the makeup of a proposed, apolitical governing committee of Palesti...
On Thursday, the French president offered his New Year's address to the armed forces. The eagerly awaited annual event comes amid multiple geopolitical crises....