Hong Kong’s legislature on Tuesday unanimously passed a new national security law with tough penalties, including life imprisonment for treason and insurrection. “Today is a historic moment for Hong Kong,” said city leader John...
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The United Nations warned Tuesday that Israel’s severe restrictions on aid into war-ravaged Gaza coupled with its ongoing attacks could be seen as using starvation as a “weapon of war”. UN human rights chief Volker Turk decried the...
Russia has replaced the head of its navy, state media confirmed Tuesday, after reports the previous naval chief had been sacked for repeatedly losing Black Sea warships to Ukrainian attacks. The former commander of Russia’s Northern Fleet...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin promised Tuesday that the United States will not let Ukraine fail, even as further aid remains stalled in Congress and Kyiv’s forces face shortages of munitions. The Republican-led House of Representatives has...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw firing drills involving “newly-equipped super-large” multiple rocket launchers, state media said Tuesday, a day after Seoul said Pyongyang had fired several short-range ballistic missiles. The...
Nvidia on Monday announced a major expansion of its collaboration with world-leading BYD and other Chinese electric car makers, including on the development of autonomous AI-boosted vehicles. The move deepens Nvidia’s connections with the...
China said Tuesday the United States had “no right” to interfere in the South China Sea, after Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington stood by its commitments to defend the Philippines against armed attack in the disputed...
A freight truck ploughed into a police checkpoint in southern Spain early on Tuesday, killing six people including two officers, the regional government said. Three other people were injured in the accident, which happened at around 4:30 am (0330...
Japan’s central bank pulled the plug Tuesday on its ultra-aggressive monetary stimulus programme, hiking rates for the first time since the global financial crisis. The Bank of Japan’s outlier policy of negative rates and massive asset...
Anglo-Swedish pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca agreed Tuesday to buy US biopharma firm Fusion for up to $2.4 billion, its latest expansion into cancer treatments. Fusion is developing next-generation radiotherapy to treat cancer via precise...
Israel killed the Hamas militant group’s third-in-command last week, the White House said Monday, after Israel previously said he had been targeted in a Gaza airstrike but did not confirm his death. “Hamas’s number three Marwan...
A Lufthansa flight with 190 passengers on board made an emergency landing Monday in Rhodes after reporting smoke in the cabin, according to the operator of Greek regional airports, Fraport. The pilot of the aircraft travelling from Frankfurt to...
Britain’s Cambridge University confirmed on Monday that it has adopted a moratorium on new funding from fossil fuel companies after a campaign from students and academics. The decision to halt funding until a review is carried out follows...
US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday that a major ground offensive in Gaza’s Rafah would be a “mistake,” as the two leaders spoke for the first time in a month amid growing tensions...
Cuba on Monday summoned the US head of mission in Havana to rail against “interfering conduct” even as Washington denied involvement in weekend protests it said were symptomatic of a “dire situation” in the communist nation...