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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun for the first time in person since 2022. The two discussed tensions in the Indo-Pacific region at the Shangri-La defence forum. The US emphasised freedom of navigation in t...

Chinese overseas investment, with a focus on minerals extraction in Africa, is rebounding post-pandemic. However, the relationship remains extractive, not fully aligned with the Belt and Road Initiative's goals outlined by President Xi Jinping.

In previously unreported details of an investigation under way into the missiles, the office of Ukraine's top prosecutor, Andriy Kostin, also told Reuters that the failure rate of the North Korean weaponry appeared to be high.

Russia has long sought to increase its share of the global LNG market, but the war and the subsequent sharp drop in overland exports to Europe have reinforced the importance of these ambitions. Moscow wants to expand LNG output three-fold by 2030, a...

Trump authorized CIA to influence Chinese public opinion against Xi Jinping's government. CIA criticized Belt and Road Initiative, aimed to create paranoia among Chinese leaders, and faced risks of escalating tensions with China.

The head of the UN climate summit pressed nations Friday to strike a deal as talks resumed after a break, with only four days left for negotiators to iron out differences over the fate of fossil fuels. A draft deal was released on Tuesday but negoti...

Aaditya Adlakha, a 26-year-old Indian doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati, died in a tragic Ohio shooting. Found shot inside a crashed vehicle, he later succumbed to injuries. The incident occurred following a report of gunfire, leaving...

Canada's intelligence linking Indian government agents to the murder of a Sikh leader has put Canada in a difficult position diplomatically. While Canada's allies like Britain and the United States are reluctant to publicly criticize India due to th...

Here are the schools / universities that will sell alcohol throughout their football stadiums in 2023. There are also some schools where beer will not be available.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping's government is making ambitious promises to drag the economy out of that crisis of confidence aggravated by tension with Washington, wilting exports, job losses and anxiety among foreign companies about an expanded anti-sp...

Taylor Swift's concert resonated in seismic charts and captivated fans worldwide and now the seismic community eagerly awaits more ground-shaking performances. Here are the details.

A year after Russia invaded its southwestern neighbour, its "no limits" partner China is offering to broker peace. It says it will issue a "position paper" on Ukraine and President Xi Jinping is expected to give a "peace speech" this week, Italy's f...

Later Friday, the Pentagon acknowledged reports of a second balloon flying over Latin America. "We now assess it is another Chinese surveillance balloon," Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon press secretary, said in a statement, declining to offer furthe...

A senior defense official told Pentagon reporters that the U.S. has "very high confidence" it is a Chinese high-altitude balloon and it was flying over sensitive sites to collect information. One of the places the balloon was spotted was Montana, wh...

After years of enforcing harsh measures to stamp out the coronavirus, President Xi Jinping's abrupt abandonment of zero-COVID in the face of protests and a widening outbreak has left China scrambling to avert a collapse of its public health system. ...

The mortality rate associated with bacterial infections was highest in Sub-Saharan Africa and lowest in high-income regions, including Western Europe and North America. Second only to ischaemic heart disease as the leading cause of death in 2019, th...

China accuses the United States of spying on universities, energy and internet companies and other targets. Washington accuses Beijing of stealing commercial secrets and has announced criminal charges against Chinese military officers. The U.S. acti...

The officials said Secretary of State Antony Blinken will lay out a three-pillar approach to competing with Beijing in a race to define the 21st century's economic and military balance in a Thursday speech outlining the administration's China policy.

The "poison pill" was invented 40 years ago by business lawyer Martin Lipton to counteract a wave of hostile takeovers on Wall Street. "It was the age of the corporate raiders," Lipton explained to the media site The Deal in 2011, from investors suc...