Trump brushes aside Taiwan concerns ahead of Xi meet
President Donald Trump said Monday he was ready to discuss US arms sales to Taiwan during his visit this week to Beijing, as he suggested...
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US inflation jumps to 3.8pc as energy costs surge from Iran war
US prices rose in April at their fastest rate since May 2023 as the impact of the war in Iran was increasingly felt by consumers....
Netanyahu using Iran war to reshape Middle East
The United States-Israel war on Iran is not the result of a sudden escalation but the culmination of a long-term Israeli agenda to violently reshape...
ICC confirms arrest warrant for Philippine senator
The International Criminal Court confirmed Monday an arrest warrant against a sitting Philippine senator and former enforcer of ex-president Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, as he...
London Heathrow airport traffic dips due to Mideast war
London’s Heathrow Airport announced Monday that passenger numbers dropped in April as the Middle East war disrupted global air travel. The airport handled 6.7 million...
Iran Nobel winner Mohammadi campaigner paying high price
Iranian rights activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of decades of campaigning, but her struggle has seen her separated from her...
UN needs reform to boost African representation
The United Nations must be reformed to increase African representation, secretary-general Antonio Guterres said on Monday when he broke ground on an expansion of the...
US, French nationals test positive for hantavirus
An American and a French national who have returned to their home countries having left a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of hantavirus...
Buried Iranian enriched uranium under close watch, says Trump
US President Donald Trump has said that the United States is closely monitoring Iranian enriched uranium reportedly buried under rubble, adding that the US Space...
First passengers fly home from virus-hit cruise ship
The first passengers evacuated from a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship docked near Spain’s Canary Islands have arrived in Madrid. Fourteen Spanish nationals were on the chartered...
Atef Najib faces at least 10 charges in landmark Syria trial
A cousin of toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad has been charged with at least 10 crimes, including murder, torture and responsibility for massacres, in the...
Indonesia rescuers find hikers’ bodies after volcanic eruption
Indonesian rescuers retrieved on Sunday the remains of two Singaporean hikers killed in a volcanic eruption in a seismic no-go zone, capping a three-day search...