India’s major farmer group revolts against US trade deal

Concerns persist over whether New Delhi has made too many concessions in agriculture under the deal with the US.

Seven killed in gold mine accident in eastern China, state media CCTV reports

BEIJING, Feb 10 - Seven people were killed in a gold mine accident in China's eastern Shandong province, and authorities were investigating, state-run CCTV reported, sending shares of the mine owner, Zhaojin Mining Industry, down 6% on Tuesday.

Philippines sees signs of cooperation from China despite sea disputes

Envoy Jose Manuel Romualdez said Manila’s relationship with Beijing should not be defined solely by maritime disputes.

South Korea government calls Coupang breach of 33.7m records worst ever

Information leaked included names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses.

Senior Chinese official calls for 'resolutely' cracking down on 'Taiwan independence' separatists

BEIJING, Feb 10 - A senior Chinese official has called for \"resolutely\" cracking down on \"Taiwan independence\" separatist forces and opposing interference by external forces this year to safeguard peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait, state agency Xinhua reported Tuesday.

Australia asks for meeting with Roblox after grooming, content complaints

SYDNEY, Feb 10 - The Australian government has called a meeting with gaming platform Roblox over reports of child grooming and exposure to graphic content on the platform, while a regulator said it will test whether Roblox had delivered on child-safety commitments.

Africa: PM Abiy Urges Ethiopians to Extend Warm Welcome to AU Delegates

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has called on Ethiopians to warmly welcome African leaders and delegates as Addis Ababa prepares to host the 39th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Summit.

Elon Musk’s space data centre plans could see SpaceX monopoly on AI and computing, experts warn

Elon Musk’s plans for space data centres may be decades away, but experts warn nations cannot afford to wait until they are a reality.

Japan elects fewer women MPs in snap election

it dealt a blow to already underrepresented women in male-dominated Japanese politics.

Africa: Africa Must Unite Amid Global Uncertainty - Mantashe

[SAnews.gov.za] Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has called on African countries to work together at a "moment of profound global uncertainty".

Malaysia’s top court restores conviction and jail sentence on former palm oil agency head

The court ordered that Mohamad Isa Abdul Samad begin serving his six-year sentence on Feb 10.

Death toll from heavy snowfall in Japan rises to 46

Continued snowfall since late January has buried northern communities and caused traffic chaos.

South Korea’s army eyes 24-hour childcare services for military families

Service members and military civilian staff face difficulties in arranging childcare.

Jimmy Kimmel Slams Trump For Calling Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Performance ‘An Affront to the Greatness of America’: ‘This Is a Man Who Paid Off a Porn Star Who Spanked Him’

Jimmy Kimmel on Monday went after Donald Trump for his scathing review of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. “Bad Bunny got a bad review from our bad president, unfortunately,” Kimmel said during Monday’s broadcast of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “He wrote, ‘The Super Bowl halftime

Malaysia’s ageing palm oil plantations to hit 2 million hectares by 2027

About 35 per cent of Malaysian palm oil plantations will be 19 years or older by 2027.

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell refuses to answer US lawmakers and appeals for pardon

Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell refused to answer questions from US lawmakers on Monday in link to new Epstein investigations, while her attorney asks US President Trump for clemency.

UK appoints Cost of Living Champion to help poorest families and their energy bills

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has directly appointed Lord Richard Walker as the Government’s Cost of Living Champion. Lord Richard Walker will work across Government while enhancing partnerships with businesses, regulators, and a broad range of organizations to consider

Bison hunters abandoned long-used site 1,100 years ago to adapt to changing climate, Great Plains study finds

On the Great Plains of North America, bison were hunted for thousands of years before populations collapsed to near extinction due to overexploitation in the late 1800s. But long before then, bison hunters used various strategies and different types of sites, sometimes

Africa: Marshall Center Fellows Visit U.S. Africa Command to Prepare for Leadership Roles

[Africom] Germany -- Senior fellows from the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies visited U.S. Africa Command headquarters on Feb. 4, for a strategic overview of the command's mission and its partnership-focused approach to security in Africa.

‘Best to leave before 8am’: Malaysian highway operator urges motorists to plan their journeys

PLUS is pushing drivers to use its travel app ahead of festive traffic surge.

UK tightens immigration policy, three countries to take back illegal migrants after visa threat

UK’s Home Secretary has announced that three African countries will have their visas to Britain downed if they don’t cooperate on returning deported illegal migrants and criminals to their countries of origin.

Africa: Zijin to Acquire Allied Gold for $4b As Africa Push Grows

[Daba Finance] Zijin Mining is finalizing a $4 billion all-cash acquisition of Allied Gold Corporation, tightening its grip on African gold output as prices surge.

Africa: Canal+ Targets Africa Synergies After Multichoice Takeover

[Daba Finance] Canal+ outlined the first benefits of its acquisition of MultiChoice, pointing to Africa as the main source of cost savings and growth.

Africa: Africans Want Elections but Don't Trust Electoral Management Bodies to Ensure They're Free and Fair

[Afrobarometer] Assessments of election quality have worsened over the past decade.

Jon Stewart Slams Conservative Outrage Over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show: Trump Thinks ‘Bad Bunny Is the One Guy in the World That’s Fluent in Spanish’

On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart covered the conservative outrage over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show. “Mr. Bunny killed it, despite being trapped in an inescapable sugarcane hedge maze,” Stewart joked. “He had Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and The

Africa: Children's Views Are Rarely Sought By Researchers - We Found a Way to Do It

[The Conversation Africa] Adults think we know what is best for children. We have responsibility for them - feeding them, clothing them, educating them, protecting them, loving them - but we also assume rights over them, and on their behalf. Adults make rules (including laws

Africa: African Climate Science-Policy Has a Serious Blind Spot - the Slowing Atlantic Circulation

[The Conversation Africa] The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularised the devastating effects of sudden climate change on planet Earth. The plot dramatises the consequences of a shut-down in an ocean current, and features the Northern

Five years after Myanmar coup, ‘even hope has become a risk’

Now Myanmar’s university system is in shambles.

Chagos deal wasn’t such a “great stupidity” after all, admits Trump

Relief in UK as Donald Trump back stepped and ended supporting the Labor government’s Chagos islands deal with Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, including the joint US/UK Diego Garcia base, when only a couple of weeks ago the US president described the whole issue as a “Great

Argentina faces ARS 10 trillion maturities as Treasury sets Feb. 11 debt auction menu

Argentina’s Economy Ministry published the instrument menu for the Feb. 11 debt auction, closely watched by markets given the size of maturities: nearly ARS 10 trillion (around USD 7 million), about ARS 9 trillion of which is held by private investors.

Falklands, top Royal Navy officer visits BFSAI headquarters at MPC

Earlier this month British Forces South Atlantic Islands, BFSAI, hosted Rear Admiral Jude Terry who met with a range of service personnel based at the Falkland Islands. Rear Admiral Jude Terry is the first woman to hold non-honorary flag rank in the Royal Navy, and was

Chickenpox ruled out in President Orsi after return from official China trip

Uruguay’s President Yamandú Orsi tested negative for chickenpox after undergoing screening prompted by a confirmed case within the official delegation that returned from a trip to China, the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) said on Monday.

Judge Bans Some Lil Durk Lyrics as Evidence in Murder-for-Hire Trial, Still Weighing Others

Prosecutors won't be able to use lyrics from Durk's “Hanging with Wolves” track that talk about catching a flight

Indonesia weighs sending up to 8,000 troops for Gaza peace plan

Indonesia has stepped up diplomatic messaging on Gaza in recent months.

China releases policy paper on national security in Hong Kong after Jimmy Lai sentencing

The White Paper said that Hong Kong's practice of safeguarding national security had consolidated the security foundation of the city's one country, two systems governance model.

FBI not aware of 'continued' communication between Guthrie family, suspected kidnappers as ransom deadline passes

The FBI on Monday said it was "not aware of any continued communication between" Nancy Guthrie's family and her suspected kidnappers, with a reported ransom deadline having already passed. "For more than a week, FBI agents, analysts, and professional staff have worked around

January ranks as fifth warmest globally despite severe cold spells, Copernicus says

Last month was the world’s fifth-warmest January on record, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported, even as sharp cold spells hit large parts of the Northern Hemisphere in the second half of the month. Global mean surface air temperature reached 12.95°C,

Weird roguelike tactical cats game Mewgenics release date and launch time

Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel's cat combat game launches on Tuesday, February 10.

A purse-snatching that led to manslaughter claim spotlights Indonesia’s use of restorative justice

Experts have said that restorative justice should not be used as a mechanism to bin cases.

South Korea police raid spy agency over drone flights into North

Three civilians have already been charged for their alleged role in the drone scandal.

Who owns our digital afterlife? Helping the law keep pace with society

Alongside traditional estates, we now leave behind digital remains after we die, from social media accounts and emails to AI-generated recreations of ourselves. Our digital legacies are creating new and potentially troubling questions about autonomy and dignity after death. Dr.

New Zealand mosque shooter’s former lawyers say he showed anxiety but did not appear depressed

Brenton Tarrant was pleased when police charged him on terrorism offences.

The scramble to inherit Bangladesh 2.0

The ghosts of the old guard won’t be on the ballot in Dhaka this week, but they are haunting every corner of the campaign trail. When Bangladeshis head to the polls on February 12, they are performing a high-stakes autopsy on a collapsed autocracy and attempting to breathe life

New Zealand mosque shooter's former lawyers say he showed anxiety but did not appear depressed

Feb 10 - Former lawyers for the white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand seven years ago told a court on Tuesday that he showed signs of anxiety during his original trial but did not appear to be depressed, media reported.

Crystals in a new light: Research team proposes rethinking crystal structure analysis

Every crystal's shape is a mirror of the internal arrangement of its molecules, but the molecules in photoswitchable crystals can expand, twist and change properties—from their color to their electronic conductivity—with a simple flash of light. This has made them highly

Japan election results confirm super-majority for Takaichi's party

Japan election results confirm supermajority for Takaichi's party

Having a two-thirds majority allows Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government to override decisions by the upper house, where her coalition is in a minority.

US to exempt some Bangladeshi clothes from tariffs

The White House agreed to carve out exemptions for US-produced cotton from Bangladesh.