SHANGHAI, July 17 - Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday cast Beijing as the champion of a new global AI order, using China's premier tech conference to promote open-source technology and challenge U.S. influence over the rules governing the fast-moving sector.
For three decades, India was the world’s back office. During the next three decades, it may become the world’s AI workshop. That possibility lies behind one of the most consequential questions facing India’s economy. Artificial intelligence threatens the very industry that
This month, multiple media outlets reported that satellite imagery showed a detailed, full-scale replica of a US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer in China’s remote Taklamakan Desert. Construction of the 155-meter mock-up began around October 2025 at the
Their eldest sister, who had been receiving the goods, said they were arrested for “supporting terrorists.”
The revised law aims to address issue of the shrinking royal family.
DUBAI, July 17 - Iran said it launched fresh attacks on U.S. facilities in the Gulf on Friday after a sixth consecutive night of U.S. strikes on Iranian military facilities, as last month's truce descended into daily attacks and counterattacks.
AI has become a strategic pillar of China’s industrial policy, driven by state investment.
SEOUL, July 17 - North Korean state media on Friday called South Korea a \"puppet\" following its participation in a maritime exercise led by the U.S., saying Seoul and Washington would need to bear responsibility for any \"unpredictable escalation\" in the region.
The latest legal revision makes no mention of female or maternal-line emperors.
However, it is unclear if Starlink will be interested in making its satellite service available to the island.
"We should jointly oppose overstretching the national security concept in the field of AI or placing one country's security over that of others," said China's President Xi Jinping.
The ministry said the move “severely undermined” Chinese companies’ confidence in investing in Britain.
Two boats carrying an estimated 530 Rohingyas have disappeared since leaving Myanmar on 29 June.
“Custom chip” is the new buzzword. Everyone is getting into it. The big and the small. The public and the private. Companies that never built anything but software and companies that never built anything but gadgets. From one corner of the world to every other. The word is now
Beijing had made AI leadership a national priority, targeting global dominance.
Media reports say Laos will press charges of up to one year in jail against those allegedly responsible.
The UK government said taking the firm into public hands would safeguard "a vital national capability".
India tightened scrutiny of Chinese investment following deadly border clashes in 2020.
China Daily posted a video of a monkey being forced to sing its claims to the South China Sea.
Malaysia recently launched an immigration probe into people associated with Srinivasan's start-up school.
Six tourists, including two Australians, died from drinking tainted alcohol in Laos in November 2024.
The police will also investigate whether district officials failed to inspect the building properly.
This affects a system that processes millions of passport, visa and consular applications each year.
WASHINGTON, July 16 - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that China carried out what is believed to be \"the largest compromise of election data in history\" by China starting during the 2020 election cycle.
Activist Sonam Wangchuk his demanding the education minister resign over exam irregularities.
July 17 - As Estonia's Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur prepared to fly to the NATO summit in Ankara this month, he revealed to local journalists that several hundred U.S. troops deployed to his Baltic nation in the winter had quietly been withdrawn – with no clear sign of when or
The video portrayed a monkey dressed in Filipino attire being directed by the US and Japan.
Athipat Wichan tells BBC Thai he regrets bringing his girlfriend Nahathai into his indie band Thotsakan.
Previously little-known in Europe, the Midea PortaSplit has become a household name this summer.
Malaysia's Democratic Action Party chief Anthony Loke tells CNA why he remains a believer in coalition politics – and how Pakatan Harapan is hopeful of winning the Aug 1 Negeri Sembilan state election.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s diplomatic blitz is the latest sign of middle powers drawing closer together. It has not gone unnoticed by Washington, says former foreign correspondent Nirmal Ghosh.
SEOUL, July 17 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held talks with Wang Huning, China's fourth-highest-ranked official in Pyongyang, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported on Friday.
SEOUL, July 17 - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held talks with Wang Huning, China's fourth-highest-ranked official in Pyongyang, the state-run Korean Central News Agency reported on Friday.
Power of Siberia 2, a landmark natural gas pipeline that would link Russia and China, has hit a deadlock, with a gas-price gap so vast that Beijing has told Moscow to stop raising the subject altogether. Neither side has formally walked away, but no timeline for a deal or for
Robusta is often dismissed as bitter, harsh and fit mainly for instant coffee, but growers aim to change that view.
KYIV – The dismissal of popular reform-minded Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has sent shockwaves through Ukrainian politics and society, leading to impromptu protests in Kyiv and other cities across Ukraine on July 16. On the evening of July 15, Fedorov announced on Facebook
Satellite images show 21 newly built drive-through buildings likely designed to shelter launch vehicles.
Nearly 100 people were taken to hospital after complaining that they could not breathe.
The boat was already partially sunken when rescuers reached it near Selayar, a small island south of the larger Sulawesi.
July 16 - Armenia has seized control of a cement company owned by an arrested opposition leader, state media said on Thursday, as critics accuse Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan of waging a crackdown on opponents since winning re-election last month.
BEIJING, July 16 - Twenty-nine countries on Thursday signed an agreement to establish the World AI Cooperation Organization, an intergovernmental body China says aims to promote international cooperation and global governance in artificial intelligence.
Ziaur Rahman, a war hero who went on to become president, was killed in 1981 during a military coup.
ISLAMABAD, July 16 - Attacks on Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis this week have frustrated Pakistan and threaten to draw Islamabad into the conflict, complicating any future role it may have as a mediator between the United States and Iran.
The dispute came from wording that failed to distinguish between foreigners and overseas cards.