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BEIJING, July 31 - China's coast guard conducted patrols it described as routine law enforcement in waters east of Taiwan on Friday, angering Taipei, which condemned the move as a political operation aimed at expanding Beijing's control.
KATHMANDU, July 31 - At least 10 climbers, including famed Nepali mountaineer Nirmal Purja, were missing on Pakistan's Broad Peak after a suspected avalanche hit an expedition on the mountain, a Pakistani sports association and a person tracking the climb said on Friday.
The anthemic track follows the singer's recent album, Wor$t Girl in America
BEIJING, July 31 - Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China's defence capabilities, according to a Reuters review of more than 80 Chinese
Driven by deep continental insight, Ghanaian entrepreneur Nana Osei Afrifa is challenging global tech giants by expanding Afrifanom with VaMijo, which aims to become Africa’s major ride-hailing and courier platform.
On 17 July 2026 the Commission registered two European citizens' initiatives. The initiative ‘All On Board - For your right to citizenship without borders’ calls for ‘an all-of-society approach for a democratic Europe, resting on education and universal suffrage’. Its
TOKYO — South Korea has outrun the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the 2008 Lehman shock, and the 2013 taper tantrum. Whether it can outrun its own AI boom is a harder test — and one the last week of Kospi whiplash put on stark display. Korea sits at the front of a pack of
Apple’s iPhone revenue jumped by almost 22% in the three months to June, but its forecast for the current quarter fell short of analysts’ expectations.
Nirmal Purja climbed all 14 “eight-thousanders” in six months and six days – then a record.
The sets are reportedly coming in October
It comes after a three-day rout that wiped hundreds of billions of dollars off the value of the country's stock market.
It comes after a three-day rout that wiped hundreds of billions of dollars off the value of the country's stock market.
The US believed China wanted its military ready to be able to win a conflict over Taiwan by 2027.
BEIJING, July 31 - China's President Xi Jinping urged senior leaders of the ruling Communist Party on Friday to deepen the fight against corruption in the military and to advance the modernisation of national defence, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Ehsan Khoshbakht explains what Charlie Chaplin, Dorothy Parker, 'High Noon,' noir films, Paul Thomas Anderson and, yes, even The Hollywood Reporter's own past have to do with "Red & Black."
Thanks to the EU co-ordinated investigation by Europol and Eurojust, a very large criminal network of telephone fraud has been dismantled in Albania. The criminal network has operated several call centres in Tirana, Albania, and caused at least EUR 50 million in financial
From 31 July hourly parking charges will increase by about 50% at several hospitals in the county.
European children are in worse physical shape than at almost any point in the last 60 years, new research shows, which will have an impact on both the current and future health of this population.
The pilot had just flown a Malaysia Airlines plane from Kuala Lumpur to Jakarta. and was found to have been under the influence of cocaine and methamphetamine after a urine test.
Food in Community takes unwanted and surplus produce from growers and farmers.
The world’s largest railway tunnel between Austria and Italy has created a mega-landfill in the Alps. Can developers restore it sustainably?
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The two Italian lakes have attracted holidaymakers since Roman times, with organised tourism becoming a key business around both shorelines by the 19th century.
With an October deadline unlikely to yield major concessions from Beijing given structural and leverage imbalances, EU-China trade tensions look set to keep escalating.
The violence and intimidation directed at African migrants in South Africa is morally indefensible. It is also intellectually lazy.
The 'Stranger Things' star joined Tom Holland, Zendaya and Jacob Batalon for the fourth installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In a landmark diplomatic encounter held in Paris, Sylvan Adams, President of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) Israel, met with Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi to express joint hopes for the liberation of the Iranian populace, the collapse of the current regime in Tehran, and the
Tomahawk missiles are a centerpiece of Tokyo’s new defence strategy.
Two themes dominate Japan’s elite thinking at present: a blend of awe and fear about the ambitions of Japan’s powerful prime minister, Sanae Takaichi; and concerns about the US-Japan security alliance. Takaichi became prime minister last October through winning a party
The announcement comes just days after rivals OpenAI revealed that their popular ChatGPT platform went rogue during its testing phase of its most powerful AI model, where it too infiltrated other organisations’ cyberspace.
By Kanishka Singh and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON, July 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his so-called Board of Peace reached a deal for the total disarmament of Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza and the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the
The YouTuber has been found guilty for two counts of assault over the 2024 incident in Perth.
The actress will preside over the Oct. 6 kickoff of the festival's 31st edition, which is looking to build on the success of the new flagship competition section it unveiled last year.
The man faces the death penalty or a life sentence if found guilty.
The man faces the death penalty or a life sentence if found guilty; MAS conducting internal review.
The plan - if successful - potentially removes the most significant obstacle to advancing the Trump-backed peace initiative in Gaza.
Trump said the deal to advance his 20-point peace plan will be rolled out in “carefully structured phases”, but did not announce a timeline as to when the process may be completed.
The underrated 3D Mario game will be part of Switch Online's GameCube library
Football's governing body Fifa plans to continue the consultation process after Uefa threatens to boycott World Cups.
On the surface, Ariana Grande’s “Petal” is a sister album to its predecessor, 2024’s “Eternal Sunshine” — it was made with the same two collaborators, Ilya Salmanzadeh and Max Martin, and it also was entirely written, performed and produced by the three of them. Usually, that
It's a confluence of country and alt-rock on the collab "Hardwired," which nods to the indie icons' song "Where Is My Mind?"
Rage is all over the pop superstar’s eighth LP, Petal — and it suits her
Sony Pictures Entertainment posted a sales decline for the June 2026 quarter, offset by growth at Crunchyroll, while Sony’s music segment saw revenue increase 21%. The PlayStation games unit had flat sales for the period and a 37% increase in operating income driven by U.S.
A CSIC team, working with spin-off Nanostine and backed by the European Space Agency, has developed a gold and silver nanoparticle coating that can stop the multipactor effect, which can cripple satellite communications systems.
Profit projects are up even as console sales are down
SEOUL, July 31 - South Korean military inspectors will visit an army corps on Friday to review an incident in which troops nearly shot down an unidentified aircraft near the border with North Korea before determining it was a U.S. drone taking part in a joint exercise, the
KUMAMOTO, Japan, July 31 - A powerful earthquake that struck southern Japan this week has exposed the vulnerability of the country's manufacturing supply chains, a decade after a devastating quake in the same region triggered widespread industry disruption.
Problems could persist for automakers, where parts shortages can snarl production far and wide.