The meeting in Tianjin between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping, their first in seven years, carries significance far beyond protocol. It took place just as Donald Trump’s expanding tariff program, which began in April and has steadily
U.S. President Donald Trump says he'll punish Russia if Moscow doesn't agree to peace talks with Ukraine. Yet, he hasn't pushed the button, so far.
By Nayera Abdallah (Reuters) -Thousands of mourners attended a funeral at the largest mosque in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Monday for 12 senior Houthi figures, including their prime minister, who were killed by an Israeli strike. Last Thursday's attack, the first to kill top
By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel pushed tanks deeper into Gaza City and detonated explosives-laden vehicles in one suburb as airstrikes killed at least 19 people on Monday, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. Reports of the offensive came as the president of
New U.S. guidelines would temporarily block visas for Palestinians worldwide and in the West Bank who only hold a Palestinian passport. The ban would affect visas for medical treatment, business, university studies and visits to friends or relatives
More than 250 media outlets in over 70 countries staged a front page protest Monday highlighting the deaths of scores of journalists in Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, the Reporters Without Borders media freedom group said. "At the rate journalists are being killed in Gaza
For about two months, Luke, Suzanne, Nora, John and Aran have sailed the Aegean and Ionian to inform locals, visitors and tourism operators about the threats monk seals are facing.
Stardew Valley fans have just had a massive update news from developer Eric Barone, but don't rush to create a new farm just yet
Speaking in an interview on Sunday with German public broadcaster ZDF, Merz said he has not lost hope about the ceasefire or peace talks but “harbours no illusions".
Team Cherry's much-anticipated indie game will cost $20, but it's not a midnight drop
Zar Amir, the French-Iranian star of Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider,” will be honored at New York’s Metrograph Theater with a special tribute including a screening of the Oscar-qualifying short film “Two People Exchanging Saliva.” Amir stars alongside Luàna Bajrami (“Portrait of a
AI and LLMs pose a particularly visceral threat to the typing class. Writers, editors, poets, freelancers, marketing copywriters and others are voicing reasonable (and unreasonable) objections to the pace and impact of tools like Claude, Kimi and ChatGPT. I think we have two
As it celebrates the 80th anniversary of Japanese surrender, China is trying to recast wartime history by downplaying U.S. help while emphasizing Moscow’s role.
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday that Ankara was working to find a fair and lasting end to the war in Ukraine and that talks between the parties in Istanbul were contributing to peace efforts, Turkey's
Most of these little-known but already endangered fish have never been seen alive in their natural habitat, but are under threat from bottom trawling and deep-sea mining Three years ago I was running a research project from a bottom trawler off Namibia about deep-sea sharks –
As the founding myth has it, the city of Rome was established by a man named Romulus, one of two orphaned twin brothers raised by a she-wolf on the banks of the Tiber river. The legend of Romulus and Remus, which involves the former’s fratricidal slaying of the latter, lends
Kenya’s anti-government protests have inspired a new generation of artists, who have championed the cause through music and murals, graffiti and spoken word.
Set in 1980s Mexico, the ‘Narcos: Mexico’ actress’ feature directing debut, follows a girl, 8, who sees her family of seven women fight to save their home from mounting debt.
Despite a long history of coups, no Brazilian general or politician has ever been tried in a courtroom for subverting the will of the people. Until this week.
As Czech elections approach, disinformation has reached historic highs in the country, according to a study.
A giant straw and bamboo snake over 80 metres long was paraded through a Japanese village on Sunday as part of a festival first held in 1988.
Protests in 30 towns and cities across Indonesia have rocked the nation, underscoring frustration and anger among the working class toward the ruling elite amid a mounting economic crisis. Since August 25, at least six people have been killed, hundreds injured and over 1,200
Two political rivals go head-to-head for the third time in the hotly contested 16 September poll.
Saturn’s moon Titan may be more alive with possibilities than we thought. New NASA research suggests that in Titan’s freezing methane and ethane lakes, simple molecules could naturally arrange themselves into vesicles—tiny bubble-like structures that mimic the first steps
THE HAGUE (Reuters) -The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday. Eighty-six percent of those who voted among the
The Russian president also defended his decision to invade Ukraine, once again blaming the war on the West.
Some Cambodian families are cautiously returning after weeks of clashes along the Thailand border, but uncertainty remains.
A fringe far-right movement has long existed, with anti-immigrant sentiment typically rising during economic uncertainty.
