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Indonesia’s telling empty chair on the South China Sea

The most significant development at this week’s Conference Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the South China Sea Arbitration Award in Jakarta was not what was discussed. It was who failed to appear. Every Indonesian government representative scheduled to participate

Asia

New Zealand, Fiji renew five-year partnership

WELLINGTON, July 16 - New Zealand and Fiji signed a renewed five-year Duavata Partnership on Thursday, setting out cooperation priorities for 2026 to 2030 across trade, security, democracy, social development and climate resilience, New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters

Asia

US bid for Libya reunification a gamble, analysts say

US envoy Massad Boulos has spent the past year shuttling between Libya's rival leaders to bridge their political divide. Authorities in Tripoli and the UN mission in Libya, which has spent months leading political talks to resolve the divide, did not respond to AFP requests for

Saving Gaza's past, one artefact at a time

Armed with paintbrushes and wearing surgical gloves, volunteers inside a large tent in Gaza delicately brushed dust from a stone mosaic before placing it into storage, part of an effort to preserve cultural heritage hit by war. "Several mosaic artworks have been lost or

Lana Del Rey Shares Update On Stove… And Companion Album?!

Lana Del Rey has been frequently teasing and pushing back her follow-up to 2023's Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd for more than two years now. When she first announced it at a Grammys party in 2024, it was called Lasso and billed as a country album. Since

Music

What science loses when T. rex becomes a trophy

On July 14, 2026, "Gus," one of the most complete specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex, went to an as-yet-unidentified buyer for $50.1 million. This auction at Sotheby's set a record for the most valuable fossil ever sold. Another dinosaur has entered the luxury collectibles market,

Bus accident kills six in China's Sichuan

BEIJING, July 16 - A bus plunged into a river after colliding with a road guardrail on Wednesday, killing six people and injuring 11 in China's southwestern Sichuan province, local authorities said in a notice on Thursday.

Asia

Mallory Hawk – “Four O’Clocks”

Former Customer frontwoman Mallory Hawk's debut solo album Chinook is named after the military helicopters that dotted the skies around her childhood hometown. That town factors directly into "Four O'Clocks," the pensive and pretty new single she released today. Let Hawk

Music

Donald Trump is running out of options in Iran

Serious hostilities between the US and Iran have resumed. On July 8, Donald Trump said that the ceasefire agreed to by the two countries in June was “over.” Since then, he has ordered the US military to carry out intensive airstrikes on Iran and has reimposed an economic

Asia

5 standout moments from the Hill Nation Summit

Lawmakers and Trump administration officials took to the stage at the second Hill Nation Summit on Wednesday in Washington, meeting with reporters at The Hill and NewsNation to talk about the news of the day. The event was a bipartisan gathering where lawmakers and officials

Trump's big risks in returning to all-out war

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