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Hong Kong to sentence media mogul Jimmy Lai in national security trial
AFP, Published on 09/02/2026
» HONG KONG - Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai will be sentenced on Monday over national security crimes that could see him jailed for life, with some rights groups and Western nations still demanding his release.
China, US to lift sweeping tariffs in trade war climbdown
AFP, Published on 14/05/2025
» BEIJING — The United States and China will lift sweeping tariffs on each others' goods for 90 days on Wednesday, after a temporary ceasefire in a brutal trade war that roiled global markets and international supply chains.
Republicans’ impeachment probe dismissed as ‘stunt’
AFP, Published on 28/09/2023
» WASHINGTON - US Republicans launch impeachment inquiry hearings into Joe Biden on Thursday, escalating an eight-month corruption investigation that has failed to uncover evidence of wrongdoing by the president.
Global alarm grows over China's Covid surge
AFP, Published on 29/12/2022
» BEIJING: The United States is the latest in a growing number of countries to impose restrictions on visitors from China after Beijing abruptly removed a major impediment to overseas travel despite surging Covid cases at home.
Germany's Scholz arrives in China to boost economic ties
AFP, Published on 04/11/2022
» BEIJING: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Beijing Friday seeking to bolster a vital economic relationship but facing criticism about his country's heavy reliance on a nation growing more authoritarian under Xi Jinping.
Leader Pogacar 'scared' for Tour after Covid-hit eighth stage
AFP, Published on 10/07/2022
» LAUSANNE: Champion Tadej Pogacar said on Saturday he fears Covid-19 could wreak havoc on this year's Tour de France after the Slovenian tightened his grip on the leader's yellow jersey after stage eight.
China vows 'fight to the end' to stop Taiwan independence
AFP, Published on 12/06/2022
» SINGAPORE: China will "fight to the very end" to stop Taiwanese independence, the country's defence minister vowed Sunday, stoking already soaring tensions with the United States over the island.
Man arrested after smearing Mona Lisa with cake at Louvre
AFP, Published on 30/05/2022
» PARIS: A 36-year-old man has been arrested and placed in psychiatric care after he smeared a glass screen encasing the Mona Lisa with cake, prosecutors said Monday, in a purported protest against artists not focusing enough on "the planet".
Elderly Hong Kong cardinal in court over protest defence fund
AFP, Published on 24/05/2022
» HONG KONG: Ninety-year-old retired Catholic cardinal Joseph Zen appeared in a Hong Kong court Tuesday charged with failing to properly register a protest defence fund, after he was initially arrested under the city's national security law.
Chile's last Yaghan speaker dies aged 93
AFP, Published on 17/02/2022
» SANTIAGO - Cristina Calderon, the last native speaker of Chile's indigenous Yaghan language, has died at the age of 93, her family said Wednesday, in a blow for a dwindling culture at South America's extreme southern tip.