Japan as a nuclear power, Chinas first female C919 captain: 5 weekend reads

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was sending a hospital boat to Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory that he has long coveted and threatened to seize by force. Trump’s rhetoric has ratcheted up tensions between the United States and Denmark, while putting the global spotlight on the Arctic as he insists mineral-rich Greenland…

Watching European capitals scramble to calibrate their response to the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran, one is reminded of a recurring scene in a very bad play — one that has run, with minor variations, since Suez. Europe blusters. Europe convenes. Europe issues a communique. And then Europe does nothing. The pattern is so familiar…

Two monks have clashed during a religious ceremony at a historical Buddhist monastery in Hong Kong, leaving one injured and the other in police custody. Police officers were called to Chuk Lam Sim Yuen in Tsuen Wan at around 9.40am on Saturday after a report about a fight involving two monks, a force spokesman said….

Crowds filled Hong Kong’s airport and a major cross-border rail terminal on the first day of the Lunar New Year, with many visitors saying they chose to spend the holiday in the city to enjoy its festive spirit, food and mild weather. According to the latest Immigration Department data, more than 1.7 million Hongkongers made…

“We want someone that will bring harmony and peace to Iran,” he told Axios on Thursday, adding that he thought the Ayatollah’s son Mojtaba Khamenei was a “lightweight”. “I have to be involved in the appointment, like with Delcy,” he said, referring to Venezuela’s interim president Delcy Rodríguez, whom he named after US forces kidnapped…

Israel and Hamas are blaming the other for failing to keep Gaza Strip ceasefire agreements negotiated by US President Donald Trump, putting both the flow of humanitarian aid as well as the relative calm in the enclave at risk. The disputes are coming as no surprise to observers who have begun to parse details of…