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The US Supreme Court rejected on Monday a bid by a former Kentucky county official to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling legalising same-sex marriage nationwide, as the justices steered clear of the contentious case some 3-1/2 years after its conservative majority reversed abortion rights. The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, turned away an…
Recent moves by the United States – including President Donald Trump’s meeting with leaders of resource-rich Central Asian countries and the expansion of a US government critical minerals list – signal an urgency in Washington to reduce its reliance on rare earths from China before tensions with Beijing flare up again, analysts said. Despite China’s…
For years, the global race for artificial intelligence has been framed as a contest between Washington and Beijing. The United States commands the frontier models, cloud ecosystems and venture capital that shape global innovation; China, backed by scale, engineers and state coordination, is catching up fast. But the world’s next frontier for AI power will…
Hong Kong’s economic development and its global ties have emerged as the common concerns in the first Legislative Council election forum organised by the biggest local political party. The Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) on Monday hosted all 50 candidates running for 40 Legco seats in the Election Committee…
Last September, in the shadow of escalating global crises—from the grinding stalemate in Ukraine to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza—the United Nations convened another General Assembly. Gathered in New York, world leaders delivered speeches —some fierce, some emotional —on peace, human rights and sustainable development. This is the UN in 2025: a body struggling to…
At least eight people were killed on Monday in a car explosion near the historic Red Fort in a densely populated area of the Indian capital New Delhi, a police spokesman said, a rare blast in the heavily guarded city of more than 30 million people. The exact cause of the blast is being investigated,…
Now that the Chinese navy’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, has entered service there could be a change in the power balance in the western Pacific, the South China Sea and even the Indian Ocean, according to experts. The Fujian – China’s third aircraft carrier – was commissioned last Wednesday in Sanya, Hainan province,…
This year the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) inaugurated a naval task force fleet command at the Jeju Naval Base. With growing emphasis on intelligence gathering and missile defense capabilities, the strategically vital island of Jeju is a prime location for the ROKN’s task force command. Enhancing naval movements in the wider seas to protect…
US forces have killed six more people in strikes on alleged drug-running boats, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Monday, bringing the campaign’s total number of deaths – which critics describe as illegal executions – to 76. Hegseth, in a post on X, said the United States had carried out the strikes on Sunday…
China must hardwire long-term scientific endurance into its national strategy if it intends to shape the future of space discovery, a Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist has suggested. Reinhard Genzel, a German astrophysicist,was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of the Milky Way. Before that,…
