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French President Emmanuel Macron likes to say that he can get US President Donald Trump on the phone any time he wants. In New York for the UN General Assembly, he proved it. Blocked on Monday night by police officers when he sought to cross a New York street – they told the French president…
The policy change, which initially appeared vague on who was responsible for paying the fee, prompted H-1B visa holders Selena Tang and her husband to skip their planned Chinese wedding on Tuesday in Wuxi, in eastern Jiangsu province. When the news came, it was like “a bolt out of the blue”, Seattle-based Tang said. She…
There can now be little doubt that the world leader who is most pleased that Donald Trump is in the White House again, apart from Trump himself, is President Xi Jinping. Certainly he did nothing to hide his happiness at therecent summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Tianjinand then at his own military parade…
The Trump administration has barred Iranian diplomats based in or visiting New York from shopping at wholesale club shops such as Costco and buying luxury goods in the United States without specific permission from the State Department. In notices to be published this week in the Federal Register, the department’s Office of Foreign Missions determined…
A number of charities on Monday severed ties with Sarah Ferguson, the ex-wife of Prince Andrew, after British newspapers published an email that she reportedly wrote to the late convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, describing him as a “supreme friend”. Julia’s House, a children’s hospice, said the reported correspondence made it inappropriate for…
Inmates in Ecuador fought each other with guns and explosives in a riot that left 13 prisoners and a guard dead, police said. The mayhem was the latest in a series of bloodbaths to engulf gang-ridden, overcrowded prisons in a once peaceful country now at ground zero of the violent Latin American drug trade. An…
Hamas’ armed wing released a video on Monday showing an Israeli-German hostage alive, the second such footage of him shared by the militants this month. The Israeli campaign group Hostages and Missing Families Forum identified the captive as Alon Ohel, who was abducted by Palestinian militants during their October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. The…
A mother has been arrested for negligence after her four-year-old girl died from an apparent fall from a flat at a Hong Kong housing estate. Emergency services were alerted at 6.15pm on Monday by a man who saw the unconscious child lying outside Hong Wo House at Wo Che Estate in Sha Tin. Authorities believed…
Chinese Defence Minister Dong Jun has urged members of the US Congress to take “constructive and pragmatic measures” to improve relations between the two militaries. A bipartisan delegation met Dong and Vice-Premier He Lifeng on Monday, a day after they met Premier Li Qiang in Beijing. “I hope you members of Congress can exclude disruptive…
The United Nations’ latest Global Innovation Index shows more than just a shift in rankings; it’s a strategic wake-up call. For the first time, China broke into the top 10 most innovative nations, displacing Germany, Europe’s industrial titan. This achievement, fuelled by massive government and corporate investment in research and development, is a testament to…
