Britain’s new Prime Minister Andy Burnham “will always put Britain’s interests first”, he said in an interview when asked whether he was willing to call out US President Donald Trump. Burnham’s predecessor Keir Starmer, who announced he was stepping down last month, had a fraught relationship with Trump due to differences over the US-Israeli war on Iran, immigration, energy and tech regulation.
While Trump initially described Starmer’s successor as “extremely liberal”, he said this week he had
State media reported 17 Vietnamese crew members were missing after Saturday night’s accident near Fiery Cross Reef
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China’s biggest technology companies gave a US congressional delegation the cold shoulder during a recent visit.
Analysts said this decision – which denied the visitors a rare insider’s view of one of the world’s fastest-moving artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystems – reflected Beijing’s increasingly selective approach to AI diplomacy.
It also highlights a paradox: while the two powers continue to pursue dialogue on AI safety, many of the channels that once helped them understand each other are steadily narrowing.
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Minutes after a Berlin court sentenced a Chinese man to five years in prison for aiding and abetting aggravated rape and sexual coercion, two women who had sat through the trial hugged each other and cried.
But the case left one of those women, named Kristina, balancing mixed emotions as she struggled to reconcile her desire to see the perpetrators punished and questions about what justice really meant in a case of this nature.
The 32-year-old accused, who was studying medicine, was jailed for five years earlier this
When Hongkonger Tara Fung brought her eight-month-old Munchkin cat, Yuen Yuen, to a clinic to get spayed in March 2025, she was told two hours later that her pet had died from an allergic reaction to a sedative.
“Who would have thought she would go in and never come out … I never got to see her again,” she told the South China Morning Post.
Fung pressed the clinic for explanations and surveillance footage but said she did not receive a proper reply.
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An impending ‘super’ El Nino is likely to inflict a combined US$10 billion to US$20 billion of damage in affected African countries and trigger mass migration from hard-hit areas, the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) top climate expert said.
Forecasters are warning that the El Nino weather pattern – which often drives severe droughts, flooding and storms in Africa – could turn into one of the strongest ever seen if current Pacific Ocean warming trends continue. As well as the threat
Residents of the Northern Metropolis, Hong Kong’s future mega township near the border with Shenzhen, can expect bigger living spaces and improved access to recreational areas, according to the city’s finance chief.
Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po also said the government would make the border town a place “suitable for living, working, studying and leisure”, as part of a wider effort to develop Hong Kong as a “liveable city”.
In his weekly blog post on Sunday, Chan added that the Northern
