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On-trade experts are on a mission to help Hong Kong regain its reputation as a city that never sleeps. Rebecca Lo finds out how nightcaps are gaining ground. On any given Friday evening the bar area outside three Michelin-starred 8 ½ Otto e Mezzo Bombana is packed with happy hour drinkers. Within chef Umberto Bombana’s…
How communities are celebrating Juneteenth How communities are celebrating Juneteenth 03:49 People across the country are coming together today in honor of Juneteenth, a federal holiday that marks the end of slavery in the United States after the Civil War. Also called Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, Juneteenth falls annually on June 19, the date…
By Shane Croucher is a Breaking News Editor based in London, UK. He has previously overseen the My Turn, Fact Check and News teams, and was a Senior Reporter before that, mostly covering U.S. news and politics. Shane joined Newsweek in February 2018 from IBT UK where he held various editorial roles covering different beats,…
In a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for an end to the fighting between Israel and Iran, urging the countries, “especially Israel”, to cease fire to prevent the situation from escalating and avoid a spillover of the conflict. The phone conversation came days after Israel initiated a…
Jun 19, 2025 01:35 PM IST India plans to send the black box from the recent Air India plane crash to the U.S. for analysis, as damage from a post-crash fire makes data extraction impossible locally. The crash resulted in 241 fatalities and is being investigated by various agencies, including the NTSB, while India’s Aircraft…
STORY: :: Eyewitness video captures the moment SpaceX’s Starship 36 explodes on the test stand :: TheRocketFuture via X :: June 18, 2025 :: Brownsville, Texas :: SpaceX posted on X that the Starship ‘experienced a major anomaly’ SpaceX posted on X that “on June 18 at approximately 11 p.m. CT (0400 GMT on June…
China has been accused of “misleading” New Zealand—a United States security ally in the South Pacific—regarding its test of an unarmed but nuclear-capable long-range missile in 2024. In a statement to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Chinese Foreign Ministry denied that Beijing had mischaracterized the test, claiming it was part of the military’s routine annual training…
A 35-year-old Hong Kong clerk who cut and stabbed his father more than 80 times in the family home following an argument has maintained that he was not at fault for killing him because he was mentally unstable. Lee Man-lok pleaded guilty at the High Court on Thursday to manslaughter on the basis of diminished…
June 19, 2025, marks the fourth consecutive year that Juneteenth is a federally recognized United States holiday. Also known as Freedom Day, Emancipation Day or America’s second Independence Day, Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. after the Civil War. Many Americans have celebrated it annually for more than a century, even though the…
By Alessandro Parodi and Victoria Waldersee (Reuters) -The world’s largest car-carrying ship – with the equivalent of 20 football fields of vehicles – completed its maiden journey late last month to dock in Brazil’s Itajai port. But not everyone is cheering its arrival. BYD, China’s top producer of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, is offering…