CHINESE CITIES can look like a tableau of bold colours as delivery drivers on scooters—some yellow, orange or blue—zip through traffic bearing cargo to waiting customers. It is in the distant outskirts that the colours come to a rest. Amid the warrens of buildings, drivers rent cheap rooms, parking their scooters in the narrow streets…
At the start of the U.S.-Iran war, officials in Oman raced to establish a back channel with Tehran that, according to Arab officials, helped Gulf states reopen flight corridors—a diplomatic coup made possible by Muscat’s staunch impartiality in the conflict. Muscat, the Oman capital. Three months later, that neutral stance is beginning to backfire. Washington…
HEFEI, China—In a giant testing lab filled with huge spikes, Volkswagen is putting one of the new cars it has designed especially for China through its paces. A Volkswagen electric vehicle at a testing facility in Hefei, China. But the biggest test is still to come: Will Chinese drivers want to buy them? The vehicles…
Taiwan on Tuesday recorded the presence of 8 PLAN vessels, 5 official ships and 7 sorties of PLA aircraft as per the Ministry of National Defence (MND). China’s claim over Taiwan is a complex issue rooted in historical, political, and legal arguments. (Representational Photo/REUTERS) It further noted that 7 of the 7 sorties entered Taiwan’s…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia attacked Ukraine with a barrage of missiles and drones overnight, killing at least 11 people, injuring dozens and trapping others, authorities said on Tuesday. Russia unleashed 73 missiles and 656 drones across Ukraine, according to the country’s air force, with the main targets including Kyiv, the central city of Dnipro,…
US President Donald Trump confronted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a heated phone call on Monday over Israel’s continuous bombardment of Lebanon, according to Axios, citing US officials and a source briefed on the call. During the call, Trump referred to Netanyahu as “crazy” and accused him of being ungrateful, the report said. (AP)…
June 1 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that warnings of a possible massive Russian strike on Ukraine remained in effect and urged residents to pay special attention to air raid alerts. “Intelligence warnings regarding Russian strikes remain in effect. A massive strike is possible, they have prepared one,” Zelenskiy said in his…
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery features compelling images from around the world published by The Associated Press in May. Protesters barricade the entrance gates outside the Delaney Hall detention on Wednesday, May 27, 2026, in Newark, N.J. Inside the facility, detainees carried out a labor and hunger strike…
The New York Times publisher on Monday slammed artificial intelligence companies for “brazen theft of intellectual property”, warning they threaten the future of journalism during a speech at the World News Media Congress in the French city of Marseille. Chairman of The New York Time Company and publisher of NYT Arthur Gregg Sulzberger gives a…
BRAZIL IS THE only country in the world where all elections are entirely electronic. To celebrate the system’s 30th anniversary in May, the country’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), which oversees general elections, launched a mascot, Pilili, a friendly-looking voting machine with big round eyes. Yet Pilili and the court’s extensive outreach to the public in…