As a fragile, two-week ceasefire holds between the United States and Iran, diplomacy is not just unfolding at negotiating tables — it is also playing out online, with Iranian missions across the globe responding to Washington’s pressure with humour. Strait of Hormuz is one of the world’s most strategically vital maritime chokepoints, serving as the…
April 10, 2026, 8:15 a.m. ET As Ursula from “The Little Mermaid” once said: “Don’t underestimate the importance of body language.” The cartoon sea witch may not have been a dating expert. But according to real relationship specialists, she’s not wrong. Before the advent of dating apps, the only body language daters had to worry…
MOSCOW, April 10 (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Friday that a visit to the United States by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special investment envoy did not mean that negotiations on a possible peace deal in Ukraine had resumed. Reuters reported on Thursday, citing sources with knowledge of the visit, that Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s envoy,…
The U.S. Federal Reserve has a dual mandate. It aims to keep the inflation rate steady at around 2% per year, as measured by the core Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCE), and to keep the economy running at full employment, although policymakers don’t have a specific target for the unemployment rate. The Fed will…
Paolo Di Canio has thrown his weight behind a move for Sandro Tonali to Inter Milan, declaring the Newcastle United midfielder Italy’s best player of movement by some distance and questioning why he is playing for a mid-table Premier League club. Speaking to Corriere della Sera in a characteristically forthright interview, Di Canio covered the…
Hong Kong’s smoking rate fell to 8.5 per cent last year, missing an ambitious target of 7.8 per cent, but health authorities have hailed the success of the city’s tobacco control strategy, which led to a 30 per cent decline in overall cigarette consumption. Secretary for Health Lo Chung-mau told a Legislative Council meeting on…
Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk has touted that his tunneling startup, The Boring Company, can build a tunnel from Los Angeles to San Francisco that can exceed high-speed rail. On Wednesday, Musk took to the social media platform X to express his criticism of Governor Gavin Newsom‘s (D-CA) High Speed Rail project from Los Angeles…
April 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has discussed with his advisers the option of removing some U.S. troops from Europe, a senior White House official told Reuters on Thursday. The internal deliberations come after Trump expressed his discontent with what he sees as NATO allies’ lack of action to help secure the Strait…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Taiwan opposition leader Cheng Li-wun that “people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese” and that the future of cross-strait ties should be decided by “the Chinese people themselves”. Cheng, the chairperson of Taiwan’s largest opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), is visiting China on what she has described…
A young woman slowly adds Chinese dates to hot water, then stirs in rose petals, goji berries and a slice of lemon, creating a hot and healthy drink inspired by Chinese traditions. “My morning routine since I became Chinese,” says this TikTok fan from Frankfurt, Germany. She hopes her recipe will inspire others to “become…