With a $20million budget, the most high-profile of A-list guests and the backdrop of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez was one of the most highly anticipated events of the year. But now that the sun has finally set on the three-day extravaganza –…
Chinese President Xi Jinping held separate bilateral meetings with the leaders of Ecuador and Senegal on Friday in what appears to be a concerted effort by Beijing to maintain strong ties with Global South countries, even as major power diplomacy increasingly dominates Beijing’s foreign policy agenda. These are the kind of high-level engagements with African…
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The total number of party cadres reached 100.27 million at the end of 2024, an increase of 1.1 per cent from a year earlier, according to statistics released by the CCP’s Organization Department ahead of the ruling party’s 104th anniversary on July 1. Last Updated : 30 June 2025, 10:20 IST Source link
Opening summary: Senate wrangles over Trump’s ‘one big beautiful bill’ to continue Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of US politics with senators scheduled to start voting on a potentially long list of amendments to Donald Trump’s “one big beautiful bill” beginning at 9 am EDT. Yesterday, Republicans in the Senate Republicans pushed…
Last Updated:June 30, 2025, 15:05 IST As Xi’s ideological control weakens, intelligence sources highlight that Wang Yang is being groomed as a reform-oriented future leader and technocrat. China President Xi Jinping | Image/Reuters Chinese President Xi Jinping’s unusual disappearance from public view between May 21 and June 5 this year has sparked intense speculation about…
Birthday wishes go out to Mike Tyson, David Alan Grier and all the other celebrities with birthdays today. Check out our slideshow below to see photos of famous people turning a year older on June 30 and learn an interesting fact about each of them. Top celebrity birthdays on June 30, 2025 David Alan Grier…
As Squid Game concludes its run with a gripping third season, the dystopian drama continues to echo real-world dynamics. Series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk recently drew attention to how the show’s elite VIP characters reflect modern power structures—pointing specifically to one prominent figure. Squid Game creator has said that the VIPs in the show resemble the…
By Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China. Brendan joined Newsweek in 2018 from the International Business Times and well as English, knows Russian and French. You can…
Since he came to power in late 2012, one of Xi Jinping’s core objectives internationally has been to stage a revolution in perceptions of China abroad — notching up victories in what he characterized early in his first term as a global “public opinion struggle” (舆论斗争). This project, centering on the concept of “telling China’s…