The United States’ biggest strategic adversaries quickly condemned President Trump’s decision to order U.S. strikes on Venezuela and the raid to capture now-former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. China, Russia and Iran all called it a violation of Venezuela’s sovereignty and international law. Cuba, just south of the U.S. and a close ally of Caracas, also…
Hong Kong-based travellers seeking to visit the US without a visa were left in a state of disarray last week when the country’s government proposed requiring tourists to hand over up to five years of social media information as part of strengthened entry requirements. The proposal, a continuation of US President Donald Trump’s expanded scrutiny…
Ron Curtis, an English professor in Montreal, lived for 40 years with a degenerative spinal disease, in what he called the “black hole” of chronic pain. On a July day in 2022, Mr. Curtis, 64, ate a last bowl of vegetable soup made by his wife, Lori, and, with the help of a palliative care…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! U.S. health officials have issued travel advisories for Americans planning trips to certain tropical countries amid outbreaks of an untreatable mosquito-borne disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Friday that it has issued Level 2 travel advisories for Cuba, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Guangdong…
The fight against a Florida law restricting property purchases by Chinese citizens may hinge on finding new challengers – and on persuading a conservative judiciary unlikely to reverse course, legal experts say. In a 2-1 decision on Tuesday, the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta upheld two provisions of the 2023 law –…
Home » Australia Travel News » Azerbaijan Joins Cuba, France, China, Indonesia, United Kingdom, Tajikistan And More As Australia Issues New Travel Advisory Amid Increased Global Uncertainty Published on November 4, 2025 In the midst of increasing global unpredictability, Australia has released a new travel advisory, adding a number of nations to the list of…
A decade ago, Hong Kong psychiatrist Dr Ivan Mak visited Cuba. There, he took numerous photos of the locals, from children mischievously grinning at the camera to ordinary people sitting outside their homes, whiling away their time. These photos became the backbone of his first travel photo book, Souvenirs for the Soul – A Hong…
Assata Shakur, a Black Liberation Army member who was convicted of murdering a state trooper in 1973 and lived in Cuba for decades, has died, authorities said Friday. Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, died in Havana “due to health conditions and advanced age” on Thursday, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a…
Hong Kong will launch a trial scheme allowing semi-private schools to apply for expanded enrolment of overseas students in a bid to open the city’s primary and secondary education market. The government will also increase the enrolment ceiling for self-financing non-local students at public universities from 40 to 50 per cent of its local undergraduate…
Hong Kong will be able to contribute more to dispute resolution efforts as courts in the Greater Bay Area will refer cases requiring mediation to locally based organisations after a global body was set up in the city, a delegate to the nation’s top legislative body has said. Starry Lee Wai-king, the city’s sole member…