The annual Hong Kong Wine and Dine Festival in late October will see the return of a designated area for premium wine and a pop-up restaurant with Michelin-star chefs for the first time in seven years. This year’s event, organised by the Hong Kong Tourism Board, will also be extended by an hour to midnight…
Hong Kong is seeking to establish a cross-border individual travel scheme for yachts, with discussions under way with Guangzhou counterparts to ease maritime travel for private vessels as part of a wider effort to create a high-end “yacht economy”. Transport and logistics chief Mable Chan told a legislative panel on Monday that the Marine Department…
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday that snapback sanctions have no legal standing and called on countries to ignore the newly imposed measures. Why It Matters Backed by the United States, Britain, France and Germany (E3) formally launched a 30-day process in August to reimpose United Nations sanctions on Iran, citing Tehran’s violations of the 2015…
PARIS (AP) — Two women died Saturday morning while trying to cross the English Channel from France to the U.K. on board a makeshift boat carrying other migrants, French authorities said. Rescuers found the women in cardiac arrest but couldn’t save them, the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais region, in northern France, said in a statement….
new video loaded: What Does Nicolas Sarkozy’s Conviction Mean? Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France from 2007 to 2012, was found guilty on Thursday of plotting to finance his 2007 election bid with help from the government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. Aurelien Breeden, a reporter for The New York Times covering France, explains what led to…
A court in Paris on Thursday found Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France, guilty of a criminal conspiracy to illegally finance his 2007 campaign with funds from the government of the onetime Libyan strongman Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi. But Mr. Sarkozy, a conservative politician who led France from 2007 to 2012, was acquitted by the court…
New Delhi: The United States along with the United Kingdom and France have for now thwarted a joint bid by Pakistan and China to proscribe the Balochistan Liberation Army and the Majeed Brigade under the UN 1267 terror sanctions regime, putting a technical hold on the proposal citing insufficient evidence to link the outfits to…
Published on: Sept 19, 2025 03:28 am IST France and Britain are among several Western countries that have pledged to formally recognise a Palestinian state this month at UNGA. French President Emmanuel Macron insisted Thursday that recognising a Palestinian state would isolate the militant group Hamas and reiterated his condemnation of Israel’s devastating offensive in…
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said it was important to make a migrant returns deal with France work, in order to control the number of those arriving, as U.S. President Donald Trump urged him to use military force if necessary. “You have people coming in, and I told the Prime Minister I would stop it,”…
STORY: France has warned it may try to block some crypto firms licensed in other EU countries from operating domestically. The head of its financial watchdog told Reuters that it wants oversight transferred to the bloc’s central securities regulator. The watchdog, known as the AMF, is concerned that crypto companies are seeking out jurisdictions with…