United States President Donald Trump has announced that he will allow 600,000 Chinese students into US universities. His announcement on Monday, which marks a sharp departure from the Trump administration’s crackdown on Chinese students launched earlier this year, has caught his conservative base off guard. Here is more about what Trump is saying now, in…
The administration of President Donald Trump has announced it plans to take control of Union Station, a major transportation hub in the United States capital of Washington, DC. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy delivered the announcement on Wednesday, as he stood with leaders from the rail company Amtrak to unveil a new fleet of faster Acela…
LONDON — Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain’s hard-right Reform UK party, said Tuesday that if he wins the next election he will leave the European Convention on Human Rights and immediately detain and deport anyone who arrives in the country illegally, including children. Farage laid out his plans following a significant rise in migrants who arrive…
The authorities in Hong Kong have refused to extend the employment visa of a Bloomberg journalist, effectively expelling her from the Chinese territory where she has lived and worked for six years. Rebecca Choong Wilkins, a reporter on the financial newswire’s Asia government and politics team, was applying for a routine visa renewal when she…
The embassy, which would be situated near the Tower of London, would be the largest in Europe. The British government has extended the deadline to October to decide on whether to approve China‘s plans to build the largest embassy in Europe in London, after Beijing refused to explain why the plans contained blacked-out areas. China’s…
The United States Department of Justice has released transcripts of a recent interview between Ghislaine Maxwell, the former partner of child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein, and one of its top officials. Their meeting was arranged in July as the administration of President Donald Trump struggled to tamp down scrutiny over his past ties to Epstein….
A federal judge has ruled that lawyer Alina Habba was unlawfully appointed to the role of acting United States attorney for the District of New Jersey Thursday’s decision from District Judge Matthew Brann was a rebuke to the administration of President Donald Trump, who has sought to keep Habba, his former personal lawyer, in the…
New Zealand’s spy service warned Thursday that China is the most active power engaging in foreign interference in the country, sparking a sharp rebuke from Beijing. New Zealand faces the “most challenging national security environment of recent times”, the country’s intelligence agency said in an annual risk assessment. Key drivers of the deteriorating threat environment…
A couple involved in the Hong Kong government’s water scandal have been arrested again for breaching the Trade Descriptions Ordinance, days after being charged with fraud over the bottle water procurement. The Customs and Excise Department on Wednesday said it arrested a company director, 61, and a 57-year-old female shareholder earlier in the day and…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and top European leaders met with United States President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday to discuss plans to bring an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Trump convened the meeting after last week’s three-hour summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, where Putin rejected the idea of…