After a strong run at the China Open, Coco Gauff’s campaign in Beijing came crashing down on Saturday. The second-seeded Gauff met third-seeded Amanda Anisimova in the semifinals and suffered one of her worst defeats of the season. Anisimova defeated Gauff in straight sets: 6-1, 6-2. Gauff’s rough showing was partially due to her ongoing…
Report by Cherly Abou Chabke, English adaptation by Karine Keuchkerian From the moment she landed in Beirut, Miss World 2025 Opal Suchata has been experiencing special moments in Lebanon. On Friday, she started her day with a seaside lunch in Jounieh, attended by Lebanon’s tourism minister. She then visited the Sursock Museum, where beauty met…
Typhoon Matmo expected to make landfall around noon tomorrow Hainan, Guangdong, Yunnan provinces potentially affected Disruption comes during busy period for holiday travel HONG KONG, Oct 4 — Chinese authorities will cancel flights and ferries in Hainan tonight before Typhoon Matmo hits the southern province, likely disrupting a peak holiday travel period for the resort…
Pakistani authorities reached a peace agreement on Saturday with a civil rights alliance, ending days of violent protests that left at least 10 people dead and bringing calm to Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Federal Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said the regional government had accepted all of the protesters’ demands. Under the deal, the regional government led by…
MILAN, Oct. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On October 3, the 2025 Reviving Craft – China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage and Contemporary Design exhibition and BOE O•SPACE opened at Palazzo Serbelloni in Milan, Italy. This is another international exhibition featuring a blend of technology and culture jointly launched by BOE and Sun Media Group, following their collaboration…
(Reuters) -China is providing intelligence to Russia to enable Moscow to better launch missile strikes inside Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian intelligence official was quoted as saying on Saturday. Oleh Alexandrov, an official with Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Agency, told the state Ukrinform news … Source link
Newly unveiled testimony has revealed that Elon Musk’s SpaceX took money directly from Chinese investors, despite its extremely close ties to the United States military. As ProPublica reports, major SpaceX investor Iqbaljit Kahlon said during a 2024 deposition that “they obviously have Chinese investors to be honest.” He said that some of these investors are…
Is there a better inkblot test for America right now than reaction to Bad Bunny being the halftime act for Super Bowl LX? Soon after his name was announced, social media exploded into meritocracy debates as if the National Football League’s decisions are culturally motivated and not commercially. Taylor Swift is the most streamed artist…
China has supplied Russia with satellite reconnaissance data used to guide missile strikes against targets in Ukraine, including facilities owned by foreign investors, according to Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SZR). In comments to Ukrinform on October 4, SZR representative Oleh Aleksandrov said Ukrainian intelligence had identified “facts of a high level of interaction between Russia and China in conducting satellite reconnaissance of Ukraine’s territory to determine and further…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Thousands gathered in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, on Saturday for the East African country’s thanksgiving festival, which is celebrated annually by the largest ethnic group, the Oromos, who were donning mostly white traditional attire. The Irreecha festival is held to thank God, whom the Oromos call Waaqa. Some still practice…