British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper is the latest senior official in a steady stream of world leaders visiting China this year. During her three-day trip this week, Cooper is expected to meet her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi and Vice President Han Zheng in Beijing before travelling to the southern tech hub of Shenzhen for a…
In the last year, Israel averaged nearly two daily attacks on Syria and grabbed more land in the occupied Golan Heights. It has been one year since a lightning offensive by allied rebel groups led to the fall of Damascus, ending the al-Assad dynasty’s 54-year reign. Yet, as the regime collapsed, Israel seized on the…
Google argued against a Justice Department proposal that would bar it from bundling its YouTube and Google Maps apps with its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) service, telling a judge Wednesday (Oct. 8) that these haven’t been found to be monopoly products. The argument came during the court battle in which the judge is developing a…
A magnitude 6 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan just before midnight local time on Sunday, according to the United States Geological Survey. Several aftershocks followed. At least 800 people were killed and 2,500 were injured. The epicentre of the earthquake was at a depth of about 8km (5 miles), which seismologists…