Chinese state media is warning U.S. President Donald Trump to wade carefully into the Iran-Israel conflict, writing in a new editorial that stoked tensions could trigger an aftermath that makes the previous Iraq and Afghanistan wars pale in comparison. Why It Matters White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that Trump, who has called…
China will mobilise the country’s resources to spur advances in the theory and core technologies of artificial intelligence, President Xi Jinping has told the Communist Party’s inner circle. Addressing a Politburo study session on Friday, Xi said China would leverage its “new whole national system” to target bottlenecks such as high-end chips, state media reported…
At least 30 people are missing after a landslide in southwestern China on Saturday, according to state media. The landslide occurred in the village of Jinping in Sichuan province at around 11.50am, burying at least 10 houses, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The village is part of the city of Yibin. Emergency workers pulled two people…
Nine people were killed in a fire at a cold storage on Saturday in China’s eastern province of Shandong, state media reported. Thermal insulation materials caught on fire at the under-construction cold chain storage facility in the city of Rongcheng around midday on Saturday, state broadcaster CCTV said. The nine deaths at the site were…
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government troops battled insurgents inside the country’s largest city Aleppo for the first time since 2016, while warplanes targeted rebel supply lines on the city’s edge, state media reported Saturday. Insurgents broke through government defense lines in Aleppo on Friday and entered the city’s western neighborhood with little resistance. The insurgents…
A woman in China died after undergoing six cosmetic surgeries within 24 hours, sparking a lawsuit by her family against the clinic involved seeking 1.2 million yuan (US$168,000). On December 9, 2020, the woman, surnamed Liu, from a rural area in Guigang, Guangxi province, southern China, visited a clinic in Nanning, where she took out…
BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s home sales rose during the National Day holiday after a string of property stimulus measures to boost the country’s beleaguered real estate market since late September, state media said on Saturday. Across the world’s second-largest economy, policies including reductions in down-payment ratios and mortgage rates have been introduced this year to support…