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Burnham's meeting with Merz comes amid increasing warnings of hybrid threats in Europe and follows a drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport in August - which Berlin has accused Russia of orchestrating.
Burnham's meeting with Merz comes amid increasing warnings of hybrid threats in Europe and follows a drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport in August - which Berlin has accused Russia of orchestrating.
Israel’s foul-smelling weapon turns Palestinian repression into a sales pitch.
Musk has claimed unnamed entities are blocking Starlink's launch to maintain their monopoly.
A lawyer says the murderer of Colleen Slemmer is moving around her hospital room after surviving two lethal injections.
A lawyer says the murderer of Colleen Slemmer is moving around her hospital room after surviving two lethal injections.
A legal challenge to the vice-presidency of Indonesia’s Gibran Rakabuming Raka could haunt his political future even though he has survived damning court findings on his educational qualifications. The Constitutional Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition to unseat the son of former president Joko Widodo, ruling that the plaintiffs lacked legal standing. But it also found no convincing evidence tha...
Exuberance among cornerstone investors in Hong Kong’s booming initial public offering (IPO) market seems to be fading, forcing some issuers that had hoped to list this month to postpone their offerings. With more than 60 per cent of new listings in the third quarter now trading below their issue prices, cornerstone investors – who typically receive guaranteed allocations in exchange for holding sh...
Hong Kong police have recovered about HK$30 million worth of stolen gold and arrested two men in connection with an elaborate hotel-room swap in which 30kg of gold granules were replaced with eight bottles of fabric softener. The force said it received a report early on Wednesday from a mainland Chinese man who said about 30kg of gold granules, valued at roughly HK$30 million (US$3.8 million), wer...
A shortage of combat-ready troops has plagued Ukraine ever since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022
US scientist Karl Deisseroth had a memorable way of sharing the news that he had won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. In images released by Stanford University, Deisseroth can be seen telling his two daughters and his son about the award.
Nine out of 10 people felt motivated to act after watching film outlining threats to food security, economy and public healthThe British government must be honest about the scale of the threat posed by climate and nature breakdown, researchers have said, after nine out of 10 people surveyed after watching a briefing on the issue felt more motivated to act.Last November, in the “first-of-its-kind n...
Chinese scientists have created a wearable all-in-one device combining a glucose sensor and insulin micropump that they say paves the way for a fully autonomous mini artificial pancreas, although it has so far only been tested on mice. Unlike existing commercial systems for managing diabetes that typically require patients to wear two separate patches for monitoring and hormone delivery, the new p...
A gold statue depicting Donald Trump fully naked and crushing a smaller man’s shoulders has been unveiled in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, France.
Protesters gathered in Izmir after Mayor Cemil Tugay joined President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party, with demonstrators calling for his resignation.
Teddy Young, 24, from Bedfordshire, charged under National Security Act after arrest by counter-terror policeA serving member of the Royal Navy has been charged with spying, police have said.Teddy Young, 24, will appear today at Westminster magistrates’ court after he was charged with obtaining protected information that could benefit a unnamed foreign power. Continue reading...
Teddy Young, 24, from Bedfordshire, charged under National Security Act after arrest by counter-terror policeA serving member of the Royal Navy has been charged with spying, police have said.Teddy Young, 24, will appear today at Westminster magistrates’ court after he was charged with obtaining protected information which could benefit a unnamed foreign power. Continue reading...
Israel said in September it would act in response to UK sanctions on illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
Tonda Eckert let off with fine and reprimand but avoids ban and will continue in his role with the club.
Demonstrators have rejected a promise by Sébastien Lecornu to present a plan to fix the country’s education system by the end of the monthHigh school protests across France show no sign of slowing down, with nearly 400 educational establishments facing disruptions this morning.Demonstrators have rejected a promise by prime minister Sébastien Lecornu to present a plan to fix the country’s education...
Five rock-hewn mosques and associated sacred sites dating from the 12th to the 18th centuries make up Kazakhstan’s newest UNESCO World Heritage property. The complexes preserve centuries of Sufi tradition alongside much older beliefs.
The Nobel Prize in literature will be awarded by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm
A seven-story building in Istanbul has partially collapsed, trapping at least seven people, including a 6-year-old
A commander allied with Ethiopia’s government reports Eritrean soldiers entered in Adigrat and Idaga Hamus, with military officers conducting surveillance in Idaga Hamus
Oliver Farry welcomes Guy Poran, a former Israeli Air Force officer and member of Mistaclim (Looking the Occupation in the Eye). Poran sees October 7 as a profound rupture in Israeli society following the unprecedented Hamas attack, which targeted civilians across generations. He argues that responsibility for the failures cannot be separated from the policies that preceded the attack, including t...
US artificial intelligence company Anthropic has introduced Chinese-language options to its Claude chatbot in supported markets, even as it continues to block users from mainland China. Checks by the South China Morning Post on Thursday confirmed that Claude’s web interface now lets users select simplified and traditional Chinese as their preferred on-screen language. China also briefly appeared a...
In an astonishing discovery, a seemingly unremarkable painting by David Bowie was acquired for just C$5 at a South River donation center. Once authenticated as DHead XLVI, the artwork soared to a staggering auction price of C$108,120. Experts linked it to Bowie's 1990s oeuvre, showcasing how opportunistic collectors can miss hidden treasures without knowledge of their past.
A 2,600-acre timber property in South Carolina, near the rivers where Revolutionary War commander Francis Marion hid from British forces, has been transferred to the state for conservation. The land forms part of a 7,600-acre project covering more than 60 miles of riverfront, aimed at protecting historic sites, wildlife habitats and floodplains that help reduce flooding.
The Left MEP Marc Botenga said his group’s proposal to halve MEPs’ salaries would bring them “down to earth” and make it easier for them to “realise what a normal European is going through”.
