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Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah said on Thursday that last month’s catastrophic floods were a “warning to the world” of growing climate risks in the Himalayas. He said warming was melting glaciers and permafrost and urged international support to help Nepal adapt to threats it could not face alone.
Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAI hack of Medicare exposes Australia’s vulnerabilitiesTechnology experts have warned revelations an artificial intelligence agent hacked Medicare’s internal systems will not be the only dangerous breach of government data and have called for Australia to boost its protections against the growing risk.Frontier AI ...
Mikie Sherrill says Dale Caldwell ‘engaged in serious, repeated violations’ involving staffers and giftsNew Jersey’s governor on Thursday called on the state’s lieutenant governor, Dale Caldwell, to resign by Friday after a law firm hired by her office concluded he violated the state’s ethics and discrimination rules.The report published Wednesday found that Caldwell violated the state’s policy pr...
Before setting off for Washington on Wednesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping had some correspondence to attend to. Dozens of students from 10 US universities, including Harvard, had written to Xi about their experiences on an exchange trip to China this year. According to the State Council, Xi responded with a call to the students to advance cooperation between the two countries. The gesture exten...
Hong Kong’s first five-year plan marks an unprecedented milestone not only for its economic and social development, but also for how it governs itself. The plan, which drew on 16,000 public submissions – roughly 80 per cent from ordinary citizens – is a testament to the government’s commitment to long-term development, which shows an unusual convergence of public consensus and political will. For ...
The BBC’s China correspondent Laura Bicker unpacks how the trip panned out for Beijing and Washington.
Britain’s Newcastle University faced criticism on Thursday for awarding a sustainability professorship to Anant Ambani, the son of Asia’s richest man and owner of a scandal-hit giant wildlife centre in India. Vantara, which calls itself the world’s largest rescue centre, last month announced a major reset of its procedures following concerns about its rapid and vast acquisition of animals from aro...
Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump addressed top American business executives and officials in the White House’s East Room on Thursday evening, ahead of a state dinner. The dinner capped a tightly scheduled day for the two leaders, who delivered speeches in the morning hailing close ties and urging deeper cooperation. During the day, Xi and Trump held their second face-to-face meeting this yea...
CNN and MS NOW said reporters were denied access to covering White House arrivals for a state dinner, despite a judge ruling their passes must be restored.
Just two months ago, President Donald Trump gave a primetime speech accusing China of interfering in the 2020 election.
Cardi B adds star power to Milan Fashion Week as she arrives at the Roberto Cavalli runway show
Sources tell CBS News that despite warnings about the vulnerability of the outpost in Kuwait, commanders opted not to rebase farther from Iran.
Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAI hack of Medicare exposes Australia’s vulnerabilitiesTechnology experts have warned revelations an artificial intelligence agent hacked Medicare’s internal systems will not be the only dangerous breach of government data and have called for Australia to boost its protections against the growing risk.Frontier AI ...
Forty-nine passengers have been rescued and a search is under way for the missing.
Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAI hack of Medicare exposes Australia’s vulnerabilitiesTechnology experts have warned revelations an artificial intelligence agent hacked Medicare’s internal systems will not be the only dangerous breach of government data and have called for Australia to boost its protections against the growing risk.Frontier AI ...
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is up two points, but that's still within the poll's margin of error.
Introducing legislation to protect minors by regulating social media use is among the options on the table, Hong Kong’s justice minister has said, after the latest policy address unveiled plans to create a task force to review the situation. Speaking to the South China Morning Post and other media outlets on Wednesday, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam Ting-kwok dismissed concerns that such measures ...
Other news networks boycott dinner in honor of Xi Jinping after officials deny CNN and MS Now permissionUS politics live – latest updatesJournalists for CNN and MS Now were denied access to the White House state dinner in honor of Xi Jinping, China’s president, on Thursday evening, despite a federal judge ruling the Trump administration must allow them in after imposing a ban last week.“About an h...
UAE joins Oman, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkmenistan in restricting access to Iranian airlines.
A 4.1-percentage-point rise in poverty in the first half of 2026 could be bad news for Milei's re-election bid.
As Donald Trump and Xi Jinping meet at the White House for a state dinner on Thursday, culinary diplomacy is on the menu for guests who include business leaders and government officials. “The menu showcases American ingredients with subtle Chinese influence, bringing the culinary traditions of both nations together,” the office of American first lady Melania Trump said. Xi is dressed in a black Zh...
Other news networks boycotted White House state dinner in honor of Xi Jinping after officials denied CNN permissionUS politics live – latest updatesJournalists for CNN and MS Now were denied access to the White House state dinner in honor of Xi Jinping, China’s president, on Thursday evening, despite a federal judge ruling the Trump administration must allow them in after imposing a ban last week....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has put North Korea in a propaganda bind, analysts say, by publicly revealing that Kyiv recently transferred two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea. The disclosure – made during Zelensky’s address to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday – directly challenges Pyongyang’s narrative that its soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces choose death over ...
Saudi, Turkish, Pakistani army chiefs invoke Mecca pact for urgent talks over Houthi attacks.
Saudi, Turkish, Pakistani army chiefs invoke Mecca pact for urgent talks over Houthi attacks.
Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani military chiefs plan urgent meeting over Houthi attacks.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says Iran wants the US to return to the MoU by early November.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan will hold an urgent, high-level meeting under a joint defence pact to discuss ways to support the Gulf kingdom amid attacks by Yemen's Houthis, the Saudi foreign ministry said Friday. In New York, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Fox News that it was up to the US to choose whether to end the Iran war. Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.
It is for the United States to choose whether to end its war in Iran as Tehran does not wish to continue fighting, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Fox News in an interview aired Thursday. Pezeshkian took a defiant stand at the UN Wednesday, for which he travelled to New York, telling the world that Iran would not "bend at the knee" to Washington Follow our liveblog for the latest updates....
