Chinese President Xi Jinping. File | Photo Credit: Getty Images China’s President Xi Jinping and European Union leaders are set to visit Vietnam in the next few weeks in a swirl of diplomatic activity amid growing risks from U.S. trade tariffs, officials said. China, the EU and Vietnam run very large trade surpluses with the … Read more
Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar’s capital on Tuesday (April 1, 2025), but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed more than 2,700 people, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a civil war. The fire department in Naypyitaw said the … Read more
According to local media reports, President Zardari had gone to Nawabshah to offer Eid prayers on March 31, 2025, and before that, he held a meeting with his party leaders on March 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP President Asif Ali Zardari was admitted to a private hospital in Karachi after his health deteriorated, according to … Read more
Rescuers bring down a body of a worker from the rubble of an under-construction high-rise building that collapsed after an earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP China’s Embassy in Bangkok called on Chinese companies operating abroad to comply with local laws after a Chinese construction firm came under … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 31, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI U.S. President Donald Trump’s much-anticipated reciprocal tariffs are set to take effect on April 2. These tariffs, which will apply to … Read more
Von der Leyen said that as part of its response, the EU would further diversify its trading partnerships and “double down” on the internal EU Single Market. File | Photo Credit: Reuters On the eve of U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping ‘reciprocal tariffs’ on April 2, the E.U. and U.K. had starkly contrasting responses planned, with … Read more
For years, Marine Le Pen stood at the gates of power — poised, relentless and rising. She stripped the French far right of its old symbols, sanded down its roughest edges and built in its place a sleek, disciplined machine with the single goal of winning the country’s presidency. In 2022, she came closer than … Read more
A teenager from the West Bank who was held in an Israeli prison for six months without being charged died after collapsing in unclear circumstances, becoming the first Palestinian under 18 to die in Israeli detention, officials said. Walid Ahmad, 17, was a healthy high schooler before his arrest in September for allegedly throwing stones … Read more
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz | Photo Credit: AP Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced a major expansion of the military operation in Gaza on Wednesday (April 2, 2025), saying large areas of the enclave would be seized and added to the security zones of Israel. In a statement, Mr. Katz said there would be … Read more
This file image released by the U.S. Navy shows an aerial view of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Island group. | Photo Credit: AP Britain and Mauritius are finalising a deal to transfer sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, a disputed U.K. territory that is home to a major U.S. military base, the U.K. government said … Read more