The judgment is a stinging rebuke to the government, which has targeted dissent using expansive powers under a national security law imposed by Beijing after Hong Kong’s huge pro-democracy protests in 2019. The law can be used to demand information from alleged “foreign agents” and authorities used that power in 2021 on the now-disbanded Hong […]
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered the biggest confrontation between the West and Russia since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and both the Kremlin and the White House have cautioned against missteps that could trigger World War Three. But the advance of Russian forces in Ukraine in 2024 and U.S. President Donald Trump’s upending of U.S. […]
Tropical Cyclone Alfred was 250 kilometres (155 miles) east of busy Brisbane city on Thursday afternoon, but government forecasts warned its slow and “erratic” crawl towards the mainland was growing difficult to predict. Some four million people were in the firing line along a 400-kilometre (250-mile) stretch of coastline expected to see the worst of […]
The VA’s chief of staff, Christopher Syrek, sent a memo to senior agency officials on Tuesday, telling them the goal was to return the agency to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000. That would mean cutting about 82,000 staff. The memo directed agency staff to work with tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government […]
“Without immediate action, hard-won progress in the fight against TB is at risk. Our collective response must be swift, strategic, and fully resourced to protect the most vulnerable and maintain momentum toward ending TB,” said Tereza Kasaeva, director of WHO’s Global Programme on TB and Lung Health. Critical international aid, particularly from the U.S. Agency […]
In a cable expected to be filed with the department’s internal “dissent channel,” which allows diplomats to raise concerns about policy anonymously, the diplomats said the Trump administration’s January 20 freeze on almost all foreign aid also endangers American diplomats and forces overseas while putting at risk the lives of millions abroad that depend on […]
“A new era is upon us,” the European Commission president said in a letter presenting the plan to EU leaders, two days before a summit aimed at cementing joint action on support for Ukraine and European security longer term. “Europe faces a clear and present danger on a scale that none of us has seen […]
Spot gold was up 0.2% at $2,898.25 an ounce, as of 0805 GMT, after rising nearly 1% on Monday. U.S. gold futures gained 0.2% to $2,907.90. “It’s a modest move so far today… The clear deterioration in global trade relations and the weaker U.S. dollar on fears of a sudden slowdown in U.S. growth gave […]
Beijing also placed twenty-five U.S. firms under export and investment restrictions on national security grounds, but refrained from punishing any household names, as it did when it retaliated against the Trump administration’s February 4 tariffs. In a press conference, China’s foreign ministry said the country has never succumbed to bullying or coercion, and that “trying […]
Tropical Cyclone Alfred was swirling about 550 kilometers (340 miles) east of the major city of Brisbane, with models showing it veering towards the mainland later in the day. Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Dean Narramore said the storm was likely to cross the coast late Thursday or early Friday, striking land between metropolitan Brisbane and […]
