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2 Academicians Go Missing In Balochistan, Search Efforts Underway
Authorities have launched efforts to trace the missing individuals, as concerns continue to grow over the safety of the senior university officials.
At Trump-Xi's Lavish Banquet, Huaiyang Cuisine To Set Tone For Diplomacy
For decades, China has used the powerful symbolism of food during landmark official events and when receiving distinguished foreign visitors.
Opinion: Opinion | Trump-Xi Meeting, And The Problem With Dismissing America Too Soon
Americs is bruised, but appearances can be deceptive in great power politics.
Who Is Golshifteh Farahani? Actor Linked To Emmanuel Macron In 'Slap' Row
Paris Match political correspondent Florian Tardif suggested the incident followed a jealous argument after Brigitte Macron saw messages exchanged between Emmanuel Macron and Farahani.
India Calls For UN Reforms, Gaza Ceasefire At BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meet
Jaishankar opened his address with a frank assessment of a deteriorating global landscape. Conflicts, climate events, and the Covid pandemic, he said, had been "key contributory factors" to widening vulnerabilities.
China's Door Will Open Wider To US Businesses: Xi Jinping Tells US CEOs
Trump-Xi Summit: The US President wants China to stop weaponising supply chains, especially rare earths that power US tech and defence industries.
Visionary, Icon, Villain: What China Thinks About Tesla CEO Elon Musk
Elon Musk is among a group of more than a dozen CEOs and top executives accompanying US President Donald Trump to Beijing for a summit with Xi Jinping.
Streeting allies claim more MPs asking Starmer to resign, as No 10 says health secretary has PM’s full confidence - UK politics live
Cabinet ministers have rejected the suggestions and accused Streeting’s supporters of attempting to ‘brief resignations into existence’Full report: Streeting in standoff with No 10 as allies claim ‘things are shifting’Al Carns, the defence minister first elected in 2024, will launch his own leadership bid if a contest starts, Sky News is reporting.Asked about this last night, Carns told Sky: “I’m just a humble junior minister.”Unless Labour understands that insecurity on an emotional level as well as on an economic one, we will continue to lose voters who would naturally align with us. Working-class voters have not simply left Labour. Many feel Labour stopped understanding their lives, and so they looked elsewhere.What is the point of Labour if it does not represent Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent, Barnsley, Swansea and Aberdeen? What is the point of the Labour party if it cannot replace despair and frustration with hope, stability and purpose? The party was founded to give ordinary working people security, dignity and bargaining power over their lives. Continue reading...
Republicans’ plan for zero state income tax could be ‘devastating’, experts warn
As Missouri asks voters whether to eliminate tax, experts say claims it will grow businesses and create jobs aren’t trueHannah Rejali, 34, lived through the failed so-called “Kansas Experiment” in the 2010s, when the Republican governor cut the state’s income tax to try to give a “shot of adrenaline” to its economy but instead left the state with a $900m budget shortfall.That meant, for example, that in 2015, at least eight school districts ended their academic year early. Continue reading...
Latvia prime minister resigns days after ‘stray’ drone incursion – Europe live
Evika Siliņa said she was frustrated by the response to the incident and late alerts for the populationGerman chancellor Friedrich Merz has strongly condemned the Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight, and rejected Vladimir Putin’s suggestion that one of his predecessors could play a role negotiating a peace settlement.In a speech in Aachen, Merz said that while Ukraine and Europe “want to help end this terrible war as quickly as possible,” the Russian attacks “speak a different language” to that of Putin’s suggestions the war could be nearing an end.“Last but not least, we Europeans decide for ourselves who speaks for us. No one else.” Continue reading...
Trump China visit live: ‘US and China should be partners, not rivals’, Xi says after earlier warning on Taiwan
Security was heightened in Beijing ahead of the two leaders’ crucial talks, where they discussed economic cooperation, trade and IranTrump lands in China for high-stakes summit with Xi Jinping as Iran war looms over talksExplainer: five key issues on the table at summitSign up for the Breaking News US emailDonald Trump will drive through a Chinese capital that is smoggier than it was on his last visit in 2017, when the authorities launched emergency measures to clear the skies of pollution days before his first state visit to Beijing.Factories were ordered to halt production and heavily polluting cars were banned from the roads in the days ahead of the US president’s trip nearly a decade ago, an era in which China had declared war on air pollution and made special efforts to clear the skies ahead of important political events such as visiting dignitaries and the Beijing Olympics. Continue reading...
Philippine politician wanted by ICC flees senate after days holed up in building
Ronald dela Rosa, wanted over involvement in Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’, reportedly left heavily guarded building before dawnA Philippine lawmaker wanted by the international criminal court for his alleged role enforcing Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody anti-drugs crackdown has secretly fled the senate, after spending days holed up in the building to avoid arrest.The senate president, Alan Peter Cayetano, confirmed to the media that senator Ronald dela Rosa was “no longer in the building”, after reports that he had slipped out of the heavily guarded building before dawn. Continue reading...
