BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Economy Minister Sergio Massa concedes defeat in presidential runoff before official results released.
Dozens of Palestinian men captured by the Israeli military were stripped to their underwear and paraded around a central square in Gaza where Hamas fighters used to hold rallies.
Nearly 200 Nepalese nationals are serving as mercenaries in the Russian army – but it’s not only a phenomenon benefitting the Kremlin’s military recruitment, as Namita Singh explains
Yang Guang's rise from a village farmer to an Audi-driving businessman with two properties hinged largely on one of the most coveted documents in China: an urban hukou, or residency permit. The 45-year-old who lives in the central city of Zhengzhou likens the permit - which typically ties a person's access to health, education, loans and other services to their birthplace - to a "cattle ear-tag the state clipped us with". When Zhengzhou in the early 2000s temporarily allowed those who bought an apartment to also qualify for a city hukou, Yang seized the opportunity, allowing him to register a business and open stores across Henan province's capital, transforming his fortunes.
The Russian missile ship the Askold, which was destroyed on Nov. 4 after a Ukrainian missile struck the shipyard in Kerch, on the east coast of the occupied Crimean peninsula, will not be repaired, a Telegram news channel has claimed.
The UAE has defended its lavish welcome for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court over his illegal war in Ukraine.
NYU professor Eli Bartov says ‘no evidence of concealment’ while ex-president says ‘we did nothing wrong – the bank loves us’
Increasingly isolated world leader faces arrest warrant from International Criminal Court on international soil over his war in Ukraine
Chinese warships have docked for the first time at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, which is undergoing a Chinese-funded upgrade that has drawn concerns from the United States over its potential role in expanding China’s overseas military footprint.
When Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched missiles and hit three commercial ships in the southern Red Sea last weekend, it triggered an immediate question: Will the U.S. military strike back? The Houthis have sharply escalated their attacks against ships as they sail toward the narrow Bab el-Mandeb Strait. No one has been reported hurt in the Houthi incidents, although the commercial ships suffered some damage.
The fourth Republican debate is over, and what did we learn? Wednesday night’s showdown in Alabama touched on issues which previous debates skipped over — most glaringly, the GOP’s culture war against transgender Americans. Obviously, the frontrunner, Donald Trump, was once again absent.
‘Maybe I won’t return for the rest of my life,’ says one of city’s most prominent pro-democracy voices
Simchat Greyman had to pause several times when describing the evidence of sexual violence he saw when recovering the bodies of victims of the October 7 Hamas terror attack on Israel.
China said on Thursday that Biden administration plans to limit Chinese content in batteries eligible for generous electric vehicle tax credits from next year violate international trade norms and will disrupt global supply chains. The plans will make investors in the U.S. electric vehicle (EV) supply chain ineligible for tax credits should they use more than a trace amount of critical materials from China, or other countries deemed a "Foreign Entity of Concern" (FEOC).
Ukrainian men are trekking through mountains to dodge conscription, according to border officials.
Myanmar’s military government has been freeing soldiers and police who had been jailed for desertion and absence without leave, seeking to get them to return to active duty, a police officer and an army officer said Thursday. The releases follow an an amnesty plan announced earlier this week to get them back into service in order to ease an apparent manpower shortage. The plan was an apparent consequence of the military facing the greatest battlefield pressures since it seized power from the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in February 2021.
Through the rubble of north Gaza, under cover of a brief Israel-Hamas truce, a convoy of vehicles last Tuesday mounted one of the most unusual missions of the war: the retrieval of about 180mn shekels in cash. The stash of notes, weighing close to a tonne and worth the equivalent of $50mn, was kept in two Bank of Palestine branches based in some of the most devastated parts of the besieged enclave, where today barely a building stands unscathed and no cash machines function. Worried about a growing cash shortage in Gaza’s south, where the majority of the enclave’s 2.3mn population has fled, and where most of the beneficiaries of humanitarian aid are now based, Bank of Palestine officials saw the truce as a chance to retrieve the 200-shekel notes stranded in the north — and help stave off the collapse of the economy.
More than three quarters of Jewish people think the BBC’s coverage of the war in Gaza is biased against Israel, a survey has found.
A year on, protesters who hastened the end of a crushing policy tell the BBC they worry for their safety.
Chinese investments in Vietnam have boomed this year in contrast to a slowdown in U.S. spending and trade, official data show, as the world's two largest economies vie for influence in the strategic Southeast Asian country. The manufacturing hub stretching along the South China Sea is increasingly a key assembling link in global supply chains that often rely on Chinese components and U.S. consumers. U.S. President Joe Biden achieved an upgrade of diplomatic relations with the former foe in a visit to Hanoi in September, after a year of intense diplomatic efforts to elevate the United States to the same tier as China in Vietnam's ranking.
The former GOP congresswoman gave her two cents on the ousted House speaker’s upcoming departure from Congress.
