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China Tells Trump To ‘Stop Threatening And Blackmailing’ Over Tariffs
(COMBO) President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. (Photo by Jim WATSON and Anthony Kwan / AFP) China told Washington on Wednesday [more…]
Tariff: Hong Kong’s Postal Service To Stop Shipping US-Bound Goods
Stacked parcels are seen up front as a Hongkong Post employee stands at a service counter at a post office in Hong Kong on April [more…]
Peru Court Sentences Ex-President Humala To 15 Years For Graft
Peru’s former President (2011-2016), Ollanta Humala, speaks on the phone as he leaves his sentence hearing at a court in Lima on April 15, 2025. [more…]
5.6-Magnitude Quake Rattles Southern Philippines
Philippine flag A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck off the southern Philippines on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, with no immediate reports [more…]
Family Seeks Homicide Charges Against Collapsed Dominican Nightclub Owners
A woman cries outside of the Jet Set nightclub a day after the collapse of its roof in Santo Domingo on April 9, 2025. Rescue [more…]
Iraq Sandstorm Closes Airports, Puts 3,700 People In Hospital
A man pushes a bicycle past a moving tuktuk (motorised rickshaw) along a road in low visibility conditions amidst a massive dust storm in Iraq’s [more…]
Employee Dead, Client Critical After Paris Cryotherapy Session Goes Wrong
France flag A cryotherapy session in Paris has turned deadly with one woman dying and another hospitalised in critical condition due to a nitrogen leak [more…]
Singapore Parliament Dissolved Ahead Of Upcoming Elections
Singapore’s new Prime Minister Lawrence Wong is sworn during a ceremony at the Istana in Singapore on May 15, 2024. (Photo by Edgar Su / [more…]
13m Displaced As Sudan War Enters Third Year— UN
This image grab taken from AFPTV video footage on April 20, 2023, shows an aerial view of black smoke rising above the Khartoum International Airport [more…]
$2.2bn Harvard Funding Frozen After Defying Trump
Harvard Elite US university Harvard was hit with a $2.2 billion freeze in federal funding Monday after rejecting a list of sweeping demands that the White [more…]
