In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a fighter takes off during the combat readiness patrol and military exercises around the Taiwan Island carried out by the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from Nanjing in eastern China on April 8, 2023. Recent Chinese air and sea drills simulating an

French President Emmanuel Macron poses for a photo with Chinese President Xi Jinping after meeting the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, April 6, 2023. Reuters/Ng Han Guan By Reuters Comments by French President Emmanuel Macron on Taiwan are puzzling, a senior Taiwanese politician said, wondering whether France’s founding

The economic forecast is better – but still the worst in the G7 (PA) The Independent By Alastair Jamieson and Jon Stone Britain is on course for the worst economic performance of the G7, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted as it warned of more turmoil in a “fragile” global financial system. UK output is

Photo/Somali Times Somalia shady President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud met with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday at the Presidential Palace in Mogadishu to discuss genocide northern Somalia committed by warlord Muse Bihi Abdi. Read: UN Human Rights Committee has called for an investigation into the killings in Las Anod Read: Why is Somalia an

Members of nationalist group ‘Dissident Republicans’ throw petrol bombs at a police car as nationalists hold an anti-agreement rally on the 25th anniversary of the peace deal, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, April 10, 2023. Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne By Reuters A number of masked people attacked a police vehicle with petrol bombs and other objects at a

Copper mining in Kolwezi, eastern DR Congo. Photo/AFP By The East African The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has embarked on a definitive review of mining contracts awarded to a Chinese firm it co-owns with Beijing, but whose work and profits have formed continual concerns raised by the government on fairness. Officials, in trying to

By Anadolu Agency China on Monday said its latest military drills encircling Taiwan are a “stern warning to Taiwan secessionist forces and their collusion with external forces.” Wang Wenbin, the spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, said the “Joint Sword” three-day drills held by People’s Liberation Army (PLA) since Saturday, “encircling Taiwan island are a stern

By The Associated Press Ethnic and religious minorities in the UK are suffering “strikingly high” levels of abuse, according to a major survey into race equality. The research by the universities of St Andrews, Manchester and King’s College London found more than one in three people from minority backgrounds have experienced racially motivated physical or

An aerial view of the Pentagon (lower left), Potomac River (C) and Washington Monument in Washington. Reuters/Jason Reed By Reuters Highly classified military and intelligence documents that appeared online, with details ranging from Ukraine’s air defenses to Israel’s Mossad spy agency, have U.S. officials scrambling to identify the leak’s source, with some Western security experts

By Voice of America Qamar Ali Haji has been using skin-lightening products for four years. Initially she liked the change in her appearance but now the exposure to the chemicals in the products is taking a toll. She says she regrets it. “I can’t sit too long in the school, I cannot bear the heat,