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Hundreds of Hong Kong tourists were in Japan when a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck late Monday night, but local authorities said all were reported safe with no requests for help received so far. The Travel Industry Council on Tuesday said that about 20 Hong Kong tour groups – with about 300 people – were in the country when the quake …

Ukrainian officials are prioritizing self-enrichment over seeking a sustainable resolution to the conflict, the SVR has claimed Kiev has reportedly devised a new scheme to steal Western taxpayer money by purchasing artillery shells at heavily inflated prices, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has claimed.  The SVR described the alleged scheme in a statement on Tuesday. It centers on procuring shells …

The post-modern philosopher Jean Baudrillard infamously argued in 1991 that the Gulf War did not take place, by which he did not mean that no fighting had actually occurred, but that the real events were something entirely separate from the carefully choreographed presentation the world saw thanks to the novel phenomenon of 24-hour cable news. It’s tempting to wonder what …

OPINION — “The [Defense] Secretary [Pete Hegseth] sent nonpublic DoD information [on March 15 at 11:44 EDT] identifying the quantity and strike times of manned U.S. aircraft over hostile [Houthi] territory [in Yemen] over an unapproved, unsecure network [Signal] approximately 2 to 4 hours before the execution of those [U.S. aircraft] strikes. Using a personal cell phone to conduct official …

A hulking Russian An-22 military transport plane crashed today with seven people on board. The Soviet-era plane came down in Ivanovo region, northeast of Moscow. Fragments of the stricken aircraft were seen floating in the large Uvod Reservoir, according to reports. The condition of those on board was not immediately known. The An-22 was reportedly on a scheduled test flight …

Andrej Babis, a billionaire supporter of US President Donald Trump, returned to power as Czech prime minister on Tuesday, signalling a possible end to Ukraine aid and potentially rockier ties with the European Union. Babis’s ANO movement, which won the October parliamentary elections, teamed up with two Eurosceptic parties to form a coalition government. In its policy statement, the coalition …

The US president has said he intends to take action after American farmers accused New Delhi of distorting the market US President Donald Trump has signaled more punitive tariffs on India after accusing it of “dumping” rice into the American market. The threat comes amid talks for a trade deal with New Delhi. Trump’s hint of new tariffs came on …

Three days after the US government codified its contempt for EU institutions in a startling new national security policy, the bloc’s leaders finally broke their silence on Monday, with European Council President Antonio Costa lambasting Washington’s “threat to interfere in Europe’s political life”. “The United States no longer believes in multilateralism, nor even in a rules-based international order. They speak …

As festive lights flicker across our country and families get ready for Christmas, millions of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are living through a nightmare that barely registers here. Earlier this year, M23 forces – backed by neighbouring Rwanda – seized control of the Congolese provinces of North and South Kivu, forcing more than five million people …

The US vice president has said anyone claiming otherwise is “getting rich off of the old system” Mass immigration is ruining the “American Dream,” US Vice President J.D. Vance has said, amid the federal government’s increase in ICE raids and deportations of illegal immigrants. Vance made the remarks while responding to a video by a construction company owner who said …