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A man has died in west Sydney after being shot multiple times in broad daylight, police have confirmed New South Wales (NSW) police were called to Carinya Street, Blacktown, at about 11.50am on Friday, November 28, following reports of a public place shooting. Officers attached to Blacktown Police Area Command found a man with gunshot wounds to his neck, chest …

Peru’s Supreme Court on Thursday sentenced leftist ex-president Pedro Castillo to more than 11 years in jail for trying to dissolve Congress and rule by decree to avoid impeachment. Dubbed Peru’s first poor president, the former rural teacher, who had never held elected office before winning the presidency, was impeached by Congress and jailed following his attempted power grab in …

The Russian Supreme Court has designated the pressure group Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), run by associates of late opposition figure Alexey Navalny, as a terrorist group. Russian authorities had previously banned several organizations founded by Navalny’s team, whose publicly active members have fled the country and now reside abroad. The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office said on Thursday that the US-registered entity, …

The death toll after the deadliest blazes in the Hong Kong’s modern history has risen to 94 as firefighters battled for a second day to extinguish the fire. Rescuers holding flashlights were going from apartment to apartment at the charred towers as thick smoke poured out from some windows at the Wang Fuk Court complex, a dense cluster of buildings …

Chinese electric vehicle (EV) builders are increasingly shipping their cars abroad to spur international sales ahead of an expected downturn in their home market, analysts say, as Beijing phases out incentives such as tax holidays and cash subsidies. The carmakers, which can enjoy a net margin of 20,000 yuan (US$706) per vehicle by selling their cars outside mainland China, are …

Beijing revives an uncomfortable truth: the global order belongs to the winners of WW2 By Timofey Bordachev, Program Director of the Valdai Club The foundations of any world order are rarely found in the institutions built to represent it. They lie instead in a simple, unchanging fact: power belongs to those strong enough to impose rules and to those who …

The BBC has issued an apology over its BBC News at Six report, which was published on the corporation’s Corrections and Clarifications page this week. The correction was published on Wednesday, November 26, and it’s in reference to a report about billionaire Elon Musk‘s claims that without him, US President Donald Trump “would have lost the election”. The BBC‘s reporting …

The backlash against Trump’s envoy is meant to derail peace talks and prolong the Ukraine conflict, the Russian president has said Western critics of US envoy Steve Witkoff are driven by a desire to keep the Ukraine conflict going and profit from it together with officials in Kiev, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Putin made the remarks on Thursday …

Hong Kong’s finance chief courted Italian companies on Thursday to go public on the city’s stock exchange, which would allow them to tap into mainland Chinese liquidity and solidify their presence in Asia. Addressing the Trade Development Council’s “Think Business, Think Hong Kong” symposium in Milan, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po highlighted the deepening ties between Hong Kong and Italy, …

From the moment Russian tanks crossed the Ukrainian border and set their course for Kyiv, the United Kingdom has stood firmly alongside its allies in defence of a democratic nation under assault. Governments have changed, world leaders have come and gone and new crises have emerged – yet the core message from London has remained constant. Ukraine’s sovereignty is non-negotiable. …