Drone strikes luxury hotel in Baghdad’s Green Zone, home to US embassy
A drone sparked a fire on Monday at a luxury hotel frequented by foreign diplomats in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone shortly before air defences...
South Korea and Japan bear brunt of global stock sell-offs amid oil shock
South Korea and Japan have led declines in global stock markets amid the oil shock, underscoring how supply disruptions in the Middle East are...
Jean-Claude Van Damme talks art, Hong Kong filmmakers and ‘good friend’ Vladimir Putin
If he had to pick one word, Jean-Claude Van Damme says he would describe his oil paintings as “simple”. The star of Bloodsport (1988)...
Judge Blocks RFK Jr.’s Appointees to Vaccine Panel
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled on March 16 that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. illegally appointed 13 new members to an influential...
Trump Signs Order Assigning Vance to Head Anti-Fraud Task Force
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on March 16, officially creating an anti-fraud task force headed by Vice President JD Vance, a job...
White House Outlines Vision for Underground Visitor Screening Facility
The Trump administration is proposing an underground visitor screening center beneath a park near the White House as part of broader plans to modernize...
Hong Kong to launch world’s first governed AI agent network amid OpenClaw frenzy
Hong Kong is poised to launch the world’s first open-source human-AI agent collaboration network this week, along with a series of everyday artificial intelligence...
Trump Seeks to Delay China Trip, Calls China to Help With Strait of Hormuz | China in Focus
President Donald Trump says he has asked to delay his planned meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing by about one month. He...
How China is beating the US in new weapons race with a fraction of the budget
Large passenger jets and advanced chips, BeiDou satellites and the Tiangong space station: these large-scale science and technology projects could be part of China’s...