Drone strike on market in disputed Sudan border region kills at least 153
Published: 2:16pm, 21 Oct 2026Updated: 2:50pm, 21 Oct 2026 A drone strike on a market in Abyei, a border region disputed by Sudan and...
China eases uncertainty over offshore trust taxes before grace period ends
Published: 2:03pm, 21 Oct 2026Updated: 2:06pm, 21 Oct 2026 China’s tax authorities are accepting reasonable explanations when enforcing new rules on offshore trust gains,...
What’s behind the quiet US diplomatic thaw with Myanmar?
Fresh from walking down red carpets laid out by his Southeast Asian neighbours, Myanmar’s ex-military chief Min Aung Hlaing appears to have a new...
Hong Kong police arrest 4 teenagers over viral back-alley assault video
Published: 1:22pm, 21 Oct 2026Updated: 1:47pm, 21 Oct 2026 Hong Kong police have arrested four boys on suspicion of inciting another person to become...
DeepSeek seeks ‘total victory’ over closed-source AI with new open-source tool
Published: 1:03pm, 21 Oct 2026Updated: 1:17pm, 21 Oct 2026 Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has fully open-sourced an internally developed framework designed to run...
India’s voter roll overhaul fuels citizenship fears: ‘what if they ask us to leave?’
Laddli Khatun pulled one document after another from a yellow bag, desperately hoping one would be enough to keep her name on India’s electoral...
Why is Hong Kong so hot in October and will winter be warmer than usual?
Hong Kong’s exceptionally warm October weather is being driven by a combination of a super typhoon, El Nino and global warming, a climate expert...
Trump Participates in Midterm Rally in Greenville, North Carolina
President Donald Trump participates in a midterm election rally at 7 p.m. ET on Oct. 20 at Pitt-Greenville Airport in Greenville, North Carolina. …
House Panel Challenges Webull’s Claims on US Customer Data Access
A House panel on Oct. 20 challenged online brokerage Webull’s public assurances about who can access sensitive U.S. customer information, citing the company’s privacy...