Iran executions hit 35-year high with 1,500 killed in 2025, rights group says
Iran executed at least 1,500 people last year, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights group said on Thursday, in what it called an “unprecedented” hike...
US Grants TSMC Export Licence for China Fab Amid Chip Supply Tensions
The United States has granted Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) an annual export licence allowing U.S. chipmaking equipment to be supplied to its Nanjing...
How the ‘world’s supermarket’ rode out Trump’s tariffs – and grew even stronger
Wang Nan, a hardware trader in China’s eastern city of Yiwu, expected her business to feel some pain when the US-China trade war escalated...
New Deep-Sea Drone Search Begins for Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
A renewed deep-sea search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 began this week in the southern Indian Ocean, reviving hopes of solving aviation’s most enduring...
DeepSeek kicks off 2026 with paper signalling push to train bigger models for less
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has ushered in 2026 with a new technical paper, co-authored by founder Liang Wenfeng, that proposes a rethink of...
Russia claims 24 killed in Ukrainian drone strike on occupied Kherson despite peace progress
Russian officials on Thursday said a Ukrainian drone strike killed 24 people and wounded at least 50 more as they celebrated the New Year...
As history makes clear, a powerful China is not expansionist
Beneath the “China threat” thesis, often heard in Western policy circles, is the assumption that China will become expansionist as it grows more powerful....
Gun Rights and Gun Control Activists Kept Courts, Legislatures Busy in 2025
The year 2025 was an active one for the Second Amendment debate. Gun rights activists hailed President Donald Trump’s gun policies, though some say...
Shocking! Inside China’s Exclusive Education System for Military Leaders’ Children
A student from a military school under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s Military Commission recently shared his high school experience in a video that...