Keiko Fujimori sworn in as president of Peru following narrow election victory
Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s ninth president in a decade at an official ceremony in Lima on Tuesday, Agence France-Presse journalists observed....
Trump shows irritation with Netanyahu before White House talks on Iran
Published: 1:49am, 29 Jul 2026Updated: 3:15am, 29 Jul 2026 US President Donald Trump voiced irritation with Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of their White House meeting...
Zelensky has a ‘good meeting’ with Trump as he seeks more cooperation with US
Published: 12:55am, 29 Jul 2026Updated: 1:53am, 29 Jul 2026 US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met on Tuesday ahead of Senator...
France, Spain make headway against wildfires but new heatwave looms
Published: 12:01am, 29 Jul 2026Updated: 2:21am, 29 Jul 2026 Firefighters raced on Tuesday to subdue huge wildfires that have forced unprecedented evacuations of tens...
Lindsey Graham eulogised as an ‘American original’ at memorial service
Published: 11:44pm, 28 Jul 2026Updated: 2:18am, 29 Jul 2026 Senator Lindsey Graham, the son of pool hall owners who rose to become one of...
Hongkonger in Japan’s quake-hit Kumamoto describes shock: ‘I was quite scared’
Published: 11:24pm, 28 Jul 2026Updated: 2:45am, 29 Jul 2026 A Hongkonger has described being “quite scared” as a 7.1-magnitude quake shook Japan’s southern Kumamoto...
Exclusive: The Jacob Helberg interview
NEWSCMP US Series In this exclusive interview, US Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs Jacob Helberg discusses the AI battle between Washington and Beijing,...
Record Chinese biotech out-licensing meets rising US scrutiny
China’s emergence as a global biotechnology innovation hub has become a source of strategic concern in the United States, prompting policymakers in Washington to...
Telling Hong Kong judge to retire early is sufficient penalty for plagiarism: experts
Telling a Hong Kong judge found to have plagiarised submissions in his judgments to retire early is a sufficient penalty, as he has already...