Israel says it killed Hamas weapons chief in Gaza
Published: 4:09am, 14 Dec 2025Updated: 4:34am, 14 Dec 2025 Israel said it had killed the head of weapons production in Hamas’s military wing in...
Belarus agrees to stop balloon flights into Lithuania amid hybrid attack fears
US President Donald Trump’s envoy John Coale said on Saturday that Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko had promised to stop weather balloons flying from his...
UK police won’t investigate ex-prince Andrew over Virginia Giuffre allegation
London’s Metropolitan Police said on Saturday it had decided not to launch a criminal investigation into allegations that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, brother of King Charles,...
Trump vows retaliation after 2 US troops and a civilian killed in Syria ambush
Published: 11:19pm, 13 Dec 2025Updated: 12:00am, 14 Dec 2025 Several Syrian and American soldiers were wounded when shots were fired at a joint military...
China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after initial ChatGPT shock
US start-up OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT on November 30 three years ago sent China’s technology industry scrambling to get up to speed on the...
Filipino helper killed in Hong Kong fire ‘was going home for good to be with son’
Published: 10:34pm, 13 Dec 2025Updated: 10:37pm, 13 Dec 2025 A domestic helper who died in Hong Kong’s devastating Tai Po fire last month planned...
Belarus frees opposition figure Kolesnikova, Nobel laureate Bialiatski, for US sanctions relief
Published: 10:32pm, 13 Dec 2025Updated: 10:38pm, 13 Dec 2025 Belarusian authorities have released Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figure Maria...
Hong Kong launches professional services platform for mainland Chinese companies
Hong Kong authorities have launched a professional services platform to provide support for mainland Chinese companies expanding overseas, while boosting business opportunities for local...
How an American family’s wartime bond with China is bringing the countries together
When Elyn MacInnis first moved to Nanjing in the late 1980s, she was greeted by a wholly unexpected connection. Local elderly residents would look...