EU takes tentative step toward using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine
Published: 5:40am, 24 Oct 2025Updated: 6:25am, 24 Oct 2025 European Union leaders on Thursday tasked the European Commission to move ahead with proposals to...
Trump and Modi’s tariff tango: Russian oil, soybeans and a delayed deal
A long-awaited trade deal between India and the United States may be facing political delays, despite broad agreement that would cut the steep 50...
Why Beijing is taking a gloves-off approach to rare earth exports
To justify his threat of a 100 per cent tariff on imports from China, US President Donald Trump framed China’s tightening of its export...
Nato member Lithuania protests airspace incursion denied by Russia
Published: 3:34am, 24 Oct 2025Updated: 10:33am, 24 Oct 2025 Lithuania summoned a Russian diplomat in protest over what it said was the entry of...
Plug pulled on Chinese firm Gotion’s US plant, days before Trump meets Xi
After years of fiery protests, lawsuits and intense scrutiny over alleged Communist Party ties, the plan for a controversial multibillion-dollar Chinese electric vehicle battery...
Colombia’s Petro accuses Trump of ‘extrajudicial executions’ in boat strikes
Published: 2:13am, 24 Oct 2025Updated: 4:51am, 24 Oct 2025 Colombia’s leftist president on Thursday renewed his criticism of US military strikes in the Caribbean...
Binance founder Zhao pardoned by Trump in latest crypto clemency
Binance co-founder Zhao Changpeng has received a pardon from US President Donald Trump after he went to prison for failing to safeguard the world’s...
US lawmakers urge Trump to press Xi on American detainees, exit bans
A group of US Republican lawmakers is urging President Donald Trump to confront Chinese President Xi Jinping at an expected summit next week about...
Pupils at century-old Hong Kong island school to be transferred under merger
Published: 12:54am, 24 Oct 2025Updated: 12:55am, 24 Oct 2025 A century-old outlying island secondary school that faced the axe after failing to enrol enough...