Why people join the Chinese Communist Party
BEIJING - The Chinese Communist Party boasts 92 million members from all walks of life, drawn by ideology, ambition, and the pragmatic knowledge of...
Families wait for news of survivors after Florida building collapse
SURFSIDE (ETATS-UNIS) - Staring into space or sobbing, family members of those missing in the Florida apartment building collapse waited in anguish for news...
Gibraltar votes ‘yes’ to easing abortion laws
GIBRALTAR - Gibraltar voted by a large majority to ease its draconian abortion laws in a referendum delayed for over a year by the...
Canada finds hundreds of graves at former indigenous school: media
MONTREAL - Hundreds of unmarked graves have been found near a former Catholic residential school for indigenous children in western Canada, local media reported...
China’s crypto-miners look abroad as regulators tighten noose
BEIJING - When a prefecture in northwestern China's Xinjiang region ordered a halt on cryptocurrency mining projects this month, Chris Zhu scrambled to move...
Russia says to boost military ties with Myanmar as junta leader...
MOSCOW: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told Myanmar's junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing that Moscow is committed to strengthening military ties with...
No jury as Hong Kong’s first ‘national security’ trial begins
HONG KONG - The first trial under Hong Kong's new national security law began on Wednesday without a jury, a watershed moment for the...
Members of Saudi hit squad that killed Khashoggi were trained in...
WASHINGTON - Four members of the Saudi hit squad that killed US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 had received paramilitary training in the United...
Counting under way in ‘historic’ Ethiopia election
ADDIS ABABA - Vote-counting was under way Tuesday following elections in Ethiopia that went ahead without polling in the war-torn northern Tigray region and...
US has ‘wrong’ expectation for dialogue: Kim’s sister
SEOUL: The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Tuesday that Washington had "wrong" expectations for dialogue with Pyongyang and was...
