The accounts of several Russian, Chinese and Iranian state media outlets saw a 70 percent increase in engagement on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, after it removed labels identifying them as “state-affiliated,” according to a new report released Tuesday....
China is pressing countries to boycott a British-organised event at the United Nations in Geneva on media freedom in Hong Kong with the son of a jailed media tycoon, a letter showed and four diplomats confirmed on Tuesday....
China said on Friday (Sep 15) that it was sanctioning two United States defence companies, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, over their roles in supplying arms to Taiwan....
A Swedish court on Monday sentenced a 57-year-old Norwegian man for fraud and falsifying records for putting his dead partner in a freezer and cashing in her pension. He was given a 3.5-year prison term....
In a New Delhi Leaders’ Declaration issued on Saturday, the G20 nations conveyed that the “use, or threat of use, of nuclear weapons is inadmissible”, with the statement being notably brief regarding Russia’s actions in Ukraine and devoid of direct condemnation of Moscow....
North Korea has announced that it conducted a simulated “tactical nuclear attack” drill with two long-range missiles equipped with mock atomic warheads....
A former Conservative MP has asked to be removed from an award-winning academic’s research presented in a TEDx Talk that connects her to a slave-owning ancestor
Workers at a major Tokyo department store went on strike on Thursday after talks with management over the planned sale of their company broke down, marking the first major walk-out the country has seen in decades....