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The Chinese ambassador to the U.S. warned that China will retaliate if the U.S. issues more restrictions on technology and trade....

China still has the tools to stabilise market expectations for the yuan’s exchange rate, while external conditions will also marginally improve as the United States is expected to conclude its run of interest rate increases, the foreign exchange regulator said on Friday....

North Korea’s defence minister has warned the United States that the deployment of nuclear assets in South Korea could meet the conditions for its use of nuclear arms, according to state media....

Sao Paulo, Brazil – Stella Li stood in front of a packed stage, banging a brightly decorated drum to a samba-reggae rhythm....

India has outlawed the export of non-basmati white rice in an attempt to ward off looming domestic price spikes....

The EU may well receive Ukraine as a candidate for accession and then leave it to rot in the antechamber, just as happened with Turkey. Right now, the EU is structurally not equipped to deal with Ukraine....

Palestinian health ministry and Red Crescent said that one person was killed and four wounded by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus....

The Sub Labans lost their home of several decades after being forced out by Israel at the start of the month. Willem Marx recounts the story of the eviction, and the push to force Palestinians out....

Ethnic violence has plunged the small Indian state of Manipur into what many have dubbed a state of civil war as the two largest groups, the majority Meitei and minority Kuki, battle over land and influence....

Astronomers have discovered a new type of stellar object that could change their understanding of extreme celestial bodies in the universe.

Ukraine is making limited advances in its counteroffensive against Russian forces but has yet to employ the kind of larger-scale operations that American officials believe could enable a breakthrough, officials and analysts say, deepening questions among some of Ukraine’s chief backers about whether Kyiv can move fast enough...

An impasse has appeared to descend on the Russia-Ukraine war which is now in its 73rd week....

Swedish energy group Vattenfall on Thursday said it had suspended development of its 1.4GW Norfolk Boreas wind farm after costs on the project rose 40 per cent....

“I would say this was one of the most important days of my life living in Finland,” Eugene Ufoka told the crowd of thousands from the steps of Parliament building in Helsinki on Wednesday evening....

AMHERST — Far-reaching implications of a travel ban on men imposed by the Ukrainian government shortly after the invasion last year, according to a new report from The Human Security Lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst....

Two-day strike by consultants comes amid record waiting times due to a pandemic backlog and multiple strikes over the past year as workers battle a cost of living crisis, Transport workers are due to strike at the same time as the consultants with staff at 14 train operators walking out on Thursday, Saturday and on July 29....

So-called ‘fake news’ and disinformation are rampant in the West African nation of Nigeria....