Japan Tuesday pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent in the next decade from 2013 levels but climate campaigners said the target fell short of what was needed under the Paris Agreement to limit global warming. Under the Paris accord, each country is supposed to provide a headline figure to the United Nations […]
Asian markets were mixed Tuesday with Hong Kong resuming its tech-led rally after a meeting between President Xi Jinping and China’s top business leaders fanned hopes that a long-running crackdown on the private sector is ending. The Hang Seng Index’s gains extended an impressive start to the year, with the emergence of a new chatbot […]
Top US and Russian diplomats were meeting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their countries’ fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war. Both sides played down the chances that the first high-level meeting between the countries since US President Donald Trump took office would result […]
European leaders are gathering on Monday for a special summit to discuss plans by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the war in Ukraine. Leaders from Germany, Britain, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark are expected to attend the informal meeting in Paris. The meeting would hold alongside European Council President António Costa, European […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Thursday a deal to end the Ukraine war should not be imposed on Kyiv, after US President Donald Trump agreed to open negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a call. “The next task is to ensure that there is no dictated peace,” Scholz told news outlet Politico in an […]
More than two months after the fall of former ruler Bashar al-Assad, an international conference in Paris will explore ways to achieve a political transition in Syria on Thursday. In addition to the host, France, representatives from Germany, Turkey, the U.S., the Arab states, the United Nations and the European Union are expected to attend. […]
South Korea’s suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol will get another hearing next week before judges decide on whether to formally remove him from office over his martial law decree, the country’s Constitutional Court said Thursday. The former prosecutor has remained defiant throughout weeks of hearings, blaming a “malicious” opposition for his December bid to suspend […]
Libya’s minister for cabinet affairs, Adel Juma, was wounded in an attempted assassination in the capital Tripoli on Wednesday, the Government of National Unity said in a statement. The UN-recognised GNU, which is based in Tripoli, condemned the attack and said Juma was “in stable condition” after “shots were fired at his car” by an […]
The British government on Wednesday said it was toughening immigration rules to make it almost impossible for undocumented migrants who arrive on small boats to later receive citizenship. Under new guidance migrants arriving by sea, or hidden in the back of vehicles will normally be refused citizenship. “This guidance further strengthens measures to make it […]
Bangladesh’s former government was behind systematic attacks and killings of protesters as it tried to hold onto power last year, the UN said Wednesday, warning the abuses could amount to “crimes against humanity”. Before Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was toppled in a student-led revolution last August, her government cracked down on protesters and others, including […]
