Britain has pledged drones, fighter jets and a warship to the multinational mission to protect shipping vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. Britain’s Defense Secretary John Healey announced the package Tuesday during a virtual summit of more than 40 nations involved in the defensive mission to protect freedom of navigation through the important energy maritime […]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres noted that African countries face borrowing costs that ​are twice as high on average as advanced industrialised economies. “That is not a ​market verdict on Africa. It is a verdict on the injustices of the system,” he told the summit. Decrying what they say are biases against them ​that overstate the […]

President Donald Trump will be accompanied by 16 senior executives of U.S. companies for his trip to Beijing to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The White House on Monday shared a list of the executives, which include Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple’s Tim Cook, BlackRock’s Larry Fink and Boeing’s Kelly Ortberg, among others. Cisco CEO […]

The Philippines’ House of Representatives impeached Vice President Sara Duterte on Monday—for the second time—over accusations of unexplained wealth, misuse of state funds, and threats to have her former ally President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. assassinated. The second impeachment came more than nine months after the country’s Supreme Court voided the first over a constitutional […]

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