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Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday put up a spirited defence of NATO after French President Emmanuel Macron’s criticism, saying Germany has a bigger interest today in ensuring the bloc stays together than even during the Cold War. Days before leaders of the transatlantic alliance are due to hold a summit, Merkel said NATO has been […]

Washington DC has joined the states of New York and California in suing Juul labs, the United States’ largest electronic cigarette manufacturer, for targeting youngsters with its marketing campaigns. The vaping industry faces intense scrutiny for an epidemic of lung ailments that has killed more than 40 people and sickened over 2,000 in recent months, […]

Beijing on Wednesday accused developed countries including the US of doing too little to curb global warming, ahead of a UN summit discussing controversial issues including climate compensation. China is the world’s second-largest economy and the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, but has repeatedly argued that developed nations should lead on tackling international climate obligations. […]

Seven Islamist extremists have been sentenced to death by a Bangladesh court over a savage 2016 attack that killed 22 people including 18 foreigners at a Dhaka cafe popular with Westerners. A special anti-terrorism tribunal delivered the verdict in a crowded courtroom in the capital Dhaka, with judge Mojibur Rahman saying the attackers wanted “to […]

A TikTok post by a young woman, pretending to give eyelash curling advice while actually condemning China’s crackdown on Muslims in Xinjiang, has gone viral on the Chinese-owned app that has been accused of censoring anti-Beijing content. The clip by US teen Feroza Aziz, who describes herself as “17 Just a Muslim”, had millions of […]

American pop star Miley Cyrus and Cody Simpson are still dating although there were claims that the couple has broken up. Sun Online among other news sources reported that Miley Cyrus ended her relationship with Cody Simpson to focus on herself after divorcing from estranged husband Liam Hemsworth. E! News reported later that the rumours […]

Elsa Pataky, Liam Hemsworth’s sister-in-law seems happy that Miley Cyrus is no longer part of the family. She said that her husband Chris’ younger brother ‘deserves much better’ than his ex. For Liam Hemsworth’s sister-in-law Elsa Pataky and his ex Miley Cyrus, there’s no love lost. Elsa, 43 is happily married to Liam’s older brother […]

Singapore’s number one power couple, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his wife, Ho Ching, the Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings, displayed a softer side in recent photos taken in South Korea, where PM Lee is currently attending the ASEAN summit meetings. The Prime Minister, who is known to take and post photos of […]

by Patrick Galey with Marlowe Hood The world will miss its chance to avert climate disaster without an immediate and all-but-impossible fall in fossil fuel emissions, the UN said Tuesday in its annual assessment on greenhouse gases. The United Nations Environment Programme said that global emissions need to fall by 7.6 percent, each year, every […]

Officials at a Hong Kong university where police and protesters clashed violently a week ago said Tuesday they had searched the entire campus and found just one remaining holdout in a sign the campus siege may be near an end. Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) emerged as the epicentre of the territory’s increasingly violent protest […]

by M. Jegathesan An Australian grandmother won her final appeal against a death sentence for trafficking in Malaysia on Tuesday and walked free, after claiming she fell for an online love scam and was tricked into transporting drugs. Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto looked delighted and kissed her lawyer in court after the ruling, which brings […]

China has summoned the US ambassador to demand that the United States scrap legislation backing Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, or “bear all the consequences”, the foreign ministry said Tuesday. The Hong Kong bill awaiting President Donald Trump’s signature supports human rights and democracy in the city, while threatening to revoke the territory’s special economic status. […]

Australian police have opened an investigation into explosive claims by a self-styled Chinese spy who defected Down Under with an apparent trove of sensitive intelligence. The Australian Federal Police announced the probe and is expected to interview Wang Liqiang over his claims that Chinese intelligence tried to interfere with Australian politics. Wang fled to Australia […]

Singers and celebrity couple Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello were thinking about the singers who have inspired them, including Demi Lovato. And they thanked him a sweet way. Demi Lovato shared the love in an Instagram story after receiving a bouquet that Mendes and Cabello sent her. With the flowers came the note that the […]

Before delivering a baby most mothers would be nervous but Ada Choi was the definition of calm. The Hong Kong actress was so cheerful that she bantered with husband Max Zhang in the maternity room before she gave birth to their third child in the hospital last week. 46-year-old Ada asked her husband in Mandarin […]