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Hong Kong is caught in the middle of the trade disputes between the U.S. and China despite being a free port. The former British colony has trade and customs policies different from mainland China's.(Image credit: Chan Long Hei) Article Attribution | Read More at...

Hamas is rejecting a new Israeli proposal to pause the war in Gaza, a Hamas official told NPR. Earlier, officials mediating talks had expressed optimism that a deal could be reached within weeks.(Image credit: OMAR AL-QATTAA) Article Attribution | Read More at Article...

In his fifteen years as prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban has steadily chipped away at his country's democratic freedoms. We go to Budapest to see what the erosion of democracy looks like and we find that may of Orban's strategies are being studied by...

Images of Sudan, after two years of civil war have led to the world biggest humanitarian crisis. Article Attribution | Read More at Article Source

Angry Nigerians are turning to social media to describe how they have been locked out of their accounts on the digital financial platform, CBEX.People have posted videos of themselves crying, saying that they could not withdraw their investments and worried that their...

The Vatican has put Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí on the path to sainthood in recognition of his "heroic virtues".Gaudí - who has been dubbed by some as "God's architect" - is the designer of one of Spain's most famous religious sites and tourist attractions, the...

A hairdresser from St Petersburg has been given a jail term of five years and two months on a charge of spreading fake news about the Russian army.Anna Alexandrova denied posting eight anti-war messages on social media, insisting the case was motivated by a squabble...

France's Justice Minister said the government would not give in to "acts of intimidation" after a wave of attacks targeting prisons across the country.On Monday night, vehicles were set alight outside several French prisons and one jail was hit by gunfire, in what...

2 hours agoShareSaveLaura BickerChina correspondentReporting fromGuangzhouShareSave"Trump is a crazy man," says Lionel Xu, who is surrounded by his company's mosquito repellent kits – many were once best sellers in Walmart stores in the United States.Now those...

Peru's former president, Ollanta Humala, has been found guilty of money laundering and sentenced to 15 years in prison.A court in the capital, Lima, said that Humala had accepted illegal funds from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht to bankroll his election...

3 hours agoShareSaveYang Tian & Ian AikmanBBC NewsShareSaveGetty ImagesDonald Trump has again blamed Volodymyr Zelensky for starting the war with Russia – a day after a major Russian attack killed 35 people and injured 117 others in the Ukrainian city of Sumy.The US...

As "pathway to peace talks" are held in London - minus the main protagonists - Sudan tips into a third year of catastrophic civil war, as violence surges in the Darfur region of the west of the country and activists warn of an unfolding genocide.(Image credit: AFP via...