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Iran would be willing to “dilute” its 60 percent-enriched uranium if the US lifts “all sanctions”, the head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization said Monday, without specifying whether this meant all sanctions against his country or only those im…
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Monday her party’s thumping election win showed that the public recognises the urgent need for major policy reforms as she prepares to push sweeping conservative legislation that will shift Japanese secur…
Hong Kong’s most prominent China critic, media tycoon Jimmy Lai, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in jail under the city’s controversial national security law, in what rights groups condemned as “effectively a death sentence” and a symbol of the ci…
Exclusive: Home Office ruling means thousands more Hongkongers will be eligible to come to the UK over next five yearsMinisters have opened up visas to thousands more people from Hong Kong in the wake of the 20-year prison sentence handed down to the p…
Prime minister’s Liberal Democratic party to be pressed on promised tax cuts and fiscal stimulus plansBusiness live – latest updatesJapan’s stock market has hit a record high after Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic party (LDP) secured a comprehensive…
This blog is closedFull report: Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years over national security chargesFollowing Jimmy Lai’s sentencing, the 78-year old former media mogul smiled and waved at the public gallery, the New York Times reports. According to the out…
Australian white supremacist tells NZ court he was suffering from ‘nervous exhaustion’ when he entered his guilty plea in March 2020 The Australian white supremacist who murdered 51 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch in 2019, in the wors…
Family of media tycoon say he will ‘die a martyr behind bars’ amid widespread criticism from press freedom groupsJimmy Lai, the media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for national securit…
Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, a steadfast critic of Beijing, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Monday in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city’s dissent.
An Iranian court has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to six years in jail on charges of “gathering and collusion to commit crimes,” her lawyer said Sunday, adding that she was also banned from leaving the country and ordered into i…