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William Lai urges Taiwanese to unite in the face of ‘the expansion of China’s authoritarianism’, in first comments since taking party leadershipAppeasing China will not bring peace, Taiwan’s vice-president has said, days after he was elected head of th…
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that she will not contest this year’s general elections.
Labour leader will stand down no later than 7 February, saying she ‘no longer had enough in the tank’ to do the jobNew Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said she is resigning, in a shock announcement that came as she confirmed a national electi…
Six people accused of publishing book relating to 2019 protests in move critics say has spread terrorPolice in Hong Kong have raided a lunar new year shopping fair and arrested six people for selling a “seditious” book related to the 2019 anti-governme…
High court in Japan agreed defendants could not have predicted the massive tsunami that crippled the power plant and triggered a nuclear meltdownThree former executives from the company that operates the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant have had…
Philippine Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and her news site Rappler were acquitted by a court of tax evasion charges on Wednesday, a judge said, handing Ressa a victory in a case the veteran journalist has described as part of a pattern of harassment.
Latest Black Panther and Ant-Man superhero flicks get February release in country famously controlling over Hollywood moviesChina has ended its de facto ban on Marvel films, with superhero flicks Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Ant-Man and The Wasp:…
Senior UN officials have arrived in Kabul for talks as the United Nations chief voiced concern over the Taliban’s creation of “gender-based apartheid,” a UN spokesman said Tuesday.
France is extremely worried about the health of a French-Irish citizen held in Iran since October 2022, who relatives say is on hunger strike, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ‘submitted resignation from assigned positions, quit job and retired’, say reportsVietnam’s president has resigned after days of rumours he was about to be sacked as part of an anti-corruption drive that has led to several minister…