Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico ‘will survive’ the assassination attempt that put him in surgery with life-threatening injuries, a minister says.
Was it guitar-hero time? Or a tone-deaf attempt at wartime solidarity? US Secretary of State Antony Blinken garnered some mixed reviews in the Ukrainian capital after busting out his ’80s-rock chops at a Kyiv bar.
Unprecedented logistics centre in Latin America financed by Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative is locked in a legal battle over its operation.
Three indigenous Kanak and a police official have been killed in the violence that broke out after an electoral reform bill was adopted by lawmakers in Paris.
The real estate mogul and former LA Dodgers owner says he’s putting together a consortium to buy the app from China-based ByteDance.
The bill would prevent federal agencies from contracting with five Chinese biotech companies – BGI Group, MGI, Complete Genomics, Wuxi AppTec, and Wuxi Biologics.
Robert Fico returned as PM of Slovakia, which is a member of the EU and Nato, for the fourth time last year after shifting political gears to appeal to a changing electorate.
Grantees of her support hope she puts another US$12.5 billion towards issues like closing the gender pay gap and increasing women’s political participation.
At a meeting in Geneva on Tuesday, officials from both countries affirm commitment to reduce AI risks and improve world governance.
US commonly sends representatives to the ceremony, but Lai’s ascension to Taiwanese presidency on May 20 comes during unusually tense relations with China.
Sage notched the 11th triumph for poodles of various sizes at Westminster; only wire fox terriers have won more.
A rights group in Mexico, launched by sex workers, is seeking the decriminalisation of sex work, its formal recognition as a job, access to social security for those working online and in person.
Package including tank rounds, mortars and armoured tactical vehicles. It is the first arms shipment after US President Joe Biden warned he may withhold arms to Israel over concerns about a Rafah offensive in southern Gaza.
The United Nations clarifies a fresh breakdown of the death toll in Gaza, after Israel condemned the world body for ‘parroting … Hamas’s propaganda messages’.
Celebrities who have remained silent on the crisis in Gaza are feeling the wrath of angry fans who are blocking them on social media platforms.
A visual guide to modern trench warfare, long-range weapons and the bloody stalemate between Ukraine and Russia.
A visual guide to how the South China Morning Post’s small graphics team creates world-class infographics that get noticed.
The Earth risks ‘dangerous and cascading effects’ of human-generated climate change if we fail to limit the global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Here’s what could happen if temperatures rise beyond that.
A visual guide to the Palestinian territory of Gaza and the war between Israel and Hamas, following the deadly October 7 attack.