Chinese drug firms backed by global banks found using leopards and pangolins parts, group says
Three top Chinese pharmaceutical companies, which are backed by top global banks, are using endangered animal parts in their medicines, according to an investigation by an environmental protection group.
2023-10-23 15:23
Names written on children's bodies speak to the fears of Gazan parents amid the Israel-Hamas war
The bodies of three children lie on a steel tray inside what appears to be a Gaza hospital morgue, one leg of their trousers pushed up to reveal writing in black ink on their skin.
2023-10-23 15:21
Trickle of aid enters Gaza as Israel ramps up airstrikes and Palestinian deaths keep mounting
A second convoy of desperately needed aid entered Gaza on Sunday as Israel widened its offensive against Hamas and its regional enemies, intensifying airstrikes on the besieged enclave, targeting the occupied West Bank and striking Hezbollah cells in Lebanon.
2023-10-23 14:28
Israel warns Gaza airstrikes will intensify and hits West Bank ahead of war's 'next stage'
Israel's military vowed to increase airstrikes on Gaza and struck Hamas targets in the occupied West Bank as it signaled it was readying for a new phase of war against the Palestinian militant group, including a potential ground incursion.
2023-10-22 16:25
China and Philippines accuse each other over collisions in disputed South China Sea
China and the Philippines on Sunday accused each other of causing collisions in a disputed area of the South China Sea, the latest in a string of maritime confrontations between the two countries that have heightened regional tensions.
2023-10-22 16:21
Palestinian aid worker describes 'really dire' conditions for those who have stayed in northern Gaza
Lit by the ghostly glow of a rapidly depleting mobile phone light, Mahmoud Shalabi says conditions in northern Gaza have become "really dire" without adequate access to medicine, clean water, electricity or safe passage after nearly two weeks of Israeli bombardment.
2023-10-21 19:21
Pakistan's former leader Nawaz Sharif returns after nearly four years in self-exile
Nawaz Sharif, the fugitive former prime minister of Pakistan, has returned to the South Asian nation after nearly four years in self-exile, stirring up the country's already fraught political scene as it awaits what is expected to be a tumultuous national election.
2023-10-21 17:45
Hamas releases two hostages as questions deepen about delayed aid and looming incursion
The release of two American hostages from Gaza, the first since Hamas launched its brutal attack on Israel, has deepened questions about the fate of roughly 200 other hostages should Israeli troops go into the enclave where humanitarian conditions are growing ever more dire.
2023-10-21 13:20
The US is dangerously close to being pulled into a Middle East war
A US navy ship intercepts missiles launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen. Two American bases in Syria come under fire. In Iraq, drones and rockets fired at US forces.
2023-10-20 19:50
China restricts exports of graphite as it escalates a global tech war
China has unveiled plans to restrict exports of graphite, a mineral used to make steel and batteries for electric vehicles, on national security grounds, the the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Customs said on Friday.
2023-10-20 18:49
China's arrest of Japanese man could unsettle foreign firms even more
China has formally arrested a Japanese man who was detained in March, according to officials from Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and the Japanese Embassy in Beijing.
2023-10-20 16:51
Gaza conditions worsen by the hour as fresh wave of protests expected across Middle East
Fresh protests against Israel's siege of Gaza are expected across much of the Middle East on Friday as aid agencies warned hospitals in the enclave are running out of fuel amid fears life-saving aid will be still stuck in Egypt for another day.
2023-10-20 16:28