China's movie theaters thrive as economic gloom descends. Hollywood is missing out
China's economy may be in the doldrums, but its movie theaters have enjoyed a record-breaking few months as young women flocked to see home-grown films.
2023-10-16 08:45
Beijing to host global gathering as Xi Jinping lays out China's vision
Chinese leader Xi Jinping is gathering world leaders in Beijing this week for a high profile forum with a clear set of goals: laud China's role backing economic development over the past decade and project its expanding ambitions as an alternative global leader to the United States.
2023-10-16 07:52
'It's so lonely': Desperate families of Israeli hostages are still in the dark a week on from Hamas rampage
The last glimpse Adina Moshe's family saw of her shows the 72-year-old woman on a motorbike, wedged between two Hamas fighters who are kidnapping her from the Nir Oz kibbutz near Gaza.
2023-10-15 15:46
Gaza conditions a 'complete catastrophe,' official warns as Israel prepares for imminent offensive
Conditions in Gaza have deteriorated into a "complete catastrophe," according to one official, with serious shortages of clean water and food as tens of thousands of Palestinians attempt to flee crippling airstrikes and an imminent Israeli ground offensive.
2023-10-15 14:49
US sending second carrier strike group, fighter jets to region as Israel prepares to expand Gaza operations
The Pentagon has ordered a second carrier strike group to the eastern Mediterranean Sea, according to two US officials, and is sending Air Force fighter jets to the region as Israel prepares to expand its Gaza operations.
2023-10-15 11:20
Why is Japan seeking the dissolution of the controversial Unification Church?
Japan's government on Friday asked a court to order the dissolution of the Unification Church branch in Japan following the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in July 2022.
2023-10-15 08:56
Tens of thousands flee south in bombarded Gaza as Israeli troops gather near border
Tens of thousands of people in Gaza have fled their homes after Israel's military issued a stark evacuation order Friday, according to the United Nation's humanitarian body, prompting international alarm as Israeli troops gather by the border and as conditions worsen inside the bombarded strip.
2023-10-14 14:25
Who is El Deif, alleged mastermind of the Hamas' attack?
It is with a weird retrospective guilt that I have to admit: Hamas once saved me from a kidnapping in Gaza.
2023-10-14 12:57
New Zealand votes in a narrow election dominated by economic woes, cost of living crisis
New Zealand goes to the polls Saturday in a general election that's shaping up to be a tight race between the two major parties, with the economy and a cost of living crisis dominating campaigning nine months after former prime minister Jacinda Ardern suddenly resigned.
2023-10-14 04:53
UK removes final hurdle to Microsoft's blockbuster Activision Blizzard deal
UK antitrust officials have approved Microsoft's planned takeover of Activision Blizzard, the maker of "Call of Duty" and other hit games, greenlighting one of the biggest tech deals of all time.
2023-10-13 17:22
Israel calls on 1.1 million Gazans to evacuate south in order UN warns is 'impossible'
Israel's military has warned 1.1 million people living in northern Gaza to evacuate their homes, amid signs Israel is set to ramp up its retaliatory offensive against Hamas following the group's October 7 terror attacks.
2023-10-13 15:52
Thai deaths in Hamas massacre spotlight poor agricultural workers from Asia who toil in Israel's fields
Like his father Chumporn and dozens of other able-bodied men from their village in northeast Thailand, Manee Jirachart moved to Israel in search of work, dreaming of a better life.
2023-10-13 12:27