HONG KONG – China has completed the first phase of construction on Antelope Reef in the Paracels archipelago, building a man-made island in the hotly-disputed South China Sea that analysts…
Los Angeles – Mark Perlmutter has treated patients hit by natural disaster and conflicts across 30 countries, including in his native United States. Yet, nothing prepared him for the horrors…
New large language models like Moonshot’s Kimi K3 have dominated the debate about China’s artificial intelligence ambitions. Yet the clearest evidence of the country’s prowess may be in video, and…
OSAKA – Police arrested a former manager at Takenaka on Wednesday for suspected breach of trust involving a construction project for the Grand Ring, a symbol of last year’s World…
Cesenatico, Italy – From a fishing trawler in the Adriatic, Italian scientists gently release thousands of tiny octopuses in the hope of fighting an invasive crab species that has devastated…
Jerusalem – Alma Ronen has been fighting in the Israeli military nearly constantly for more than two years. Spending her Saturday not in uniform but in a T-shirt and jeans,…
TikTok is exploring a feature that would allow users to send money to each other in direct messages, in a move that would extend the social media app’s push into…
LG Energy Solution is considering supplying the U.S. government and major defense contractors with batteries for drones and other unmanned weapons systems, to capture growing demand for military hardware as…
Japan's foreign ministry said on Wednesday that U.S. sanctions on the International Criminal Court and its president, Judge Tomoko Akane, were "very unfortunate." In a statement, the ministry said: "Japan…
ABUJA, NIGERIA – As campaigning for Nigeria’s elections in January begins on Wednesday, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s pitch for a second term faces a politically fraught question: are Nigerians better…