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Search crews have rescued 316 people on board the MV Trisha Kerstin 3, but at least 28 people are still missing after it sank in the southern Philippines overnight

Chinese lending to Africa dropped by nearly half to US$2.1 billion in 2024 compared with the previous year, according to a new report. The fall, from US$3.9 billion in 2023, was part of a decade-long trend. Lending had been on an upwards trajectory since 2006 and peaked between 2012 and 2018 – a period that saw the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative when lending passed the US$10 billion mark each year. At its height, in 2016, Beijing lent US$28.8 billion, but the total has not passed the...

A miniseries production team in China has come under fire for allowing a baby to be exposed to heavy rain during filming. On January 17, Chinese actress Xing Yun criticised the crew she worked with last year for mistreating the infant. In a video clip, Xing’s character, a businesswoman, sees a mother and her baby caught in the rain and offers them both an umbrella and money. Xing recalled that the night was particularly cold and torrential rain was created by a water truck. The baby, carried by...

Three men died when the train derailed in Aberdeenshire after hitting a landslide in 2020.

Second fatal shooting an 'inflection point' says Tim Walz as protests spread over Saturday's shooting of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Geoffrey Mason, who had a five-decade career in sports television and was best known as the coordinating producer for ABC's coverage of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games hostage crisis, has died.

The Timberwolves held a moment of silence for Alex Pretti, the man killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis.

Thailand’s most popular political figure Pita Limjaroenrat has exhorted the public to fight apathy and vote in droves at a February 8 election for his reformist party, which remains the biggest threat to the power of the country’s entrenched elite. Pita led the reformist People’s Party – then called Move Forward – to win the last election in 2023 on a record 76 per cent voter turnout, stunning the establishment as it gobbled up seats from political dynasties and surged into the heartlands of...

A former People’s Liberation Army soldier has been sentenced to eight months in prison for illegally carrying passengers in his Tesla Model S luxury sedan using a ride-hailing platform while in Hong Kong as a tourist. Fanling Court on Monday heard that Zeng Yulin, 39, travelled to Hong Kong from Shenzhen between June and August last year to offer paid rides using online mapping service Amap, earning more than HK$73,000 (US$9,400) in two months. He told Acting Principal Magistrate Veronica Heung...

The US military is increasing materiel deliveries and intelligence sharing with Nigeria, Africom's deputy commander told AFP, as part of a broader American push to work with African militaries to go after Islamic State-linked militants.

Thousands of people rallied in cities across Australia demanding justice and rights for Indigenous peoples on Monday, a national holiday marking the 1788 arrival of a British fleet in Sydney Harbour.

Por KATE BRUMBACK y JULIE WALKER La semana laboral en Estados Unidos comenzó con más nevadas en el noreste hacia el final de una colosal tormenta invernal que llevó hielo y cortes de energía, carreteras intransitables, vuelos cancelados y un frío gélido a gran parte del sur y este de Estados Unidos. Las intensas nevadas […]