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The global gaze is intensely focused on the upcoming United States presidential election. There is intrigue from all corners of the world. Revelations from insiders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) suggest that there is a prevailing belief within its ranks that Donald Trump will secure the presidency in the November 2024 election. In anticipation […]
Hong Kong’s main technology park operator and Saudi Arabia’s start-up incubator have agreed to collaborate, giving fintech companies in the city access to financing from a Middle East fund to pursue their growth ambitions. Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks (HKSTP) and Beta Lab signed an agreement in Riyadh on Tuesday as the annual Future […]
Asian markets mostly rose Tuesday with investors looking ahead to the release of US economic data and the earnings reports of tech titans this week. Oil prices steadied following sharp falls Monday on relief that Israel’s strikes on Iran spared the country’s energy infrastructure and that the risk of escalation in the Middle East had […]
The International Union for Conservation of Nature says tree species are at risk of extinction in 192 countries. More than one in three species of trees are at risk of extinction worldwide, threatening life as we know it on Earth, according to a report published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red […]
Hong Kong finance chief Paul Chan has departed for Saudi Arabia, leading a delegation from the finance and innovation and technology sectors on a four-day trip to “strengthen and deepen” Middle East ties. Financial Secretary Paul Chan speaks at the Cathay Pacific Hong Kong-Riyadh route launch ceremony, on October 28, 2024. Photo: GovHK. Chan left […]
Israeli protesters have interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech during a memorial to remember the victims of the October 7 attack as the Gaza ceasefire talks restarted in Doha, Qatar. Netanyahu stood motionless at a podium during the ceremony on Sunday as audience members in the crowd shouted, interrupting him for more than a […]
Addressing the Synod Assembly on Saturday evening, Pope Francis highlighted how the Final Document, written over the course of the 2nd Session of the Synod on Synodality that began on Oct. 2 following a process of listening and dialogue, is the fruit of over three years of listening to the People of God. It reveals, […]
Israeli medical teams work at the scene where a truck rammed into pedestrians at a bus stop in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, October 27, 2024. REUTERS/Itai Ron Israeli police work at the scene where a truck rammed into pedestrians at a bus stop in Ramat Hasharon, Israel, October 27, 2024. REUTERS/Itai Ron JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Dozens […]
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel attacked military targets in Iran with a series of pre-dawn airstrikes Saturday in retaliation for the barrage of ballistic missiles the Islamic Republic fired upon Israel earlier in the month. The Israeli military said its aircraft targeted facilities that Iran used to make the missiles fired at Israel as […]
Israel has launched airstrikes on Iran in a retaliatory attack that could push the Middle East closer to a regional war. Explosions were reported around Tehran, in the early hours of Saturday, as Israeli jets struck what were described as “military targets” in the country. Follow our live blog on events in the Middle East. […]