When Russian troops poured into Ukraine over a year ago, many experts foresaw a strategic windfall for China, with the United States distracted again by a war far from Asia. Now, Beijing is increasingly alarmed that the Western bloc backing Ukraine is …

Bloomberg
(Bloomberg) — In 2021, a remote coal town in northeastern China was forced to undergo an unprecedented financial restructuring. Its struggles since are an ominous sign for President Xi Jinping as other heavily indebted municipalities lo…

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate's top Democrat said on Tuesday he and President Joe Biden's administration were engaging allies and businesses to address China's ban on sales of memory chips made by U.S.-based&#82…

[1/2] Committee chairman U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) listens during a House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party meeting on "Taiwan Tabletop Exercise (TTX)," a war games…

Typically regarded as the fare of broke students, instant noodles are also adored by gourmands and chefs – US chef and restaurateur David Chang even named his Momofuku group after Momofuku Ando, the late inventor of instant ramen and the founder of Nis…

SYDNEY – At an indoor stadium at Sydney Olympic Park – a venue that typically hosts concerts by stars such as Michael Buble and Lizzo – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday night received a rapturous welcome from 20,000 people that appeared t…

[1/2] Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra attends a press conference after talks with his Chinese counterpart Qin Gang in Beijing, China, May 23, 2023. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/Pool
BEIJING, May 23 (Reuters) – Safeguarding the Dutch economy and cyb…

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Earlier this spring, on the steppes of southwestern Ontario, federal and provincial pols gathered to announce that Volkswagen would soon begin constructing a mammoth electric vehicle battery pla…

Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael is among those calling for the government to investigate BGI (Aaron Chown/PA)
A Chinese company selling pregnancy tests in the UK must be investigated over the potential risk that expectant mothers’ genetic data …

That dress
No, Natalie Portman did not rob The Metropolitan Museum of Art. There were spontaneous combustions among fashionistas when Natalie Portman, attending the premiere of Todd Haynes’s future camp classic May December, arrived in a Juno dress on …

Beijing has made diplomatic protests to Britain after the prime minister used the G7 summit this weekend to single out China as the "biggest threat to global security and prosperity of our age".…
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DeSantis' expected presidential run likely won't include personal jabs against Trump. A man was arrested and a Nazi flag was seized after a truck crash near the White House. And a volcano causes disruptions as ash rains over Mexico City.&#8…

Thousands of members of Australia’s Indian community have given a rapturous stadium welcome to Anthony Albanese and Narendra Modi as a new centre for Australia-India relations was announced for Sydney’s west.…
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Cooling temperatures have somewhat calmed the wildfire situation in Western Canada, but hazardously poor air quality from excessive smoke besieged much of the region over the holiday weekend. For residents such as Lisa Stewart, a mother o…

MILAN, May 23 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Making the world a greener place through clean energy is hard enough. Doing so while also avoiding human rights violations looks even harder.
Western nations are rushing to install more solar panels to redu…

MOSCOW, May 23 (Reuters) – Uralchem, Russia's biggest potash and ammonium nitrate producer, expects the opening of an ammonia export terminal near the Black Sea to make a pipeline across Ukraine much less important.…
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A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan
Amid all the hand-wringing over the debt ceiling row and background banking anxiety, the U.S. economy is holding up well enough to embolden Federal Reserve hawks once again.…
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The Chinese government has approved Microsoft’s plans to acquire Activision Blizzard.
Echoing the EU’s own decision, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) has greenlit Microsoft’s controversial acquisition of Activision Blizzard ( v…

Equities
Wall Street futures were narrowly mixed early Tuesday after talks to raise the U.S. debt ceiling were described as productive but failed to yield an agreement. Major European markets were mostly lower.…
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Indians gather to celebrate the imminent arrival of the Indian PM . Wolter Peeters
Draped in an Indian scarf, Davinder Sharma had driven up from Melbourne with friends to see Mr Modi.…
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A new grassroots campaign calling for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, to be tried for war crimes represents an escalation in the demand for justice for the people of Ukraine. Already 2 million have signed a petition calling for Putin’s indictmen…