Russia on Wednesday vetoed a United Nations resolution that proposed a ban on the use of nuclear weapons in outer space amid US intelligence-backed concerns that Moscow is trying to develop a nuclear device capable of destroying satellites.
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A Chinese student in the US has been sentenced to nine months in prison for stalking and threatening a female Chinese student who put up pro-democracy fliers on campus.
The fliers, put up at the Berklee College of Music in Boston in late 2022, read: (...)
The US Senate has approved a $95bn (£76bn) foreign aid package that includes military support for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
President Joe Biden is expected to sign the legislation into law on Wednesday.
The Senate on Tuesday evening backed the (...)
The US Senate has approved a controversial landmark bill that could see TikTok banned in America.
It gives TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, nine months to sell its stake or the app will be blocked in the United States.
The bill will now be handed (...)
A prominent German far-right lawmaker said on Wednesday that he will dismiss an assistant who was arrested on suspicion of spying for China, but will remain his party's top candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections.
Maximilian Krah's (...)
European Union officials have raided the offices of a Chinese company as part of a probe into subsidies, exposing rising tensions between the bloc and one of its biggest trading partners.
The European Commission said Tuesday that it carried out (...)
US President Joe Biden has signed a $95bn (£76bn) package of aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
"It's going to make America safer, it's going to make the world safer," he said after signing the bill into law.
The president said the US would "right (...)
German police on Monday arrested an aide to a far-right MEP on suspicion of spying for China.
The man, named as Jian G., is publicly listed as an accredited assistant to Maximilian Krah, MEP and leading candidate for the far-right party Alternative (...)
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has promised billions more for defense to counter threats from "an axis of authoritarian states".
The prime minister said UK military spending would rise to 2.5% of national income by 2030, in a move that hardens a (...)
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is eyeing a historic third consecutive term in general elections being held in April and May.
A nationwide poll by India Today magazine last August showed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader's popularity (...)
China has accused the United States of "stoking military confrontation" with the recent deployment of a powerful missile launcher capable of firing weapons with a range of up to 1,600 kilometers to exercises in the Philippines.
The presence of the (...)
Authorities have evacuated nearly 60,000 people from their homes in Guangdong, as days of heavy rain caused massive flooding in China's most populous province.
Eleven people have gone missing, while no casualties have been reported so far.
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Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu's party has won a landslide victory in a parliamentary election, cementing his grip on power.
Provisional results show the People's National Congress (PNC) won 66 seats in the 93-member house.
Analysts view the (...)
In a slick video marking National Security Education Day, China's top spy agency has a stern message for Chinese people: foreign spies are everywhere.
As ominous music plays, a broad-faced, beady-eyed man disguises himself as a street fashion (...)
German authorities say they have arrested three people on suspicion of spying for China.
The main suspect, named as Thomas R, is accused of spying for the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS).
Prosecutors allege his network operated a front (...)
wrapped up its 'Discover NEOM' China tour with a significant event in Hong Kong at M+ in the West Kowloon Cultural District, organized in collaboration with the Belt and Road Office of the Hong Kong government.
The event featured a series of (...)
MADINAH — The first batch of Iranian pilgrims arrived on Monday at Prince Muhammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Madinah on their way to Makkah to perform Umrah, after a hiatus of nine years. Iranian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ali Reza (...)
A UK parliamentary researcher and another man have been charged with spying for China after allegedly providing information which could be "useful to an enemy".
Christopher Cash, 29, the researcher, and Christopher Berry, 32, were charged under the (...)
TikTok said a potential ban on its app in the US would "trample the free speech" of 170 million Americans.
The US House of Representatives voted on Saturday to ban TikTok if the app's owner does not cut its ties with China.
The legislation was part (...)
On a blustery morning last month, volunteer Adriana Jasso raised the flaps to a tent propped up against the massive steel bars of the fence that straddles this stretch of the US-Mexico border.
On her side, plastic tables were piled with apples, (...)
The House of Representatives has finally approved billions of dollars in new US military aid for Ukraine to help combat Russia's invasion.
The much-delayed measure had vocal opponents in Congress and it took a fragile bipartisan deal to get the (...)
After months of delay, the House of Representatives is due to vote on tens of billions of dollars in US military aid for Ukraine and Israel.
Both measures have vocal opponents in Congress, and their hopes of passage have hinged on a fragile (...)
Polls opened Friday in the first and largest phase of India's marathon election, in which populist Prime Minister Narendra Modi is widely expected to secure a rare third consecutive term and deepen his historic transformation of the world's most (...)
The day after the stabbing attack on a bishop, a forensics expert was sweeping a fingerprint brush over a nativity scene by the entrance of the Sydney church.
A small car parked outside Christ The Good Shepherd Church had its window screen smashed (...)