14+ hour, 6+ min ago  (935+ words) Just over a year after President'Donald Trump'promised the US was entering a "golden age," Americans are expressing unprecedented pessimism about the state of the economy. Gallup on Tuesday'released'a poll showing that 55% of Americans say their personal finances are getting worse,…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1084+ words) On October 21 in Astana, Presidents Ilham Aliyev and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev used a meeting of the bilateral Supreme Interstate Council and a paired...

10+ hour, 34+ min ago  (836+ words) The case for South Korea hedging its relationship with the United States may have become harder to dismiss. Washington's trade policies and the economic consequences of the US-Israeli war on Iran have raised the cost of close alignment at the…...

14+ hour, 55+ min ago  (782+ words) Taiwanese pop music superstar Jay Chou, known in Mandarin as Zhou Jielun (), has put Australia's Sovereign Hill on the map. A nationally renowned tourist attraction in Golden Point, a suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Sovereign Hill is an open-air museum that…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (784+ words) An exchange of'gunfire'between an armed suspect and law enforcement outside the'White House'Correspondents" Dinner on Saturday came days ahead of a deadline for extending far-reaching government surveillance powers, and President'Donald Trump'wasted no time in claiming that the attempted attack on the…...

1+ day, 38+ min ago  (1050+ words) China's rapid rise in science has hit a milestone. The country's investment in research and development has reached parity with " and by purchasing power measures has surpassed " that of the United States, according to a March 2026 report from the Organisation…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1316+ words) BANGKOK " As the United States struggles to find an early exit from the prospect of yet another forever war in the Middle East, recent weeks have seen its...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (777+ words) There is a recurring temptation in American foreign policy to treat legal argument as a substitute for strategic thought. The controversy over Operation Epic Fury has yielded a remarkable specimen of this tendency. That the United States acted outside the…...

1+ day, 53+ min ago  (1095+ words) China has vowed to safeguard domestic enterprises after the United States imposed sanctions on a Dalian-based oil refiner and several Hong Kong-registered shipping firms over alleged involvement in the Iranian oil trade and shipments. The US Treasury Department's Office of…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (899+ words) In Ukraine, spring brings hope for new crops after the long cold winter and every year since the Russian invasion in 2022 it has brought new questions about which side might seize the initiative as confrontation on the battlefield is renewed....