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Macron to meet Biden at G20, hopes to move on after AUKUS dispute
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would meet his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden in Rome at the Group of 20 ...French Catholic Church inquiry finds 216,000 sex abuse victims from 1950
An investigation into sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church has found that an estimated 216,000 children were victims of abuse by ...China property sector default woes deepen amid Evergrande uncertainty
Worries about rising debt defaults by Chinese property developers sapped investor sentiment on Tuesday amid fresh credit rating downgrades and uncertainty about ...Afghanistan to start issuing passports again after months of delays
Afghanistan will start issuing passports to its citizens again on Tuesday after months of delays, a senior official said. Alam Gul Haqqani, ...Thailand joins Asian nations in rush to buy Merck’s COVID-19 pill
Thailand’s government is in talks with Merck & Co to buy 200,000 courses of its experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 treatment, the ...China mounts largest incursion yet near Taiwan, blames U.S. for tensions
China blamed the United States on Monday for increased tensions over Taiwan, as the island fingered Beijing as the “chief culprit” after ...Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp down in global outage
Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms were hit by a massive outage Monday, impacting potentially tens of millions of users as ...Prophet Mohammed cartoonist dies in car crash
Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who lived under police protection after his 2007 depiction of the Prophet Mohammed prompted death threats, died Sunday ...Pandora Papers: Document dump allegedly links world leaders to secret wealth
A massive leak of financial documents was published by several major news organisations on Sunday (Oct 3) that allegedly tie world leaders ...Russia test fires submarine-launched hypersonic Tsirkon missile for first time
Russia said on Monday it had successfully test launched a Tsirkon (Zircon) hypersonic cruise missile from a submarine for the first time, ...