Chinese President Xi Jinping held discussions with the leaders of Slovakia and Namibia in Beijing during July, as well as meeting the heads of Cambodia, Thailand and Kazakhstan in Shanghai on the sidelines of the World AI Conference. Xi also hosted North Korean Premier Pak Thaesong in Beijing following his state visit and meeting with North Korean leader ...

A state of emergency has been declared in parts of Crete and elsewhere in Greece as firefighters battle intense wildfires, with hurricane-force winds fanning flames

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Madison police arrest 1 in disturbance at protest encampment

By tying Israel to the Republican right, he shattered bipartisan consensus that sustained its most important alliance.

European football's governing body has voted to boycott FIFA if World Cup plans pursued, but global body undeterred.

The US State Department acknowledged 'an unfortunate error' after the highly inaccurate African map caused a stir.

Trumpism, corporate deregulation and biometric surveillance are converging into a new model of control in the region.

A powerful earthquake that struck southern Japan this week has exposed the vulnerability of the countrys manufacturing supply chains, a decade after a devastating quake in the same region triggered widespread industry disruption. Tuesdays 7.1-magnitude quake claimed at least 34 lives, ruptured roads and cut off utilities to thousands of households. It also ...

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A British man is accused of carrying out hostile surveillance at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus before allegedly passing information to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp.

Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni called on Thursday for Spain's suspension from the EU's visa-free Schengen travel zone after thousands of migrants entered the Spanish exclave of Ceuta adjoining Morocco.

A super typhoon named after Hong Kongs Chinese white dolphins is set to bring very hot weather to the city in the latter part of next week, according to the Observatory. Super Typhoon Dolphin, currently over the western North Pacific, is expected to move towards the waters south of Japan in the next few days, although its subsequent trajectory remains ...

18 people died on Thursday trying to enter Ceuta in North Africa

New York Forest Rangers responded to a series of rescues across the Adirondacks in June, helping dehydrated hikers, treating medical emergencies, locating lost visitors and tackling a wildfire. Several incidents were linked to hot weather, prompting officials to remind people to carry enough water, prepare properly and follow hiking safety guidelines.

Texas A&M engineers are developing fish-like nano-robots to harvest lithium from seawater. These autonomous microscopic robots use specialised particles activated by light for movement. This innovative approach offers a sustainable alternative to traditional land-based mining methods.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Snchez on Friday planned to head to the country's north African enclave of Ceuta after thousands of illegal migrants crossed the frontier.

Hong Kong authorities have backtracked on plans to require hotels to provide fire escape hoods in guest rooms and other spaces after industry leaders expressed concerns, and have said they will only encourage the equipments usage at this stage. The Home Affairs Department said on Thursday evening that it would only encourage the supply of fire escape hoods ...

Mayor Katie Wilson said she and Shon Barnes agreed that Sayles should be the interim chief while the city looks for a candidate.

On July 31, 1974, Watergate figure John Ehrlichman was sentenced to prison for his role in the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist.

Rescue crews searching for 10 missing mountaineers following an avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak mountain found four bodies, officials said Friday.

This report was translated from Chinese into English using Alibabas Qwen3.7-Plus, then checked and tweaked for accuracy by a South China Morning Post journalist. It is for reference only, and is not the official English version of the original Chinese document. Alibaba owns the SCMP.

A Malaysian pilot who tested positive for meth, MDMA, and cocaine after flying a passenger plane to Indonesia risked the death penalty for allegedly smuggling more than 70,000 Ecstasy tablets in his suitcase, officials said on Friday. The 39-year-old pilot, identified only by his initials, MSO, was arrested on Wednesday at Jakartas Soekarno-Hatta ...

Actor Dean Cain turns 60 and musician Zac Brown turns 48, among the famous birthdays for July 31.

The new findings suggest modern-day humans are the result of thousands of years of interbreeding between various groups of primates called hominis - but only one survives today: Homo sapiens