Category: 4. World

Hi, this is Philip Glamann in Beijing, where the questions on everyone’s minds are whether Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump will actually meet next week and if they do, what will come of their talks.

While the sitdown —…

US President Donald Trump will meet his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in South Korea on 30 October on the sidelines of a summit in Asia, the White House has confirmed.

The meeting between Xi and Trump has been in the works for weeks but was…

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It was 3am in Australia when Art Malone received a call telling him his company Graphinex was set for a A$1.3bn ($860mn)…

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Tuesday that more than one million people have returned to Sudan’s war-ravaged capital Khartoum in the past 10 months, while basic services remain severely limited and…

Australian Strategic Materials Ltd. aims to choose a location for its planned US rare earths plant by the end of this year, capitalizing on President Donald Trump’s backing for the sector amid growing rivalry with China.

The firm has been in…

The slow-motion getaway of two thieves from the Louvre clutching €88m (£76m) of France’s crown jewels was captured on video, it has emerged – the latest dramatic twist to the country’s most spectacular heist in decades.

The 36-second…

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – When US President Donald Trump lands in Malaysia for Southeast Asia’s headline summit this weekend, he will be delivering Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim a diplomatic coup.

US presidents rarely visit Malaysia, a…

As Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi visited Brussels for the first official summit between Egypt and the European Union, the bloc unlocked billions in EU aid and investments to strengthen economic cooperation with the country, a key…