New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins isn’t concerned that a renewed partnership agreement between the US and Papua New Guinea represents militarization of the Indo-Pacific region.
Heading into the G-7 summit, the US and its allies knew they needed to do more to win over global swing nations also courted by China and Russia. The weekend meeting in Japan showed they face a long road ahead.
Australia’s government moved to regulate buy now, pay later finance firms under credit laws, drawing the line on a months-long process aimed at tightening requirements on the maturing industry.
Instagram, the popular photo-sharing app owned by Meta Platforms Inc., appeared to suffer an outage Sunday evening in the US, with tens of thousands of users reporting that they could not access the service.
Mexico raised its alert level on the Popocatepetl volcano Sunday following in increase in tremors and explosions of ash that shuttered airports in nearby Mexico City and Puebla.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil failed to hold one-on-one talks while attending a summit in Japan, even as Ukraine seeks to engage countries in the Global South on taking a harder line against Russia for its war.
The extreme heat that’s been scorching Asia in recent weeks has produced one clear beneficiary — Russia.
Five of Japan’s automotive CEOs back their biggest peer in seeing hydrogen and other alternatives as necessary to reach carbon neutrality.
London homes used to fly off the shelves even before they were built. Now the city has lost its crown as the hub for off-plan deals, as investors hunt for richer returns outside the capital.
What happened in cash-strapped Hegang points to a long economic slog for the rest of the country.
