China’s top diplomat lashed out at the US, calling President Joe Biden’s decision to shoot a balloon over American air space and the heightened state of alert “incomprehensible and almost hysterical.”
Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said she still lets her hair down when she’s off duty, despite the furor over a video of her partying last year.
Ghanaian professional footballer and former Premier League player Christian Atsu was killed in the massive earthquake that hit Turkey’s southern provinces.
China plans to adopt more differentiated risk weighting measures to limit banks’ lending to toxic investments that are exposed to higher default threats, including those to problematic house developers.
US consumer price and retail sales data this week underscored persistent inflation and robust demand that risk prompting the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates even higher than previously expected.
China Baowu Steel Group Corp., the world’s biggest steelmaker, will seek closer ties with iron ore miner Rio Tinto as China’s demand for the raw material rebounds.
A seismic shift in capital flows is playing out in Europe’s bond and currency markets as investors adjust to a world without central bank stimulus.
Israel’s new government has stepped up US-backed talks with Saudi Arabia on developing closer military and intelligence ties in light of growing concerns about Iran, according to several people familiar with the discussions.
The Pentagon’s top China official has arrived in Taiwan, Reuters reported, amid heightened tensions in the region after the US shot down a balloon it said Beijing was using for spying.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said the country would not invoke a defense treaty with the US and was aiming “to cool the tensions down” after a Chinese ship aimed a laser light at a Philippine vessel in the South China Sea.
