China has started its most expansive military drills in a year around Taiwan, just days after Lai Ching-te took over as the island’s new president.

MPs and protesters quickly voiced opposition to the most serious challenge to the country’s democracy since the 1980s.

Premier Li Qiang’s visit confirmed the mask is back on and the tactics have changed, but China’s strategy has not.

For two days and nights, disgruntled Chinese citizens have staged protests on a scale not seen since 1989.

The ruling clears the way for the first of Trump’s four criminal cases to start as planned on April 15.

The hidden toll of the war on Ukraine’s children is clear as air raid sirens fail to deter the 15 or so girls and boys in a basement classroom.

Of the roughly 20 million books in Harvard University’s libraries, one has long exerted a unique dark fascination, not for its contents, but for the material it was bound in: human skin.

Currently the foreign minister, Jeremiah Manele has pledged to continue the Pacific Island nation’s foreign policy that made it grow close to China.

“I know it sounds devastating, especially to people of the younger generation, but we have to mentally get used to the arrival of a new era,” said the Polish leader.

The annual update to the United Nations' living heritage list includes hawker food, competitive grass mowing and camel racing - but no Australian customs.

Turkish Family Affairs Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya was prevented from entering her country's mission in Rotterdam and escorted to the border by police.

Six people have been charged with spying for China in three separate cases in Britain and England, in a pushback that some say was overdue.

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The trip comes amid and growing public concern about Berlin’s commercial reliance on the global economic powerhouse.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party won a landslide victory in India's most important battleground state, Uttar Pradesh.

A rule change known as Title 42 is unsettling an already chaotic US immigration system, leaving thousands of people in limbo, and politicians pointing fingers at each other.

Beijing said on Sunday that the Chinese military reserved the right to use “necessary means” in response to similar incidents in the future.

In an interview to coincide with Bastille Day, the French President said the country would enter a period of energy sobriety because Russia was weaponising gas supplies.

By the time the balloon became visible in Montana, President Joe Biden had already been briefed and the White House was scrambling to decide whether to blast it from the sky.