The EU parliament on Tuesday announced it had suspended “with immediate effect” a German far-right MEP’s assistant who was arrested for allegedly spying for China. Following the arrest in Germany on Monday of the suspect, Jian Guo...
Music streaming giant Spotify reported a rare operating profit for the first quarter on Tuesday and an increase in the number of paying subscribers. The company posted an operating profit of 168 million euros ($179 million), compared to a loss of...
Taiwan’s incoming president Lai Ching-te said on Tuesday that a multi-billion US military aid package will “strengthen deterrence against authoritarianism”, as China ramps up political and military pressure on the self-ruled island...
Beijing said Tuesday that the arrests and charges in Germany and Britain of people accused of spying for China were designed to “smear and suppress” the country. Investigators in Germany arrested three German nationals in the west of the...
A row between pharmaceutical firms Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech comes to court in London on Tuesday over patents for Covid vaccine technology that helped save millions of lives during the pandemic. At issue is US firm Moderna’s claim that its...
Taiwan was shaken by dozens of earthquakes overnight and into Tuesday that left buildings swaying and some tilting, with the government saying they were aftershocks from a huge deadly quake that hit the island more than two weeks ago. The strongest...
More than 100,000 people have been evacuated due to heavy rain and fatal floods in southern China, with the government issuing its highest-level rainstorm warning for the affected area on Tuesday. Torrential rains have lashed Guangdong in recent...
Elon Musk on Tuesday vowed to challenge Australian demands that his social media platform X take down videos of a recent Sydney church stabbing. Australia’s Federal Court on Monday gave the platform 24 hours to remove videos of an Assyrian...
Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency on Tuesday accused the country’s agriculture minister of illegally appropriating state land worth more than $7 million between 2017 and 2021. Several cases of corruption have emerged in Ukraine since...
At least five migrants, including a child, died overnight trying to cross the Channel from France to Britain on their overcrowded small boat, local authorities said. Three men and a woman were also among those killed on the dinghy carrying 110...
Betrayed by its DNA and unmanly toilet habits, a hippopotamus in Japan thought for seven years to be a he is in fact a she, the zoo where the wallowing giant lives said Tuesday. The 12-year-old came to Osaka Tennoji Zoo in 2017 from the Africam...
London’s FTSE 100 stocks index hit record highs Tuesday, catching up with major global peers which have struck all-time peaks this year as inflation cools. The FTSE reached 8,076.52 points shortly after the open, surpassing a record 8,047.06...
Armenia and Azerbaijan announced on Tuesday they had started fixing their border, as part of normalisation efforts between the arch foes that had been locked in a decades-long territorial conflict. Last month, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen a drill simulating a “nuclear counterattack,” state-run KCNA news agency said Tuesday, the latest in a volley of tests by Pyongyang this year. The drill took place on Monday, according to the...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said that Kyiv and Washington had started talks on a bilateral security cooperation deal and finalised plans to send more long-range missiles to Ukraine’s armed forces. Kyiv has signed several...
