SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) – China’s Huawei Technologies on Tuesday unveiled a $2,800 tri-foldable phone as it seeks to extend its lead in the world’s biggest smartphone market and steal the spotlight from Apple hours after it debuted a new iPhone. The Chinese tech giant showed off its new Mate XT, which users can fold three…
Opponent of Nicolas Maduro – widely seen as legitimate election winner – seeks asylum in Spain after being accused of a series of crimes The Venezuelan opposition leader and former presidential candidate, Edmundo González, has gone into exile in Spain, dealing a bitter blow to opponents of the country’s authoritarian president, Nicolás Maduro. The Spanish…
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Islamic countries to form an alliance against Israel’s expansionism. His remarks followed the alleged killing of a Turkish-American woman by Israeli troops during a protest. Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz condemned Erdogan’s statement as incitement and a dangerous lie. united front against what he described as Israeli expansionism, following the…
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A bridge collapsed and a bus was swept away by flooding in Vietnam on Monday, raising the death toll in the Southeast Asian country to at least 64 from a typhoon and subsequent heavy rains that also damaged factories in export-focused northern industrial hubs, state media reported. Nine people died on…
NEAR ALLENBY BRIDGE CROSSING, West Bank, Sept 8 (Reuters) – A gunman from Jordan killed three Israeli civilians at the Allenby Bridge border crossing in the occupied West Bank before security forces shot him dead on Sunday, Israeli authorities said. It was the first attack of its kind along the border with Jordan since Oct….
JERUSALEM, Sept 6 (Reuters) – Israel’s ultra-Orthodox parties, already at odds with coalition partners over demands to draft young religious men into the army, are again testing the unity of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government with a challenge over education funding. The latest rift centres on an ultra-Orthodox push for schools in their separate education…
After the news that Europe’s largest car producer VW may close two plants, experts are sounding the alarm that the downsizing of manufacturing isn’t just limited to the car industry. The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) says companies need to evolve. As EU car companies struggle with the phasing out of combustion engines and…
The decade of 1990 saw the launch of the one-child policy in China to address the issue of overpopulation.This led to an increase in the flow of children in state orphanages which eventually opened doors for international adoptions China announced on Thursday that it is ending its international adoption programme, an initiative that saw tens…
Greetings from Tyler, There seems to be some question as to whether they will put Donald Trump in jail over the New York charges. All bets are off if they do that. Sentencing has been delayed until after the election by some stroke of genius. You can see Hillary taking great delight in calling him…
On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron named Michel Barnier as the country’s new Prime minister. But will “Monsieur Brexit” be able to resolve France’s political deadlock? After a seven-week wait, Michel Barnier, the European Union’s Brexit negotiator and a veteran of the traditional right-wing party The Republicans (LR), was appointed as France’s new premier. Barnier…