Hong Kong protests: Weekend clashes, weekday capitalism
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Reformist Masoud Pezeshkian defeated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s protege Saeed Jalili Friday to become Iran’s next president, winning the runoff election by 16.3 million votes to Jalili’s 13.5 million. Pezeshkian was the leading candidate in the first round of Iran’s sham election on June 28, but he did not clear the 50-percent threshold necessary to win outright. He…
University of Alabama at Birmingham says state’s supreme court ruling could expose doctors and patients to criminal charges A medical school in Alabama has paused in vitro fertilization procedures in the wake of the first-of-its-kind decision made by the state’s supreme court on Friday, which ruled that frozen embryos are “children”. The decision has been…
The German chancellor is set for a balancing act during his talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, as Berlin weighs economic interests against geopolitical concerns. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz leaves for China on Saturday for a three-day diplomatic visit that includes meetings with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Accompanied by a high-level business delegation, the German leader…
North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea, South Korea’s military has said. In a statement it said two launches had been detected from the North’s eastern coastal Tongchon area around mid-day on Friday. Tongchon is about 60km (37 miles) away from the inter-Korean border. The area was apparently closer to South…
Iranian official says next move on prisoner exchange depends on US. It’s hard to understate the impact of resumed diplomatic ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia — and that it was China that made it happen. China has until now had a business- and energy-first approach to the Middle East, preferring to abstain from the diplomatic and…
The dramatic surge in U.S. military power in the Caribbean since August 2025 — anchored by the arrival of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the deployment of F-35s to Puerto Rico, expanded naval patrols, the buildup of some 15,000 U.S. personnel, and the announcement of a naval blockade of Venezuelan tankers carrying sanctioned oil —…