Beijing says the aircraft carrier’s trip was routine and unrelated to Biden-Xi phone call Just hours before the scheduled phone call between US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, China sailed its aircraft carrier Shandong through the Taiwan Strait. The Foreign Ministry in Beijing, however, says the two are unrelated and Western…

Many European countries have been reluctant to tap the reserves themselves, opting instead for the interest earned on them Ukraine’s Western backers should step up efforts to confiscate Russian assets frozen abroad in order to aid Kiev, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said.

The owner of X (formerly Twitter) agreed with a user who wrote that Jews had helped “hordes of minorities” to flood the US A major advertiser has put its cooperation with X (formerly Twitter) on hold, as platform owner Elon Musk faces calls to step down over alleged anti-Semitism. The billionaire has received backlash after…