KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Recent statements by France’s president and Britain’s foreign secretary about the war in Ukraine are “dangerous” and will deepen international tension around the conflict, the Kremlin’s spokesman said Friday.…
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Kill chain refers to a sequence of tactical steps or processes in which weaponry finds, engages, and kills targets in military operations. read more
Taiwan is currently in the peak phase of acquiring weapons to bolster its integrated “kill chain” capab…

Four Chinese generative artificial intelligence start-ups have been valued at between $1.2bn and $2.5bn in the past three months, leading a pack of more than 260 companies vying to emulate the success of US rivals such as OpenAI and Anthropic.…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is arguing that a fractured democracy can have destructive effects on the economy — an indirect jab at Donald Trump.
Yellen, in an address prepared for delivery Friday in Arizona, uses economic data to …

The S&P 500 (^GSPC) is wrapping up its two busiest weeks of earnings reports this quarter, with more than half of the index reporting results. Companies have largely surprised to the upside, with the index pacing at earnings growth of 5.5% this qua…

A survey of North American equities heading in both directions
On the rise
Shares of pipeline operator TC Energy Corp. (TRP-T) saw gains after it beat first-quarter profit estimates on Friday, helped by robust demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG).&#8…

Sherry Kirkvold dropped the card into a whale-oil-barrel post box on Floreana Island in the Galapagos Archipelago on March 15, 1991.
Sherry Kirkvold with the postcard she left in a whale-oil-barrel post box on the Galapagos Islands in 1991.…
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Open this photo in gallery: Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron walks in the city centre with Lviv City Mayor Andriy Sadovyi as he visits Ukraine, in Lviv, on May 3.Roman Baluk/Reuters
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The UK will appoint a new envoy to oversee a plan to ramp up the production of weapons and ammunition, which is now a "national priority", the foreign secretary has revealed.…
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China on Friday launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side.…
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However, Mr Hathway, the liquidator of other firms involved in the alleged fraud, argued Jones Partners’ reduction of Revenue NSW’s debt swayed the outcome of creditor votes that led to the passing of a deed of company arrangement to resolve all debts….

China on a mission to 'dominate space'
"It is a big day for China's space programme," our Asia correspondent Nicole Johnston, who is reporting from Beijing, says.
"The rocket is due to take off in around an hour on H…

Open this photo in gallery: Westridge Marine Terminal, the terminus of the government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in Burnaby, from Cates Park in North Vancouver, on May 1.Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters
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Australia, the US and Japan will step up military drills with the Philippines amid rising tensions with China, with Defence Minister Richard Marles referring to the West Philippine Sea, a term that is a diplomatic repudiation of Beijing’s overlapping m…

In these times of planetary polycrisis, we try to get our bearings by looking to the past. Are we perhaps in The New Cold War, as Robin Niblett, the former director of the foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House, proposes in a new book?…
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KASHAN, Iran (AP) — The historic Kashan bazaar in central Iran once sat on a major caravan route, its silk carpets known the world over. But for the weavers trying to sell their rugs under its ancient arches, their world has only unraveled since the co…

If the 20th-century space race was about political power, this century’s will be about money. But for those who dream of sending humans back to the moon and possibly Mars, it’s an exciting time to be alive whether it’s presidents or billionaires paying…

Dancing in a club in Shanghai, China. Most clubbers are moderately affluent members of China’s Generation Z who skip easily across cultures, viewing their own as about equal to others. Photograph: Hector Retamal/AFP
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Taiwan’s defence ministry said on Friday it had detected a renewed incursion by Chinese military aircraft across the sensitive Taiwan Strait, as China reported its navy had carried out combat drills with landing craft.…
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“How good is God?”
Some might take that question as a philosophical inquiry about the existence of evil in a world supposedly ruled by a merciful deity.
Australians, however, may recognise the banal “daggy dad” speech pattern of former prime minister S…