• Federal judge drops corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams
    2025-04-03

    Mayor Eric Adams speaks at a news conference in Brooklyn, New York on March 29, 2025.Kyle MazzaAnadolu via Getty Images A federal judge on Wednesday formally dismissed the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, granting the controversial request from the Justice Department that g...

  • PLA drills around Taiwan achieve designated results
    2025-04-03

    The Ground Force of the People's Liberation Army Eastern Theater Command conducts long-range live-fire drills on Wednesday in waters of the East China Sea according to training plans of the "Strait Thunder-2025A" exercise. PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY The two-day joint exercises launched by the People...

  • Russian Cult Leader Nabbed in Argentine Human-Trafficking Swoop
    2025-04-03

    Konstantin Rudnev, leader of Ashram Shambala. Argentine authorities have dismantled a notorious Russian cult, arresting 14 individuals in a joint operation across two airports that has exposed a sinister network of alleged human exploitation. Konstantin Rudnev, the 57-year-old founder of the Ash...

  • Israel announces expansion of military operation in Gaza to seize ‘large areas’ of land, ordering residents to leave
    2025-04-03

    A general view of the destruction in Gaza seen from the border between Israel and Gaza on March 8, 2025. Ilia Yefimovichpicture allianceGetty ImagesFile CNN — Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Wednesday a major expansion of the military’s operation in Gaza involving the seizure of la...

  • Trump Launches Trade War With Penguins, Not Putin
    2025-04-03

    The president’s new tariffs hit economic allies and Arctic waterfowl, but not Russia for some reason President Donald Trump holds up a chart while speaking during a trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Donald Trump’s obsession with t...

  • Local governance in China, West differs
    2025-04-02

    MA XUEJINGCHINA DAILY The elections in countries that call themselves liberal democracies seem never-ending. Regular or early elections, from presidential to parliamentary and local, create the illusion that "something is happening". But it is all merely a façade, a recycling of the same, visibly...

  • Melania Trump honors women who bring 'progress for all of humanity'
    2025-04-02

    This was the fifth time she has presented the State Department's award. First lady Melania Trump honored women from around the world during an award ceremony at the State Department, calling the eight honorees' love "a powerful catalyst" for their work to fight injustice and advocate women and girl...

  • Shoppers in Denmark boycott American goods over Trump admin’s push to own Greenland
    2025-04-02

    “We love the U.S. and the culture, but we just dislike the president,” said the administrator of a group calling for consumers in Denmark to avoid U.S. products and services. Protesters in front of the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Sunday.Kristian Tuxen Ladegaard Berg SOPA LightRocket...

  • US consumers brace for tariffs
    2025-04-02

    Economists warn move could affect jobs and 'weaken' domestic competitiveness Workers sort avocados at a packing plant in Uruapan, Mexico, on Nov 27. Experts predict avocado prices will rise in the event of tariffs on Mexican imports. ARMANDO SOLISAP Experts suggest that US consumers will bear th...

  • China's lunar exploration achieves systematic progress, says chief designer
    2025-04-02

    BEIJING -- China's lunar exploration program has made systematic advancements across scientific research, technological innovation, engineering development and international collaboration over the past two decades, Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's lunar exploration program, told Xinhua. Wu ...

  • Cult-affiliated companies sell products on TikTok, raising concerns over clandestine recruitment
    2025-04-01

    Business activities tied to cults may support covert religious outreach Products affiliated with JMS Christian Gospel Mission and Guwonpa Salvation Sect flood TikTok. Products from a company run by the family of a senior official close to Jung Myung-seok, the leader of the JMS Christian Gospel M...

  • NASA astronaut says Boeing, NASA share responsibility for Starliner issues
    2025-04-01

    LOS ANGELES, March 31 Xinhua -- NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore said on Monday he should have asked more questions about Starliner to prevent subsequent issues, adding that both Boeing and NASA share responsibility for the challenges encountered. Wilmore and fellow NASA astronaut Suni Williams held th...

  • Gold rises to another record as anxiety grips markets. Here’s what you need to know
    2025-04-01

    Gold bars are shown stacked in a vault at the United States Mint on July 22, 2014 in West Point, N.Y. AP PhotoMike Groll, File NEW YORK AP — Markets around the world continue to sink on fears about President Donald Trump’s protectionist trade policies, and investors keep plowing money into gold, ...

  • More than 1,900 scientists write letter in ‘SOS’ over Trump’s attacks on science
    2025-04-01

    Members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned Americans of ‘real danger in this moment’ Thousands demonstrate for science and research funding in Washington DC on 7 March 2025. Photograph: Allison BaileyNurPhotoREXShutterstock More than 1,900 members of the Natio...

  • PLA undertakes combat drills around Taiwan
    2025-04-01

    The Eastern Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army has started inter-service combat exercises around Taiwan Island on Tuesday, according to its spokesman. Senior Colonel Shi Yi said in a statement that the command has deployed its ground, naval, air, rocket and other forces from multiple...