• Fiery Air India crash kills 241 people aboard, leaving 1 survivor, airline says
    2025-06-13

    AHMEDABAD, India AP — An Air India plane bound for London crashed in a residential area of Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff Thursday, killing 241 people on board, the airline said. One passenger who was thrown from the plane survived. At least five medical students in a college hostel were killed wh...

  • Elon Musk called Trump before conveying his 'regret' for some of his posts about him, sources say
    2025-06-12

    Elon Musk called President Donald Trump on Monday night, two sources familiar with the conversation told ABC News, after their bitter public feud last week. Musk posted on X early Wednesday morning, "I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week. They went too far." Musk, ho...

  • Dollar divorce? Asia’s shift away from the U.S. dollar is picking up pace
    2025-06-12

    U.S. dollar bill. Catherine Mcqueen | Moment | Getty Images Asia is progressively moving away from the U.S. dollar, as a mix of geopolitical uncertainties, monetary shifts and currency hedging prompt de-dollarization across the region. Recently, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASE...

  • Israel is poised to launch operation on Iran, multiple sources tell CBS News
    2025-06-12

    U.S. officials have been told Israel is fully ready to launch an operation into Iran, multiple sources told CBS News. The U.S. anticipates Iran could retaliate on certain American sites in neighboring Iraq. This is part of the reason the U.S. advised some Americans to leave the region earlier Wedne...

  • Over 30 mayors call for stop to ICE raids in Southern California as crackdown escalates
    2025-06-12

    Mounted police try to disperse people on the street when a curfew is effective in Los Angeles downtown area, California, the United States, on June 10, 2025. Photo by Qiu ChenXinhua The group of mayors called for the withdrawal of federalized National Guard troops and U.S. Marines from the region...

  • Huawei founder remains optimistic despite US curbs
    2025-06-11

    The United States' restrictive policies against China are ironically catalyzing China's technological advancements, industry insiders said on Tuesday, referring to the chip breakthroughs achieved by Huawei Technologies and the recent remarks of its founder Ren Zhengfei, who downplayed the impact of ...

  • Israel deports activist Greta Thunberg after military seized Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship
    2025-06-11

    Jerusalem — Israel deported activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday, the country's Foreign Ministry said, a day after the Gaza-bound ship she was on with 11 other people was seized by the Israeli military. Thunberg left on a flight to France and was then headed to her home country of Sweden, the Foreign ...

  • Los Angeles mayor announces curfew as anti-ICE protests continue downtown
    2025-06-11

    Mayor Karen Bass announced a curfew for downtown Los Angeles as anti-ICE protests continued on Tuesday. The curfew will begin at 8 p.m. tonight, last until 6 a.m. on Wednesday, and apply to one square mile of downtown L.A., "to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting," Bass said during a press conf...

  • 10 dead in Austrian school shooting, along with alleged shooter, officials say
    2025-06-11

    LONDON, PARIS and BELGRADE, Serbia -- Ten people are dead and at least a dozen are injured after a shooting on Tuesday at a high school in Graz, Austria, the city's mayor said, adding that the alleged shooter is also dead. Austrian state police confirmed the death toll, after earlier saying on soci...

  • 2 teenagers dead after car hit tree east of Melbourne
    2025-06-10

    SYDNEY, June 10 Xinhua -- Two teenagers have been killed and a third has been injured in a late-night car crash east of Melbourne. Emergency services were called to reports of a car crashing into a tree in the town of Orbost, 300 km east of Melbourne in Australia's East Gippsland region, at about 1...

  • IDF prevents aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg, other activists from reaching Gaza
    2025-06-10

    Israeli forces have seized a Gaza-bound aid boat and detained Greta Thunberg and other activists on board, enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory that has been tightened during the war with Hamas JERUSALEM -- Israeli forces seized a Gaza-bound aid boat and detained Gret...

  • Explosion at a US air base in southern Japan injures 4 Japanese soldiers
    2025-06-10

    Japanese officials say an explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnances at a U.S. military base on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa injured four Japanese soldiers TOKYO -- An explosion at a storage site for unexploded ordnances at a U.S. military base on Japan's southern island of Oki...

  • Trump authorizes deploying 2,000 more National Guard troops to LA
    2025-06-10

    Marines with 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, who were placed in an alert status over the weekend to support #USNORTHCOM mission, prepare to depart for the greater Los Angeles area June 9. Source: @USNorthernCmd | X President Donald Trump has authorized deploying another 2,000 National Guard troops to...

  • The AI wave from China: Innovation, cooperation, and a shared future
    2025-06-10

    Showcasing the successful video game Black Myth: Wukong, an art exhibition in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, brings some of the virtual characters to life in physical form. [Photo provided to China Daily] "Artificial intelligence: the future is now." This slogan aptly describes today's China, where...

  • US tariffs gross violation of WTO rules
    2025-06-10

    This photo taken on May 10, 2025 shows cargo ships loaded with containers at the Port of Los Angeles in California, United States. [PhotoXinhua] After landmark rulings by the US Court of International Trade, the US administration's rollout of "reciprocal tariffs" now faces a critical test. It is ...