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China Warns Pacific Forum as Taiwan Sends Foreign Minister to Palau — and the Islands Become the New Front Line Taiwan is sending its foreign minister into one of the most sensitive diplomatic arenas in the Indo-Pacific, triggering an angry response from Beijing before the meeting has even begun. Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung is travelling to Palau for events surrounding the Pacific Islands Forum...

Nvidia Earnings Could Trigger a $280bn Stock Swing — And a Simple Beat May No Longer Be Enough Nvidia will publish its second-quarter fiscal 2027 results after the US market closes on Wednesday with expectations so high that simply reporting another record quarter may no longer be enough. The company has already told investors to expect about $91 billion of revenue, while the market consensus has...

The Great Sussex U-Turn Prince Harry and Meghan have returned to Britain with Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, completing one of the most extraordinary reversals in the modern history of the Royal Family. Six years after leaving royal duties behind and building a new life in California, the Sussexes are again going to live in the country they once portrayed as an environment in which intense me...

China’s Expanding Influence From Central Asia to Egypt Xi Jinping is preparing to travel west in one of China’s most strategically revealing diplomatic missions of the year, moving from a major Central Asian summit in Kyrgyzstan to Egypt as Beijing works to deepen its influence across two regions increasingly important to the global contest with the United States. China’s foreign ministry announce...

The Himalayan Flood Disaster A vast search operation is under way in the Himalayas after 384 travellers were reported missing or out of contact following catastrophic flooding along the Nepal–Tibet border, with a preliminary list including 12 British nationals. The Nepal Tourism Board says 291 foreign travellers and 93 Nepalis are currently being traced after roads, bridges and communications were...

Why Ukraine Just Gave Elon Musk a Top State Honour — And What Kyiv Wants Next Ukraine has awarded Elon Musk one of its most prestigious state honours in a remarkable acknowledgement of just how important the SpaceX founder and his Starlink satellite network have become to the country’s survival during more than four years of war. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy awarded Musk the Order of Freedom on A...

The Storm Called Dolly An extraordinary coincidence has emerged in the Atlantic hurricane season just a day after the death of country music legend Dolly Parton: the next tropical storm to form in the basin is due to be named Dolly . The name was fixed long before Parton’s death and has no connection to the singer, but the timing has immediately drawn attention as forecasters watch another disturb...

Mélenchon Proposes Wiping Out 18% of French Debt as PM Warns Investors Could Flee Jean-Luc Mélenchon has detonated one of the most radical economic proposals of France’s emerging 2027 presidential campaign by arguing that the country should effectively erase the portion of its public debt held by the Banque de France. The radical-left presidential candidate says roughly 18% of France’s debt could...

City’s New Midfield Future Manchester City have completed the signing of 18-year-old Morocco international Ayyoub Bouaddi from Lille, making one of European football's most coveted young midfielders the latest piece of their rapidly changing squad. Bouaddi has signed a five-year contract running until the summer of 2031, with the total transfer package reported to be worth around £86million. C...

Rare Four-Cyclone Formation Puts China on Alert as Another Typhoon Closes In China has been confronted by an extraordinary concentration of tropical weather after four cyclones swirled simultaneously across the Northwest Pacific and South China Sea, while flooding forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. The rare formation involved Saudel, Narra, Gaenari and Atsani — four consecutive n...

Meta Considered Cutting Some Teams by 60% as Zuckerberg Bet on an AI-First Workforce Mark Zuckerberg reportedly considered shrinking some Meta teams by as much as 60 per cent as part of an extraordinary attempt to rebuild one of the world's largest technology companies around artificial intelligence. The idea was simple but radical: smaller groups of highly capable employees would use autonomo...

SpaceX’s $100bn Gateway to Mars Elon Musk’s vision of turning rocket launches from rare national events into something closer to an industrial transport network has just acquired an extraordinary new home. SpaceX plans to invest $100 billion in Starbase Louisiana, a sprawling 125,000-acre complex designed to become the largest spaceport in the world and ultimately support thousands of Starship fli...

Taiwan’s Unmanned Arsenal Taiwan is pushing ahead with an extraordinary plan to acquire more than 210,000 unmanned military systems in a multibillion-dollar attempt to make the island dramatically harder for China to attack. At the heart of the proposal is a simple calculation: Taiwan cannot match Beijing platform for platform, but it could make any invasion, blockade or coastal assault vastly mor...

The Threat Has Reached Trump’s Family The U.S. Secret Service has responded after Iranian state television aired an extraordinary video appearing to threaten Barron Trump, taking the increasingly personal confrontation between Tehran and the Trump family into disturbing new territory. The roughly three-minute broadcast focuses on President Donald Trump’s 20-year-old son, purports to identify place...

America Suddenly Reschedules Immigrant-Visa Interviews Worldwide — And There Is No Clear End Date The Trump administration has temporarily put immigrant-visa interviews on hold across the world as US consular officers undergo new training designed to tighten screening of people seeking permanent residence in America. Applicants who already had interviews arranged are being told their appointments...

The Warning to Moscow America’s top spy flew quietly into Moscow this week as US intelligence watched for signs that Vladimir Putin may be preparing another major military escalation. CIA director John Ratcliffe’s unannounced visit immediately drew comparisons with one of the most consequential intelligence missions of the period before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The purpose of Ratcl...

Bill Gates Fears AI Could Destroy Jobs and Empower Attackers — Now He Wants Global Rules Bill Gates spent decades believing technology could solve almost any problem humanity placed in front of it. Artificial intelligence has pushed him into unfamiliar territory: he now appears increasingly worried that innovation may be moving faster than the institutions capable of controlling its consequences....

Farewell to the Rhinestone Queen Who Changed Country Music Forever Dolly Parton, one of the most recognisable, successful and widely loved entertainers of the modern era, has died aged 80. The singer-songwriter, actress, businesswoman and philanthropist died peacefully in Nashville on Tuesday, August 25, 2026, bringing an extraordinary seven-decade journey from poverty in the Tennessee mountains t...

Trump Turns on Ontario as Tariff War Erupts Across US-Canada Border Donald Trump has opened an extraordinary new front in his confrontation with Canada, saying the United States is giving “serious consideration” to changing the name of Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” What might otherwise sound like political theatre has landed in the middle of a rapidly intensifying trade fight between two countri...

74 Restricted AI Servers Reached China Before Taiwan Stopped Another 56 Taiwanese prosecutors have charged nine people in an extraordinary case involving high-end artificial intelligence servers allegedly diverted towards China, including a manager at Nvidia and people linked to server manufacturer Super Micro. The case centres on 130 advanced B300-based servers that prosecutors say were obtained...

Trump Wanted Canada To Fall In Line — Canada Just Did The Opposite Canada has answered Donald Trump’s latest tariff offensive with one of its clearest acts of economic retaliation yet, imposing new duties on C$27.6 billion of American imports and matching Washington dollar for dollar and rate for rate. The measures will take effect on September 8 and cover more than 700 products at tariff rates of...

The Strait Trump Says Iran Can No Longer Mine Donald Trump says the United States Navy has removed or detonated every mine from the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz, declaring one of the most dangerous physical obstacles to Gulf shipping cleared after months of conflict. He coupled the announcement with an unmistakable warning to Iran: any vessel caught laying new mines will be destroy...

Why Has America’s CIA Chief Just Flown Into Moscow? CIA Director John Ratcliffe has reportedly travelled to Moscow for meetings with Russian officials after a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III made an unusual flight into the Russian capital. The journey turns what initially appeared to be a mysterious military-aircraft movement into something considerably more significant: a direct, high-level cha...

‘Miscarriage of Justice’ Claim Crushed by Federal Judge Ghislaine Maxwell has suffered another major legal defeat after a federal judge rejected her attempt to overturn the conviction that put her in prison for 20 years. The latest challenge was significant because Maxwell argued that newly disclosed material connected to the Jeffrey Epstein files exposed serious constitutional problems with her p...

Hundreds Feared Abducted in Nigeria as Tinubu Orders Immediate Rescue Nigeria has ordered an immediate national rescue operation after a mass abduction in Niger State escalated into what could be one of the country’s largest kidnapping incidents in recent years. President Bola Tinubu has directed the military, police, intelligence services and other security agencies to find the captives and bring...