Arab Gulf countries, strategic partners of Washington, are bolstering ties with China as part of an eastward turn that involves diversifying their fossil fuel-heavy economies. As a Gulf-China summit
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Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn has ended a months-long "closed loop" system at the world's biggest iPhone factory in central China, citing Beijing's nationwide loosening of zero-Covid regulations. Earl
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A Russian court found opposition figure Ilya Yashin guilty of spreading "false information" about Russia's military intervention in Ukraine, the highest-profile conviction under new legislation crimi
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China has set up at least two "police stations" in Germany, authorities have confirmed, sparking fresh concern about the overseas centres that critics say are used to harass dissidents. The German se
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Iran carried out its first known execution Thursday over protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, hanging a man convicted of blocking a street and wounding a paramilitary member in what human rights a
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Israel's incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a parliamentary majority after his Likud party said it had reached an agreement with the Jewish ultra-Orthodox Shas party. Netanyahu's rig
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