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Jimmy Lai leaves the Court of Final Appeal by prison van in Hong Kong, on February 1, 2021.Tyrone Siu/Reuters   Hong Kong — Former Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, ending a years-long legal battle that has come to define Beijing’s transformational crackdown on the once-freewheeling financial hub. The 78-year-old self-made billionaire was among the highest-profile …

The US negotiators will be led by special envoy Steve Witkoff (left), while the Iranian team is headed by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi Senior US and Iranian officials are expected to meet in Oman for direct talks in the coming hours, amid a crisis that has raised fears of a military confrontation between the two countries. The discussions come after …

  No countries from the region are represented, and the board could fragment global conflict response systems that include the AU. The Board of Peace launched by United States (US) President Donald Trump last month has been widely criticised as an attempt by America’s leader to usurp the United Nations (UN) Security Council. For sub-Saharan Africa, there is an additional …

From calls for his Republican party to “nationalize” voting to his repeated false claims of a stolen election, President Donald Trump is ramping up attacks on the electoral system ahead of this year’s US midterms. The latest idea from Trump — who still refuses to acknowledge his 2020 election defeat by Democrat Joe Biden — is to take responsibility for …

The U.S. government says it has deepened its military partnership with Nigeria by deploying a special force team in the country to flush out terrorists. Gen. Dagvin Anderson, Commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) disclosed this during a digital news conference on Tuesday. He said the decision follows the talks he earlier held in Rome with President Bola …

Former US President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State, have agreed to testify in the congressional investigation into late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. It comes days before a vote on whether to hold the couple in criminal contempt for refusing to appear before the House Oversight Committee after a months-long standoff. Bill Clinton was …

Russia launched its biggest missile and drone attack on Ukraine so far this year on Tuesday, according to Ukrainian authorities, cutting heat to tens of thousands of people and ending a brief reprieve agreed to by Moscow and Washington as Ukrainians grapple with plummeting winter temperatures. CNN staff in the capital Kyiv reported hearing several strong explosions in the city …

US President Donald Trump’s decision to lower reciprocal tariffs on India from 50% to 18% has been met with a sense of relief in Asia’s third-largest economy, even as precise details on the agreement remain sketchy. India paid the highest tariffs in the world after Trump raised import duties on Indian goods from 25% to 50% in August last year, …

  Newly-released documents from disgraced … The major headlines from the latest dump of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein focus on President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and the former Prince Andrew, among others. And rightly so. Those names are sprinkled throughout the documents. Epstein’s alleged victims, meanwhile, were horrified that the …

Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s Prime Minister, said on Tuesday at the World Government Summit in Dubai that access to social media for minors under 16 would be banned. Sanchez added that all platforms will be required to implement age verification systems. “Our children are exposed to a space they were never meant to navigate alone. “We will no longer accept that. …