Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned of unintended clashes in the crisis-hit Middle East after meeting the Iranian president in Tehran on Wednesday, amid a brewing confrontation between Iran and the United States. As a U.S. ally that also has good diplomatic relations with Iran, Japan could be in a ... Read More »
Refugee agency says risk of people dying attempting crossing is at its highest The risk of migrants and refugees becoming shipwrecked in the Mediterranean and dying at sea is the highest it has ever been due to a lack of NGO rescue ships and the conflict in Libya hastening ... Read More »
Critics say law will allow China to pursue political opponents and legitimise abductions Riot police have clashed with protesters in Hong Kong after hundreds of thousands of people marched through the streets in a massive demonstration against a proposed extradition law. Critics say the proposed law will allow mainland ... Read More »
As with new version of PlayStation, Xbox is promising to do away with loading screens Microsoft has revealed its new Xbox, codenamed Project Scarlett. The console features a huge array of improved specs that will allow games to do away with loading times as well as giving vast performance leaps, ... Read More »
Temperatures could rise by as much as 9.1C while mass-melting would see size of permafrost drop by quarter Climate change could make large swathes of Siberia habitable before the end of this century, a new study suggests. Winter temperatures could rise by as much as 9.1C while mass-melting would see the ... Read More »
Security forces are attempting to disperse a long-running sit-in outside the defence ministry Sudanese security forces have used live ammunition in a major operation to disperse a protest camp in central Khartoum, witnesses and Arab television stations reported. A medical association affiliated to protesters said at least two people ... Read More »
China and the United States clashed again this weekend on trade and security, accusing each other of destabilizing the region and potentially the world. Speaking on Sunday at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia’s premier defense summit, China’s Defence Minister Wei Fenghe warned the United States not to meddle in ... Read More »
Iran sees no prospect of negotiations with the United States, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said a deal with Tehran on its nuclear program was possible. Washington withdrew last year from a 2015 international nuclear deal with Tehran, and is ratcheting ... Read More »
Largest global study finds the drugs in two-thirds of test sites in 72 countries Hundreds of rivers around the world from the Thames to the Tigris are awash with dangerously high levels of antibiotics, the largest global study on the subject has found. Antibiotic pollution is one of the ... Read More »
President acknowledges Shinzo Abe’s close links to Tehran and says US ‘would like to talk’ Donald Trump has said he would support Shinzo Abe’s efforts to act as a mediator between the US and Iran, amid reports that the Japanese prime minister will visit Tehran next month for talks with ... Read More »
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