China's working population will shrink in the coming decades and keep the nation's economy from surpassing America's
One study says that, by the 2050s, China could be losing an average of 12 million working-age adults each year.
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Russia plans to dump its rubbish on Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories
The Ukrainian National Resistance Center (NRC) has reported that the Russian authorities are planning to dispose of waste from the Russian territory by dumping it on the temporarily occupied territories (TOT) of Ukraine.
Italy hits banks with 40% windfall tax for 2023
Italy dealt a surprise blow to its banks and sent shockwaves across the sector in Europe by setting a one-off 40% tax on profits reaped from higher interest rates, after reprimanding lenders for failing to reward deposits.
Russia blasts Saudi Arabia talks on ending war in Ukraine after Moscow gets no invitation to attend
Senior officials from around 40 countries gathered Sunday in Jeddah for a two-day meeting that aims to agree on key principles about how to end the conflict that has raged for more than 17 months.
Pro-Ukrainian hackers breach Moscow engineering service website
A group of pro-Ukrainian hackers has compromised the website of the Moscow Technical Inventory Bureau, transferring some of the retrieved information to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and making a portion of the database public, RFE/RL reported on Aug. 7.
Belarusian sprinter who defected at Olympics to race for Poland
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya refused to board a flight back home from Tokyo in August 2021 when she was removed from the Games against her will.
Japan urges Iran not to provide Russia with weapons for Ukraine war
Japan urges Iran not to provide Russia with weapons for its war against Ukraine, the government said, amid criticism from Western countries over Tehran's suspected supply of drones to Moscow for use in the prolonged military campaign.
Biden signs law implementing first part of U.S. trade pact with Taiwan
U.S. President Joe Biden signed legislation on Monday implementing the U.S. and Taiwan's "21st Century" trade initiative and issued a statement saying certain sections of the law "raise constitutional concerns."
Ukraine declares war on Russia’s Black Sea shipping
Kyiv warns it’s ‘completely unjustifiable’ for Western vessels to continue shipping Russian oil.
Japanese military’s role in “comfort women” system of sexual slavery has disappeared from the country's textbooks
A cabinet decision in April 2021 deemed the expression “comfort women for the Japanese military” inappropriate to use
FBI agents’ murders leads police in Australia to rescue 13 children from alleged paedophile ring
Operation Bakis charges 19 men in five states and territories over alleged dark web child abuse network
Taliban Prepare Suicide Bombers in Water Dispute With Iran
After two decades fighting the US, Taliban leaders now find themselves sparring with neighbors as the realities of global warming hit home.
China hacked Japan’s sensitive defense networks, officials say
Beijing's compromise of Tokyo's classified cyber networks could prevent greater strategic coordination between Japan's Defense Ministry and the Pentagon.
Tensions rise as Belarus begins military drills near Poland and Lithuania
Leaders of the two Nato countries say they expect provocations from their neighbouring Russian ally and Wagner fighters
Bosch sold CCTV cameras to Iran that were used to identify women who were not wearing hijab
Iranian morality police conducts hijab patrols in Tehran - Anadolu
Thousands of US troops arrive in Red Sea amid ratcheting Iran tensions: More than 3,000 US sailors and marines aboard two warships have reached the Red Sea, US Navy says.
More than 3,000 US sailors and marines aboard two warships have reached the Red Sea, US Navy says.
U.S. lab says it repeated fusion energy feat — with higher yield
The achievement is another key step — albeit in a journey that may take decades to complete — in the quest for an unlimited source of cheap and clean power.
Russia blasts Saudi Arabia talks on ending war in Ukraine after Moscow gets no invitation to attend
Ukrainian officials say that two Russian missiles have hit the center of Pokrovsk, a city in the eastern Donetsk region, killing five people and wounding 31 more.
Russians attack Zaporizhzhia Oblast with projectiles loaded with chemical substance
The Russians have launched two artillery attacks from multiple-launch rocket systems with the projectiles filled with a chemical substance, likely chloropicrin, on an area near the settlement of Novodanylivka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
North Korean hackers breach computers of Russian corporation that produces cruise missiles
Hackers from North Korea have hacked the computer networks of the Mashinostroyeniya scientific production association, which produces ballistic and cruise missiles.