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21 Mar 2025 - 2:00PM

Three construction workers in China were hung from a gate by their harnesses as part of their safety training, sparking public shock. Photo: SCMP composite/Shutterstock/Douyin

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Chinese satellites seen ‘dogfighting’, US Space Force official says

20 Mar 2025 - 1:38AMvideocam

A Shiyan-24C experimental satellite is launched from a sea platform in 2024. The satellite is among those seen “dogfighting in space”, according to the USSF. Photo: Handout

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China’s 6th-gen fighter sighted again as Trump ‘set to announce’ jet contract

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China’s sixth-generation stealth fighter has been spotted on another test run. Photo: Weibo/第一军情

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Chinese breakthrough challenges Elon Musk’s verdict on paralysed patients

19 Mar 2025 - 7:00PMvideocam

Four patients with spinal cord injuries were able to move their limbs hours after groundbreaking surgery as part of a clinical trial led by Shanghai’s Fudan University. Photo: Fudan University

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Former US defence researcher Zhan Hanyu joins China’s elite aerospace university

20 Mar 2025 - 3:25PMvideocam

In December, Zhan Hanyu became a full-time professor at the college of automation engineering at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics after studying and working in the US for more than 15 years. Photo: The Paper

The impact of a projectile is visible on the wall of a
UN guest house in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. Photo: AP

Israel-Gaza war

Israel investigating UN worker’s death in Gaza, military denies striking compound

Five also injured in explosion at UN building that UNOPS chief Jorge Moreira da Silva said ‘was not an accident’.

20 Mar 2025 - 9:24AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas in no-win situation as Israeli strikes on Gaza resume

20 Mar 2025 - 8:58AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu says strikes on Gaza that killed hundreds are ‘only the beginning’

19 Mar 2025 - 8:05PMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Israel strikes across Gaza kill hundreds as ceasefire collapses

Palestinian health authorities report at least 400 dead as Israeli military warns of campaign beyond air strikes.

18 Mar 2025 - 7:32PMvideocam

A woman cries while sitting on the rubble of her house, destroyed in an Israeli strike, in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza Strip. Photo: AFP

Lebanon and Syria agree on ceasefire after deadly cross-border clashes

Mountainous frontier has been a flashpoint in the three months since Islamist rebels toppled Syria’s Assad.

18 Mar 2025 - 4:45PM

Professor deported to Lebanon supported Hezbollah leader, US says

US visa holder Dr Rasha Alawieh was removed after US officials found photos of Hezbollah figure on her phone.

18 Mar 2025 - 9:25AM

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Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu’s move to fire security agency chief threatens new crisis in Israel

Opponents organised protests on Monday after Ronen Bar’s dismissal while a former court president warned against the ‘dangerous’ move.

18 Mar 2025 - 1:54AMvideocam

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel. Photo: Pool Photo via AP

UK woman fears for elderly father detained by Taliban in Afghanistan

A British couple in their 70s were arrested by the Taliban last month.

17 Mar 2025 - 11:30AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Israel team discusses Gaza hostages at truce talks dogged by divisions

Despite the fragile truce still holding, near-daily Israeli air strikes on Gaza continue.

17 Mar 2025 - 10:51AM

Pakistan vs Isis-K: inside the global crackdown that won Trump’s praise

In a seven-month operation spanning 21 nations, Pakistani intelligence dismantled an Isis-K cell tied to bombings in Kabul, Moscow and Kerman.

16 Mar 2025 - 4:00PM

Militants riding in a convoy wave an Isis flag. Photo: AP

Head of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria killed, Iraqi PM says

Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai was killed by Iraqi intelligence members and US-led coalition forces, PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani says.

15 Mar 2025 - 12:17PMvideocam

Iraqi Army soldiers hold a flag of Islamic State after regaining control of a village outside Mosul in 2016. Photo: AP

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas to release American hostage, Israel calls it ‘psychological warfare’

Hamas will also release the bodies of four other dual nationality hostages.

14 Mar 2025 - 10:11PMvideocam

5 killed in Thailand’s restive south, 13 wounded, police say

The conflict in Thailand’s southernmost provinces has killed more than 7,000 people since 2004 as rebels battle for greater autonomy.

9 Mar 2025 - 7:51PM

Syria risks relapsing into chaos amid US sanctions, infighting

The transitional authorities in Syria are viewed with suspicion by the US and Israel, while various groups want a decentralised government.

4 Mar 2025 - 6:32PM

Syrians protest against Israel in the southern city of Suwayda on February 25. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Israel PM issues threat to Hamas over hostages as Gaza talks at an impasse

As Arab leaders prepared for summit in Cairo, Netanyahu warned Hamas would face ‘unimaginable consequences’ if it did not return hostages.

4 Mar 2025 - 7:37AM

Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel on Monday. Photo: dpa

1 dead in Israel stabbing attack, assailant killed

A man and woman around 30 years of age as well as a 15-year-old boy were seriously injured, Israel’s emergency service said.

3 Mar 2025 - 8:20PM

Suicide blast at Pakistan’s ‘University of Jihad’ kills 4

The school is known as the ‘University of Jihad’ for its fiery ideology and the number of Taliban fighters it has produced.

28 Feb 2025 - 7:10PMvideocam

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Israel-Gaza war

Hamas armed wing says it will hand over bodies of 4 hostages ‘tonight’

Hamas has released hostages, and the bodies of four dead hostages, in large public ceremonies.

27 Feb 2025 - 8:12AM

Palestinians walk near the rubble of buildings, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Israel refuses entry to 2 EU lawmakers, accuses 1 of promoting boycotts

Lynn Boylan, who chairs European Parliament EU-Palestine delegation, and French politician Rima Hassan ordered to return to Europe.

25 Feb 2025 - 11:18AMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Israel sends tanks into West Bank for first time in decades

Palestinian authority criticises ‘dangerous escalation’ as Israel ramps up West Bank offensive.

24 Feb 2025 - 12:48PM

Israel-Gaza war

Bibas family invites supporters to Gaza hostages’ funeral procession

The remains of the Bibas family were among the first to be returned under the Israel-Hamas truce deal last week.

24 Feb 2025 - 2:45PM

A woman mourns at a memorial for dead hostages Shiri Bibas, her two children, Ariel and Kfir and Oded Lifshitz in Tel Aviv, Israel. Photo: AP

Opinion | Why Pakistan’s strategic alliance with China will strengthen

Given the India-US bromance, Pakistan and China have little choice. Expect Afghanistan to remain a focus amid efforts to counter US-led narratives.

23 Feb 2025 - 9:43AMvideocam

Pakistani navy soldiers carry the national flags of participating countries at the opening ceremony of the Aman multinational exercise, in Karachi, Pakistan, on February 7. The naval exercise, which ran to February 11, was joined by 60 countries including China. Photo: EPA-EFE

Prabowo’s budget cuts threaten aid to Bali bombing survivors

Survivors like Chusnul Chotimah rely on funding from Indonesia’s victim and witness protection agency, LPSK, for medical assistance.

25 Feb 2025 - 3:53PMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Body handed over by Hamas in Gaza was not that of hostage, Israel says

Israel said child hostages Ariel and Kfir Bibas identified but other released body was not their mother, Shiri Bibas.

21 Feb 2025 - 10:56PM

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas returns 4 Israeli bodies said to include a mother and her 2 children

Thursday’s handover could provide impetus for negotiations on the second stage of the ceasefire that have hardly begun.

20 Feb 2025 - 8:58PM

A woman is overcome with emotion as the bodies of four Israeli hostages, including a mother and her two children, are handed over by Hamas to the Red Cross in Gaza, at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. Photo: AP

Austria foils railway station terror attack, arrests teen, 14

Investigators found material that suggested the teen, an Austrian with Turkish roots, supported the Islamic State group.

19 Feb 2025 - 11:49PM

The teen, 14, apparently had planned an attack at the Westbahnhof, a major railway station in Vienna. Photo: AFP

Israel-Gaza war

Hamas ready to free all hostages at once in Gaza truce phase 2

Israel’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that talks would begin ‘this week’ on the second phase.

20 Feb 2025 - 12:15AMvideocam

Israel says army retreating from Lebanon, but for 5 outposts

Israel had been due to finalise its withdrawal by February 18, after it missed a January deadline.

18 Feb 2025 - 5:09PM

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