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A destroyed building in Ukraine’s Sumy region on Monday after Russian missile strikes. Photo: dpa

Ukrainian lawmakers extend martial law until August

The extension allows Ukraine to continue mobilising troops and suspends the election cycle.

16 Apr 2025 - 6:48PMvideocam

Denmark mulls sending soldiers to train in Ukraine

16 Apr 2025 - 8:47PMvideocam

Trump administration reduces Ukraine aid estimate in minerals deal: report

16 Apr 2025 - 5:22PMvideocam

Indonesia won’t host Russian military aircraft, Australia says

Canberra’s defence minister said he had received ‘unequivocal’ assurances over reports of a Russian request for access to a Papua airbase.

16 Apr 2025 - 9:06AM

Russian anti-submarine aircraft patrol during joint naval and aerial drills with China last year. Photo: Russian Defence Ministry Press Service / AP

US-China trade war

Opinion | How Russia could game US-China trade tensions

Russia can benefit from the tariff war, but not necessarily by selling more energy and produce to China.

15 Apr 2025 - 4:30PMvideocam

US envoy claims ‘on the verge’ of Ukraine peace deal after Putin meeting

Donald Trump’s special envoy also hinted at ‘compelling commercial opportunities’ for the US following his meeting with Russia’s president.

15 Apr 2025 - 1:57PMvideocam

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Trump blames Biden and Zelensky for failing to prevent war in Ukraine

‘President Zelensky and Crooked Joe Biden did an absolutely horrible job in allowing this travesty to begin,’ Trump wrote on social media.

15 Apr 2025 - 9:32AMvideocam

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) and US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on February 28. Photo: CNP via Zuma Press Wire / TNS

My Take | It’s time for the European Union to do a ‘Kissinger’ with China

If Brussels wants to achieve ‘strategic autonomy’ in what has become a multipolar world, the only option that it has is to draw closer to Beijing.

13 Apr 2025 - 9:00PM

Children among 34 dead in Russian strike on Ukrainian city of Sumy

‘Only filthy scum can act like this – taking the lives of ordinary people,’ said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.

14 Apr 2025 - 1:21AMvideocam

Trump on Russia-Ukraine deal: there is a time ‘to put up or shut up’

Trump has shown signs of losing patience with Moscow and told it to ‘get moving’ on reaching an agreement.

13 Apr 2025 - 11:36AMvideocam

Firefighters put out a blaze at a warehouse damaged by the April 10 Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine. Photo: dpa

Ukrainian F-16 pilot killed in combat, Zelensky says

The aircraft was reportedly shot down by Russian missiles, making it the second advanced Western fighter jet Kyiv’s forces have lost.

13 Apr 2025 - 7:53AM

A Ukrainian Air Force F-16 flies in an undisclosed location in Ukraine in August 2024. Photo: AP

Serbia’s government rallies to counter anti-corruption protests

The Serbian government has stepped up a crackdown against critics, with police questioning activists and threatening legal action.

12 Apr 2025 - 10:38PM

Ukraine keen to end war with Russia soon: foreign minister at diplomacy forum

Kyiv’s Andrii Sybiha and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov both attended the three-day platform in Turkey but were never on the same panel, offering starkly different views on the conflict.

12 Apr 2025 - 10:48PM

EU begins defence fund talks to ease debt concerns

The European Defence Mechanism was proposed as a way of addressing how highly-indebted countries could pay for costly military equipment.

12 Apr 2025 - 5:12PM

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas talks to journalists as Defence ministers from the “coalition of the willing” nations, who are some of Kiev’s closest allies, meet at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday. Photo: dpa

Bangladesh families seek sons feared fighting for Russia in Ukraine war

Worried families claim the men were duped into joining the Russian army after being originally promised jobs elsewhere.

12 Apr 2025 - 9:50AMvideocam

Destruction in the town of Sudzha in the Kursk region in March. Bangladesh’s embassy in Moscow says it has received requests from families seeking to bring back their sons they allege were duped into joining the Russian army. Photo: Russian Defence Ministry/AFP

Editorial | Misery of Myanmar earthquake survivors must not be forgotten

Hong Kong has role to play as the United Nations appeals for help in humanitarian crisis facing more than 17 million people.

12 Apr 2025 - 6:15AM

UK jails former Russia minister for 40 months for violating sanctions

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov is the first person convicted of violating sanctions put in place after the illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

11 Apr 2025 - 11:27PMvideocam

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US-China trade war

Economist says China’s overseas assets at risk as trade war hits boiling point

Yu Yongding, a former central bank adviser, says Beijing’s foreign holdings could become another battleground in the US-China trade war.

11 Apr 2025 - 9:30PMvideocam

Outspoken Chinese economist Yu Yongding has warned of the precarity of Beijing’s overseas assets amid a heated trade war with the US. Photo: Shutterstock

European nations promise to send Ukraine billions more to help fight Russia

Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov said he was ‘thankful’ and said a key issue was strengthening his country’s air defences.

11 Apr 2025 - 9:26PMvideocam

Trump tells Russia to ‘get moving’ on Ukraine, as US envoy Witkoff meets Putin

US-Russia talks on a possible peace deal appear to have stalled over disagreements around conditions for a full pause in hostilities.

12 Apr 2025 - 3:42PMvideocam

Denisovans first discovered in Russia reached Taiwan Strait, fossil suggests

The discovery of archaic human jawbone shatters assumptions about the geographic limits of the Denisova hominin.

11 Apr 2025 - 2:34PMvideocam

An illustration provided by researchers depicts a Denisovan male in Taiwan in the Pleistocene era. Illustration: Cheng-Han Sun via AP

China-EU relations

Exclusive | EU leaders plan trip to Beijing in July for summit with Xi

No date confirmed with the Chinese side as travel plan indicates serious effort to re-engage amid collapsed relationship with the US.

11 Apr 2025 - 5:38AMvideocam

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (left) and European Council President Antonio Costa hold forth at a press conference in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on April 4. Photo: AFP

UK’s Prince Harry makes secret Ukraine visit to meet war victims

The royal was in Lviv, an area frequently targeted by Russian missiles, and the trip was not announced until after he left the country.

11 Apr 2025 - 4:01AMvideocam

China and North Korea’s war aid to Russia creates risks in Pacific: US admiral

The US Indo-Pacific Command head told senators China has provided tools and chips in return for submarine tech and other help.

11 Apr 2025 - 2:17AMvideocam

US-Russian citizen released in Moscow-Washington prisoner swap

Ksenia Karelina was convicted of treason on charges stemming from a donation of about US$52 to a charity aiding Ukraine.

10 Apr 2025 - 7:19PMvideocam

Russian-American dual citizen Ksenia Karelina attends a court hearing in Russia on august 15, 2024 after she was accused of treason for making a donation to a charity supporting Ukraine. Photo: Reuters

Over 150 Chinese mercenaries fighting for Russia in Ukraine, Zelensky says

The president says Beijing is aware of Moscow’s effort to recruit its nationals via social media, an allegation that Chinese officials deny.

10 Apr 2025 - 3:02AMvideocam

A screenshot from a video posted on the official Telegram channel of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday shows a man said to be one of two Chinese soldiers captured in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Photo: Official Telegram channel of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky via AFP

Germany’s Merz gets coalition deal, eyes reviving growth as global trade war looms

Merz, who called the US an unreliable ally, has already vowed to build up defence spending as Europe faces a hostile Russia.

9 Apr 2025 - 10:12PMvideocam

Icons and Influencers

Who is Aliia Roza, the influencer who claims to be a former Russian spy?

From Christian Cowan’s NYFW show to Lady Gaga’s Joker: Folie à Deux premiere, Aliia Roza gets around – so what do we know about the woman who claims she fled Russia after falling for a drug dealer?

9 Apr 2025 - 6:00PM

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