ROME — Italy made an “improvised and atrocious” decision when it joined China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) four years ago as it did little to boost exports, Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto said in an interview published on Sunday. ...

BEIJING — Tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in Beijing as the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri dumped record rainfall on the city, grounding flights and flooding hundreds of roads on Monday. Besides Beijing, heavy rain continued ...

MANILA – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday the European Union was ready to strengthen cooperation with the Philippines on maritime security. She was speaking after a meeting with Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Manila. ...

CARACAS – More than 150 dogs wearing colorful scarves on their necks participated alongside their owners in a race through Venezuela’s capital Caracas on Sunday morning, which was organized to seek support for animal shelters in the country. Runners and ...

Ukraine is to start consultations with the United States this week on providing security guarantees for Kyiv pending the completion of the process of joining NATO, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff said on Sunday. Andriy Yermak, writing on the ...

Asian share markets are looking to end July with a bang as hopes for new policy steps have Chinese blue chips up 4.8% for the month and on track for their best performance since January. China’s July PMIs were mixed ...

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., has announced an ‘official criminal referral’ to the Department of Justice with regard to Dr. Anthony Fauci. Paul pointed to an email from February 2020 in which Fauci detailed a call with British medical researcher Jeremy ...

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a 2024 Republican presidential candidate, accused the Republican National Committee of trying to keep new voices off the debate stage. Burgum, the latest candidate to meet the RNC’s polling and fundraising thresholds for the first ...

GOP presidential candidates Nikki Haley and Asa Hutchinson disagree when it comes to talking about possibly pardoning former President Donald Trump. Haley, the former U.N. ambassador and South Carolina governor, and Hutchinson, the former governor of Arkansas, each appeared on ...

Hunter Biden was spotted in the early hours Friday morning as he arrived at a California airport less than two days after he contradicted his father’s claims about nobody in the Biden family receiving ‘money from China.’ The first son ...