Taliban’s priorities to govern: reconciliation, devt, recognition
New govt ‘won’t be more moderate’ than existing Sunni Islamic nations Afghan people stand in a queue as they wait for their turn to collect money from an ATM…
Harris lands in Singapore after US Afghan fiasco, wooing will be ‘ineffective’
US Vice President Kamala Harris steps off Air Force Two as she arrives at Paya Lebar Base airport in Singapore on Sunday. Photo: AFP By Wang Qi About…
Yokohama mayor poll crucial for PM’s future
Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is seen on a live TV broadcast in Tokyo's Shinjuku area on Thursday, after Japan announced that a virus state of emergency in…
Haiti faces post-quake anger and despair
Deteriorating security situation casts heavy shadow over relief efforts Image taken with a mobile device shows a damaged building after the earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, on Aug. 15,…
Hurricane Henri bearing down on US East Coast
Two Americans peer into a flooded street in front of their hotel as Hurricane Sally passed through the area on Wednesday local time in Pensacola, Florida. The storm…
PLA Rocket Force holds live-fire drills, testing new-type conventional missiles
The 1st Conventional Missile Brigade attached to the PLA Rocket Force recently launched two new-type missiles in a confrontational exercise held in deserts in Northwest China. Photo: Screenshot from…
Taiwan defense authority’s special missile budget futile to change status quo, to bring trouble on island: experts
By Liu Xuanzun A cluster of attack helicopters attached to a brigade under the PLA 81st Group Army lift off successively and fly to a predetermined operational area at ultra-low…
Chinese ambassador calls for cooperation among scientists, gov’ts in COVID-19 origins-tracing
A staff member handles nucleic acid testing samples at a novel coronavirus detection lab in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, Feb. 22, 2020.Photo:Xinhua COVID-19 origins tracing is a…
Lithuania pushes itself into isolation by being a ‘chess piece’ over US’ Taiwan card: experts
View of Vilnius, capital of Lithuania Photo: VCG By Ma Jingjing Direct rail links between China and Lithuania may be suspended, said Yuyuan Tantian, a social media account…
Biden nominates Burns as ambassador to China, one month after Qin Gang arrived for post
Nicholas Burns Photo:CFP By GT staff reporters US President Joe Biden formally nominated veteran US diplomat Nicholas Burns to serve as the next US ambassador to China, one month…