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VELIKE štete koje u Europi uzrokuju sve nepredvidljivije vremenske prilike netko će morati platiti, a budući da je većina tih gospodarskih gubitaka neosigurana, troškovi će vjerojatno morati biti pokriveni iz državnih blagajni.

Zapadni vojni stručnjaci upozoravaju na mogućnost scenarija za koji, tvrdi američki novinar Simon Shuster, SAD i Europa nemaju dovoljno razrađen plan. Moskva bi napala članicu NATO-a u istočnoj Europi, dok bi Peking istodobno krenuo na Tajvan

A Hong Kong court has ordered the defunct Apple Daily newspaper to pay HK$1.5 million in damages to a listed company and two senior executives over 10 defamatory articles that accused them of spying on the city’s pro-democracy activists at Beijing’s behest. In a written judgment …

A man from eastern China has spent a decade travelling with his partially paralysed wife, claiming that life on the road has made her “100 times” more spirited. Liu Peijin, 69, a former serviceman from Weifang in Shandong province, dedicated 18 years to the military, much of that…

Taiwan’s army has for the first time used first-person view (FPV) drones against armoured vehicles in a live-fire exercise, adopting tactics pioneered during the Ukraine war to strengthen its asymmetric capabilities against the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The exercise on Mond…

China’s most senior general Zhang Shengmin has invoked the late former president Jiang Zemin’s response to the collapse of the Soviet Union and first Gulf war in an article emphasising the importance of party unity and military reform in the face of external threats. This month h…

Club’s board meets on Tuesday night to decide penalties after league boss calls reports ‘deeply concerning’ The Sydney Swans AFL club will sanction players for “serious breach” of standards over an incident that led to a report of sexual assault. Victorian police on Tuesday confi…

The Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) has urged the government to introduce tax incentives to help develop the Northern Metropolis and to improve the stock exchange’s listing regime to further cement the city’s role in international finance. The organis…

The People’s Liberation Army used a drone to deliver cases of cash and gold bars in a field during a “wartime financial support” drill apparently simulating a Taiwan operation, according to a state media report. A multi-rotor drone was used to drop the camouflage cases at designa…

Chinese tech giant Baidu on Tuesday posted a 4 per cent year-on-year decline in second-quarter revenue, as continued weakness in advertising outweighed growth in its artificial intelligence cloud operations, highlighting intensifying competition in China’s tech sector. Revenue fo…

Hong Kong’s population rose slightly by 0.3 per cent year on year to more than 7.5 million by mid-2026 but the number of babies born fell by 15.6 per cent to below 30,000 for the first time on record, despite government incentives to boost the birth rate. The government on Tuesda…

Neither region can compete directly with China and the United States, but together they have the potential to show how middle powers can shape the AI economy.

Europe is learning to adapt to a hotter climate. It should take the same approach to economic dependencies: manage the consequences, but also change the conditions that created them

SJEVERNA Koreja planira poslati do 50.000 vojnika u Rusiju kao pomoć u ratu protiv Ukrajine. Unatoč teškim gubicima, Pjongjang jača suradnju s Moskvom, stječući ratno iskustvo i testirajući oružje.

Chinese President Xi Jinping led the party elite to pay a final tribute to former premier Zhu Rongji who was cremated on Tuesday as national flags were lowered to half mast. Zhu, who died of an illness in Beijing last Wednesday aged 97, served as premier from 1998 to 2003 and is …

When the Hong Kong stock exchange launched five-year China government bond futures on August 3, it did more than simply expand the city’s derivatives product suite. As the only China government bond futures in the offshore market, the contract deserves attention as it finally giv…

Former Ibac head welcomes potential change that could capture actions that currently cannot be used to make corrupt findings Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Ben Carroll has committed to changing the definition of “corruption” before the Victorian elec…

Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown’s securing of another term, despite a dispute with New Zealand over his government’s deals with China, suggests voters are more focused on the cost of living than geopolitical concerns, analysts have said. Brown’s Cook Islands Party is on tr…

Beijing's new 'Ice Silk Road' cuts through a melting Arctic, and could prompt fresh tensions with the US, say analysts.

Albania’s government plans to cut the number of municipalities from 61 to 46, but critics fear it will only further isolate rural communities from public services and undermine environmental protections.

MOSKVA je zaprijetila Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu "posljedicama" nakon izvješća da su britanski dronovi prvi put korišteni u ukrajinskom napadu na ciljeve duboko na teritoriju Rusije.

A top naval software expert, whose work helped warships to process battlefield information and support combat decisions, has vanished from the Chinese Academy of Engineering’s online membership list. Zhao Xiaozhe, 63, a vice-admiral in the PLA Navy, once headed the Central Milita…

Hong Kong’s labour minister has said authorities aim to complete a revamp of the city’s heat-stress warning system by the end of this month, following criticism that the alert level was not increased during record-breaking temperatures. Secretary for Labour and Welfare Chris Sun …

China cut its holdings of US Treasuries to a nearly 18-year low in June, as Beijing continued to diversify its foreign exchange reserves amid heightened geopolitical tensions and growing uncertainty over the policy outlook in the United States. Holdings fell to US$633.4 billion i…

Labor’s bill to restrict gambling ads is set to pass this week, with the Greens calling the agreement ‘cowardly’ Two Coalition MPs have crossed the floor after a deal between the major parties to pass Labor’s new restrictions on betting advertising and inducements, which the MPs …