Jake Kwon,Seoul correspondentand Koh Ewe EPA/Shutterstock Lee Jae Myung took a selfie with Xi Jinping during his visit to Beijing South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung has called for a “new phase” in ties with China as he met its leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday. Regional security and lifting Beijing’s unofficial ban on…
The survivor of a gang rape in the northern Indian state of Haryana has been discharged from hospital a week after her horrific assault, a police official told the BBC. The 26-year-old mother-of-two was taken to hospital in Faridabad city on the morning of 30 December with serious head and facial injuries and several fractures….
Getty Images Supporters of the bill argue that hate speech can lead to real-life violence Can a law help curb hate speech in India? That’s what the southern state of Karnataka is betting on. Last month, legislators passed a bill which aims to prevent hate speech and hate crimes that fuel communal tension or target…
Laura BickerChina correspondent, Beijing Miraflores Palace via Reuters Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro (L) and Chinese president Xi Jinping have enjoyed an amicable relationship in recent years – pictured here during a state visit to Beijing in 2023 It took just a few hours for Donald Trump to upend a relationship that China had been cultivating…
Geeta PandeyBBC Correspondent, Delhi 120 Bahadur team The film stars Bollywood actor Farhan Akhtar in the lead role of Major Shaitan Singh A recent Bollywood film has put the spotlight on a largely forgotten battle from the 1962 war between India and China. Called 120 Bahadur – Hindi for brave hearts – the film tells…
A British man living in Western Australia is set to be deported over claims that he was part of a well-known neo-Nazi group. Ryan Turner’s visa was cancelled on character grounds and he was taken into immigration detention on Tuesday. He can appeal the decision to cancel his visa or voluntarily return to the UK….
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a royal commission, the country’s most powerful form of independent inquiry, into last month’s shooting at Bondi Beach. The attack targeting a Jewish festival left 15 people dead, making it one of the deadliest in the country’s history. Albanese had previously argued that reforms on gun ownership and…
Cambodia says it has extradited to China a billionaire businessman accused of masterminding a vast cryptocurrency scam in which trafficked workers were lured to forced labour camps to defraud victims globally. Chen Zhi was among three Chinese nationals arrested on 6 January after a joint investigation into transnational crime lasting several months, Cambodia said. The…
Watch: Video appears to show part of Yayang Church being taken down An influential Protestant church in China says prominent leaders have been arrested in what appears to be a growing crackdown on the underground church movement. Nine people were detained on Tuesday after police raided their homes and the church office in Chengdu, in…
Six whales have died on a remote beach in New Zealand’s South Island following a mass stranding and volunteers are racing against time to get 15 others that are still alive back to the sea. Some 55 pilot whales washed up on Farewell Spit on Thursday. While most managed to make their way back out…