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The European Union has to be able to protect itself “when its openness is abused,” the European Union’s Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said in a speech in China on Saturday....

The International Olympic Committee chief visited athletes in Hangzhou after meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who vowed to work with the IOC on upholding the “non-politicisation” of sport. That meeting...

NEW DELHI, Sept 23 – Social media platform X’s head of policy for India and South Asia, Samiran Gupta, has resigned, two sources said, a top departure that comes ahead...

BATANGAS, Sept 22 – A small but restive volcano near the Philippine capital Manila spewed above average sulfur dioxide and volcanic smog on Friday, prompting authorities to close schools in...

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.  Last week, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the world is “inching ever closer to a great fracture in economic and financial...

SEOUL, Sept 22 – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s branding of critics as “communist totalitarian and anti-state forces” may rally his conservative base and distract from unease about some...

(Bloomberg) — Asian diesel prices climbed after Russia’s surprise export ban, even as a host of market watchers said the curb would soon be lifted. The prohibition — which took...

Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year sent shock waves round the world, particularly in Russia’s immediate neighborhood, where many countries feared they could be next.  Moscow’s full-scale invasion of...

U.S. equity futures signaled a pause in a three-day selloff on Wall Street at the end of a bruising week for investors forced to accept the idea of higher-for-longer interest...

Assad is on his first official trip to China in almost two decades as he seeks financial support to rebuild his devastated country, as well as rehabilitation for his regime...