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FILE - Smoke rises during protests in Noumea, New Caledonia, Wednesday May 15, 2024. Using backhoes to shove aside charred vehicles, French security forces worked Sunday, May 19, 2024, to retake control of the highway to the international airport in violence-scorched New Caledonia, shuttered because of deadly unrest wracking the French South Pacific island where indigenous people have long sought independence from France. (AP Photo/Nicolas Job, File) Macron to visit riot-hit New Caledonia as Australia, New Zealand evacuate nationals
French President Emmanuel Macron will leave Paris for riot-hit Pacific territory New Caledonia "this evening", the government spokeswoman said Tuesday. | Macron "will lea... (photo: AP / Nicolas Job, File) Naharnet
Australia   France   New Caledonia   Photos  
A screen shows an announcement of the AI Seoul Summit in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. World leaders are expected to adopt a new agreement on artificial intelligence when they gather virtually Tuesday to discuss AIs potential risks but also ways to promote its benefits and innovation. World leaders plan new agreement on AI at virtual summit co-hosted by South Korea, UK
World leaders are expected to adopt a new agreement on artificial intelligence when they gather virtually Tuesday to discuss AI’s potential risks but also ways to p... (photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon) Hong Kong Standard
Artificial intelligence   Photos   Seoul   Technology  
In this June 29, 2018, photo, Rohingya refugees look out from their camp near a fence during a government organized media tour to a no-man's land between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Taungpyolatyar village, Maung Daw, northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. ‘Nowhere to go’: Rohingya face arson attacks in Myanmar’s Rakhine State
Fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA) has escalated in the western state of Rakhine in recent days, putting thousands of mostly Muslim Rohingya w... (photo: AP / Min Kyi Thein) Al Jazeera
Human Rights   Myanmar   Photos   Rohingya  
Potential candidates to become members of Thailand's next Senate arrive at the Phaya Thai district office in Bangkok on Monday, May 20, 2024. Thailand on Monday officially kicked off the task of selecting a new set of Senators, a process that has become part of the ongoing war between progressive forces hoping for democratic political reforms and conservatives seeking to keep the status quo. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit) Candidates begin registering in complicated process to select Thailand’s new Senate
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand on Monday officially began the selection of new senators, a process that has become part of an ongoing war between progressive forces hoping for... (photo: AP / Sakchai Lalit) Wtop
Democracy   Elections   Photos   Thailand  
A general view of Yangshan deep-water port is seen Friday, March 5, 2010 in Shanghai, China. Weighing why China is juicing exports
The big economic news this week was Biden’s very large tariffs on a number of Chinese-made goods. Those tariffs appear to have acted as a catalyst for a bunch of other ... (photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko) Asiatimes
China   Economy   Global Trading   Photos  
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te delivers an acceptance speech during his inauguration ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, May 20, 2024. Lai Ching-te was sworn in as Taiwans new president Monday, beginning a term in which he is expected to continue the self-governing islands policy of de facto independence from China while seeking to bolster its defenses against Beijing. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) New president Lai vows to defend Taiwan's democracy
Dene-Hern Chen and Amber Wang May 20, 2024 May 20, 2024 Updated 5 mins ago 0 | Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email | The inauguration ceremony will take place Monday morn... (photo: AP / Chiang Ying-ying) Guam Pacific Daily News
China   Democracy   Photos   Taiwan  
Onlookers watch as SpaceX's mega rocket Starship is prepared for its upcoming launch from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023 Elon Musk launches SpaceX’s satellite internet service in Indonesia
DENPASAR, Indonesia — Elon Musk and Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin launched SpaceX’s satellite internet service for the nation’s health sector on Su... (photo: AP / Eric Gay) Saudi Gazette
Elon Musk   Photos   SpaceX   United States   Wikipedia: SpaceX  
Elon Musk arrives at the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, July 13, 2021 Elon Musk Deepfake Crypto Scam Raises Alarm In Hong Kong, SFC Responds
In a recent advisory, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) issued a stern warning about a cryptocurrency scam involving deepfake technology. This sophist... (photo: AP / Matt Rourke) CoinGape
Elon Musk   Hong Kong   Photos   United States   Wikipedia: Elon Musk  
Ethnic Rohingya refugees stand on their capsized boat as rescuers throw a rope to them off West Aceh, Indonesia, on Thursday, March 21, 2024. The wooden fishing boat carried about 140 Rohingya refugees, but only 75 people were rescued. In interviews with The Associated Press, eight of the survivors described abuses on board. Who are the Rohingya and what is happening in Myanmar?
Fresh outbreak of violence after decades of ethnic tensions has prompted tens of thousands of people to flee to Bangladesh Described as the world’s most persecuted peop... (photo: AP / Reza Saifullah) The Guardian
Human Rights   Myanmar   Photos   Rohingya Genocide   Wikipedia: Rohingya genocide  
File - Elon Musk founder, CEO, and chief engineer/designer of SpaceX jokes with reporters as he pretends to search for an answer to a question on a cell phone during a news conference after a Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket test flight to demonstrate the capsule's emergency escape system at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. Elon Musk pushes plan for Chinese data to power Tesla’s self-driving cars
Shanghai/Singapore — Tesla is pushing ahead with plans to power the global development of its self-driving system with data from China that could be processed within th... (photo: AP / John Raoux, File) Business Day
Chinese   Elon Musk   Photos   Teslas   Wikipedia: Elon Musk  
Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin review the honor guard during an official welcome ceremony in Beijing, China, Thursday, May 16, 2024. Putin and Xi vow to step up fight to counter US ‘containment’
China's President Xi Jinping, left, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, right, attend an official welcoming ceremony Thursday in front of the Great Hall of the People ... (photo: AP / Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) West Hawaii Today
China   Photos   Russia   US Foreign Policy   Wikipedia: ChinaRussia relations  
A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea's missile launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, May 17, 2024. North Korea fired a ballistic missile off its east coast on Friday, South Korea's military said, a day after South Korea and the U.S. flew powerful fighter jets for a joint drill that the North views as a major security threat. North Korea test-fires suspected missiles a day after US and South Korea conduct a fighter jet drill
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired suspected short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Friday, South Korea’s military said, a day after South Kore... (photo: AP / Ahn Young-joon) North Shore News
Kim Jong Un   N Korea   Photos   US Foreign Policy   Wikipedia: North Korea and weapons of mass destruction  
Demonstrators hold Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) flags during a gathering in Paris, Thursday May.16, 2024. Violence raged across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day Thursday, hours after France imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory, boosting security forces' powers to quell unrest in the archipelago that has long sought independence. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla) New Caledonia says situation ‘calmer’ after state of emergency imposed
Authorities in New Caledonia have described the situation in the French Pacific territory as “calmer” after Paris declared a state of emergency in response to violenc... (photo: AP / Thomas Padilla) Al Jazeera
France   New Caledonia   Pacific   Photos  
Statue of Chiang Kai-shek in Yangmingshan National Park, Taiwan. Chiang's legacy has been the target of heated debates because of the different views held about him. Taiwan grapples with divisive history as new president prepares for power
Taipei, Taiwan – Even as Taiwan prepares for the inauguration of its eighth president next week, it continues to struggle over the legacy of the island’s first presid... (photo: Creative Commons / Bernard Gagnon) Al Jazeera
China   Photos   Politics   Taiwan  
FILE - French gendarme patrol at a roundabout in Noumea, New Caledonia, Sunday Dec.12, 2021. At least two people were killed and three were seriously injured overnight in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia, French officials there said Wednesday, May 15, 2024, as President Emmanuel Macron convened a meeting of top ministers to discuss the spiraling violence. (AP Photo/Clotilde Richalet, File) State of emergency takes effect in New Caledonia after four killed in riots
France has declared a state of emergency in its Pacific island territory of New Caledonia and deployed police and military reinforcements in an attempt to end days of unr... (photo: AP / Clotilde Richalet, File) Al Jazeera
Elections   France   New Caledonia   Photos