Category: 2. World

A court in eastern China has sentenced a former city official to death for taking more than 2.2bn yuan ($325m; £243m) in bribes over 30 years.

Yang Youlin, who served in various positions in Nanjing city from 1993 to 2023, was also convicted of…

The campaign targets have been high profile.

St Petersburg was hit with drones ahead of Putin’s showpiece economic forum in June. Then there were strikes on Moscow itself, creating explosion videos that went viral.

Now there’s a confirmed hit on an…

A reservoir wall broke in Nanning, China, sending out a torrent of water after rivers swelled from the passage of a typhoon. At least two people have been killed by flooding due to Typhoon Maysak, officials have said. The city’s emergency flood…

A Kenyan court initially suspended the country’s deal after legal challenges demanding protection of patient privacy.

Arnold Kavaarpuo, executive director of Ghana’s Data Protection Commission, told the BBC the government in Accra had objected to…

“I want to say one sentence to President Trump and the world,” declared a grey-haired man named Mojtaba, who came to us saying he had a message.

“Soon, very soon you will see signs of revenge at the top of the White House, and soon the colour of…

The prisons these men helped run are part of a detention system in which the UN’s human rights office (OHCHR) says the torture and ill-treatment of civilians is “systematic and widespread”.

It says former detainees describe beatings, electric…

The film has had an unusually long and difficult journey to release.

It was originally titled, external Ghallughara, a Punjabi term associated with some of the darkest episodes in Sikh history.

It refers to the mass killings of Sikhs by Mughal…

Chinese companies are expanding globally, and fast. Their biggest commercial competitors are in the US.

Waymo, Alphabet’s robotaxi business, remains the commercial leader, operating paid driverless services in several US cities. Amazon-owned Zoox…