Ronaldo, Messi lead Saudi Arabia’s makeover

SAUDI ARABIA’s tab for using icons of western popular culture to enhance its stature and sway on the global stage could soon

Bankers on edge as Wall Street prepares for US debt default

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON — As talks over raising the US government’s $31.4-trillion debt ceiling go down to the wire, Wall Street banks and

Animal health body backs bird flu vaccination to avoid pandemic

PARIS — Governments should consider vaccinating poultry against bird flu, which has killed hundreds of millions of birds and infected mammals worldwide,

Beijing chides Japan, Britain and ‘anti-China’ G7 summit

BEIJING/TOKYO – State-backed Chinese mouthpiece Global Times called the G7 an “anti-China workshop” on Monday, after Beijing summoned Japan’s envoy and berated Britain in a fiery response

Modi, Blinken meet Pacific Island leaders in Papua New Guinea

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged support for the Pacific Islands at a summit in Papua New Guinea on Monday, with the US Secretary of State scheduled to also meet Pacific leaders and sign

China issues guidance for basic elderly care system by 2025

BEIJING – China has issued guidance to all provinces to build a basic elderly care system by 2025, state-run Xinhua news agency said on Sunday, in the latest step to prevent a demographic

Biden and McCarthy to meet on Monday as debt ceiling talks resume

WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden and House Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy will meet to discuss the debt ceiling on Monday, after

G7 leaders offer Ukraine long-term support

HIROSHIMA — Leaders of the world’s richest democracies said on Sunday they would not back down from supporting Ukraine, in a warning

S. Korea’s Yoon praises Japan’s Kishida for his efforts to mend ties

HIROSHIMA — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Sunday that Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s expression of compassion for those

Sick of sewage, thousands of Britons protest at water companies’ pollution

BRIGHTON, England — Thousands of Britons took to the sea and rivers on Saturday to demand an end to sewage pollution by