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Growth momentum in the mainland car market may shift from battery-powered to petrol-based models this year on account of a revised subsidy policy, exacerbating a bearish profit outlook for the country’s 50-odd electric vehicle (EV) builders. Slower growth in EV adoption would deal another heavy blow to assemblers from BYD to Leapmotor, which are known for low-priced cars, after big-name international banks reduced forecasts for car deliveries this year. “Petroleum-powered cars will regain market...

When contemporary Europe engages with the world, it increasingly presents as two distinct Europes operating within the same institutional framework. This duality – a Europe of strategic dependence vs a Europe of normative assertion – creates a contradiction. For partners, particularly in China and across Asia, this is not merely an abstract identity crisis but a practical geopolitical puzzle that complicates engagement and challenges assumptions about Europe’s global role. One Europe, embedded...

Sale Sharks sign Wales international Tomas Francis on a two-year deal from the start of next season.

Hong Kong police shot and injured a man after he brandished a meat cleaver in Tuen Mun neighbourhood. The incident occurred at around 7pm along Tuen Hi Road near Tuen Mun Town Hall, where the man was seen carrying the knife. An officer responding to the scene opened fire, with two shots believed to have been fired near a convenience store at Tuen Mun Town Plaza, according to a source. A police spokesman said the man was unconscious when he was taken to Tuen Mun Hospital. A video circulating...

It was an unexpected finish to a mission that began in August and left the International Space Station with only three on board.

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Exclusive: 25 years after the programme – widely seen as being characterised by violence and economic chaos – was introduced, new research finds that it has helped smallholder farmers become more resilient to the climate crisis

Another shooting involving a federal officer is causing chaos in Minneapolis with protestors gathering at the scene, setting off fireworks and throwing rocks at police. The Department of Homeland Security says federal officers stopped an immigrant from Venezuela who allegedly resisted arrest. DHS claimed two other people joined the struggle and the original target began striking the officer with “a shovel or broomstick” adding the officer was “fearing for his life” and fired, hitting the

Smoke filled the street Wednesday night near the site of the latest shooting as federal officers wearing gas masks and helmets fired tear gas into a crowd while protesters threw rocks and shot fireworks.

Iran has been a major supplier of military equipment to Russia in recent years, especially since the Kremlin launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, but experts have told RFE/RL that this support no longer plays a key role in Moscow's war effort.

Free Malaysia Today (FMT) has issued an apology after one of its reporters posed a question during a public lecture that was believed to have carried racial overtones. In a statement on Wednesday, FMT said that the incident occurred during a public lecture featuring United Kingdom politician George Galloway titled “Gaza Exposes the Complicity of International Actors” held on January 12. “FMT wishes to put on record that it had no prior knowledge of the journalist’s intention to raise the...

Dragons bring back their leading players for the bid to make the last 16 of the Challenge Cup when they face Newcastle at Rodney Parade.