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This article was first published on February 26, 2021. By Mimi Lau Xi claims victory in eliminating extreme poverty China has declared com­plete suc­cess in elim­in­at­ing extreme poverty, with Pres­id­ent Xi Jin­ping hail­ing the lift­ing of 850 mil­lion people out of des­ti­tu­tion as an “unpre­ced­en­ted accom­plish­ment” unmatched by any nation in mod­ern his­tory. In a speech at a cere­mony in Beijing yes­ter­day (February 25, 2021) to com­mend poverty fight­ers, broad­cast live by state...

Iranian actor Amirali Danaei has left Iran, denouncing the Islamic republic as a dictatorship after a deadly crackdown on protests. Once a state-TV star, he now vows never to work under the clerical system again, calling the crisis a human tragedy where “human lives are not up for negotiation.”

For the first State of the Union address of his second term, US President Donald Trump decided to go long, broaching everything from the economy to Iran during his one hour and 47 minute speech to Congress.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was under pressure on Wednesday after it emerged she gave congratulatory gift catalogues to lawmakers from her ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) following its landslide election victory this month. Each of her party’s 315 MPs was given the option to choose an item from the catalogue “as an expression of appreciation for their success at this very tough election”, Takaichi wrote in a social media post, saying that no taxpayer money was used. The...

US President Donald Trump used the longest State of the Union address in US history to repeat the threat of military action against Iran if diplomacy fails -- and pledged to keep negotiating to end the war in Ukraine.

The rebuttal to Donald Trump's State of the Union was delivered Tuesday by a stalwart of the Democrats' moderate wing -- seen as a model for the centrism some bet is key to winning November's midterm elections.

Ejections, shouting and hockey players - here's what happened during Trump's State of the Union address.

The rebuttal - first delivered in 1966 - is often given by rising stars in the opposition party.

Por VALERIE GONZALEZ McALLEN, Texas, EE.UU. (AP) — Defensores legales presentaron el martes una moción con la que buscan impedir que agentes de la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de Estados Unidos (CBP, por sus siglas en inglés) insten a los menores migrantes que ingresan al país sin sus padres a deportarse voluntariamente en […]

Declaring "a turnaround for the ages," President Donald Trump offered a version of America's standing in his State of the Union address Tuesday night that is at odds with the perceptions of the electorate.

Police discover human remains in the case of widower and grandfather Chris Baghsarian who was forcibly taken from his residence

Por AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON (AP) — El discurso sobre el Estado de la Unión del presidente Donald Trump se inclinó en gran medida hacia los asuntos internos, pero también expuso ante los estadounidenses su argumento a favor de sus esfuerzos de política exterior, en un momento en que crece la inquietud sobre sus prioridades. El […]