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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2018, file photo, Elon Musk, founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX, speaks at a news conference after the Falcon 9 SpaceX heavy rocket launched successfully from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Musk's X Says Posts of Australia Bishop Stabbing Don't Promote Violence
By Byron KayeSYDNEY (Reuters) - Elon Musk's social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a... ... ... (photo: AP / John Raoux) US News
Byron Kaye   Elon Musk   Photos   United States   Wikipedia: Elon Musk  
New North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang after reviewing a parade of thousands of soldiers and commemorating the 70th birthday of the late Kim Jong Il on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012. Kim Jong Un tested a new rocket that could hit Seoul — and may aid ...
The Korean People's Army conducts an artillery firing drill in North Korea. | KCNA via ReutersKim Jong Un oversaw tests for a rocket capable of hitting Seoul in South Kor... (photo: AP / David Guttenfelder) Business Insider
Alexander Zemlianichenko   Kim Jong Un   North Korea   Photos   Wikipedia: Kim Jong Un  
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with China's Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, Friday, April 26, 2024, in Beijing, China. China warns diplomatic ties with US could face 'downward spiral' as Blinken visits Beijing
China's foreign minister on Friday urged visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to address rising disagreements or risk a "downward spiral" between the two powers ... (photo: AP / Mark Schiefelbein, Pool) France24
Antony Blinken   China   Photos   US Foreign Policy   Wikipedia: ChinaUnited States relations  
Young people gather to register to volunteer to fight for the country as part of a volunteer initiative, in Niamey, Niger, Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023 U.S. Loses Soft Power Edge in Africa
This article is the second in a series detailing the results from the latest Rating World Leaders report, which analyzes trends in approval ratings of the leadership of t... (photo: AP / Sam Mednick) Gallup
Africa   China   Photos   Politics  
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, Tuesday, March 22, 2022 Why is Elon Musk feuding with Australia and Brazil over free speech?
Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed free speech absolutist and CEO of X, Tesla, and SpaceX, is once again at the centre of a heated debate about free speech and censorship. | ... (photo: AP / Patrick Pleul) Al Jazeera
Australia   Brazil   Photos   Social Media  
Mahathir Mohamad, center, speaks to the media at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Wednesday, May 9, 2018. Malaysia’s ex-PM Mahathir faces anticorruption probe
Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is being investigated in connection with a corruption probe involving his sons, the country’s anticorruption agency ... (photo: AP / Vincent Thian) Al Jazeera
Asia   Corruption   Malaysia   Photos  
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, talks with Shanghai Party Secretary Chen Jining at the Grand Halls, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Shanghai, China. In China, Blinken Tries to Fix the Unfixable
It could almost have been a vacation. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Shanghai on Wednesday to be whisked to a basketball game and a dinner of steamed b... (photo: AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool / Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) Time
China   Photos   Politics   US States  
ST. LOUIS (May 29, 2021) Chief Fire Controlman Jacob Boyles, a recruiter assigned to Navy Talent Acquisition Group (NTAG) Mid America, carries U.S. flags at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery during a Memorial Day flag laying commemoration, May 29, 2021. The US Is no longer the arsenal of democracy
For the first several decades after World War II, the United States championed free trade. Exporting sectors like agriculture benefited from it. Many economists still sup... (photo: US Navy / Chris Williamson) Asiatimes
Democracy   Photos   Politics   US States  
Activists marking five years since the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange demonstrate outside Belmarsh Prison in London, Sunday, April 14, 2024. U.S. President Joe Biden said last week that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long U.S. push to prosecute Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents. Assange is currently fighting extradition to the U.S. from Belmarsh, where he is being held. Assange Assurances: An Australian Response
The Australian government has been relatively quiet on the U.S. assurances on Julian Assange. CN Live! speaks to an Australian senator, lawyer and former diplomat for the... (photo: AP / David Cliff) Consortium News
Julian Assange   Photos   Press Freedom   WikiLeaks   Wikipedia: Julian Assange  
Secretary of State Antony Blinken participates in a Open Forum on Fentanyl with Maggie Nardi at the State Department in Washington, DC July, 17 20203. US top diplomat Blinken visits China amid escalated tensions over Taiwan
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in China for a three-day trip, following Senate approval of a foreign aid package that will provide billions of dollars i... (photo: Public Domain / Chuck Kennedy) Al Jazeera
China   Photos   Politics   US States  
An advertisement of Bitcoin, one of the cryptocurrencies, is displayed on a building in Hong Kong, on Nov. 18, 2021 April 30 set for historic launch of Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs in Hong Kong
Quick Take | In a significant development for the digital assets market, Hong Kong has officially approved the launch of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for both Bitcoin and... (photo: AP / Kin Cheung) Cryptoslate
Cryptocurrency   Global Trading   Hong Kong   Photos  
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken talks with U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns, center, with U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai Scott Walker, right, while attending a basketball game between the Shanghai Sharks and the Zhejiang Golden Bulls at the Shanghai Indoor Stadium, Wednesday, April 24, 2024, in Shanghai, China. Blinken back in China seeking pressure but also stability
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is greeted by at the Kong Fuan, Director General of the Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office, U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic o... (photo: AP / Mark Schiefelbein, Pool) Korea Times
Antony Blinken   China   Photos   US Foreign Policy   Wikipedia: ChinaUnited States relations  
FILE - Tesla CEO Elon Musk departs from the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Musk v Australia heats up as church stabbing raids target network of allegedly radicalized teens
In one camp is a tech billionaire with more than 181 million followers on his own social network. In the other, political leaders representing a country of just 26 millio... (photo: AP / Matt Rourke, file) CNN
Australia   Censorship   Elon Musk   Photos  
FILE - Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu speaks during a plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Dec. 1, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. India says it has started pulling out dozens of its military personnel in Maldives and replacing them with civilian technical staff who will operate three aircraft from India that provide humanitarian services. ‘Absolute power’: After pro-China Maldives leader’s big win, what’s next?
Very few expected Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu’s party to win Sunday’s parliamentary elections, that too by a landslide. For this was a man whose triumph in the... (photo: AP / Rafiq Maqbool, File) Al Jazeera
China   Democracy   Maldives   Photos   Wikipedia: Mohamed Muizzu  
In this photo provided by the Mayor of Odesa Hennadii Trukhanov in Telegram, firefighters work on the site of a burning building after a Russian drone attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. US approves $95bn aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
The US Congress has given final approval to a $95 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, with President Joe Biden quickly vowing to sign the long-delayed bil... (photo: AP / Mayor of Odesa Hennadii Trukhanov via AP) RTE
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict   Photos   Taiwan   Ukraine War   Wikipedia: Russo-Ukrainian War  
Rice terraces in Muong Khuong (Lao Cai, Vietnam). May 13, 2010. In Vietnam, farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice
There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van's rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam'... (photo: Creative Commons / Bi Thy o Nguyn/https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:B%C3%B9i_Th%E1%BB%A5y_%C4%90%C3%A0o_Nguy%C3%AAn) Phys Dot Org
Environment   Methane emissions   Photos   Vietnam  
Residents rest near an area exposed after floods sweep through a village on the outskirts of Beijing, Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. Heavy rain and high water levels on rivers in northeastern China were threatening cities downstream on Friday, prompting the evacuation of thousands, although the country appears to have averted the worst effects of the typhoon season battering parts of east Asia. China evacuates over 100,000 as heavy rain continues to lash south
China has evacuated more than 100,000 people as heavy rain continues to lash the southern province of Guangdong. | Authorities raised the highest level of alarm on Tuesda... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan) Al Jazeera
China   Guangdong   Photos   Weather  
Youngsters wade through a flooded street caused by heavy rain in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, April 15, 2024. Lightening and heavy rains killed dozens of people, mostly farmers, across Pakistan in the past three days, officials said Monday, as authorities declared a state of emergency in the country's southwest following an overnight rainfall to avoid any further casualties and damages. Asia bears biggest climate-change brunt amid extreme weather: WMO
Asia was the region most affected by climate change, weather and water-related hazards globally last year, the United Nations weather agency has said. | In a report publi... (photo: AP / Muhammad Sajjad) Al Jazeera
Climate Change   Extreme Weather   Natural Disaster   Photos   Wikipedia: Climate change  
Aerial view of city buildings during nighttime, Taipei, Taiwan Sleepless night in Taiwan as island rattled by cluster of aftershocks
Taiwan has been rattled by a cluster of dozens of earthquakes that caused buildings to sway and that the government said were aftershocks from the huge quake that hit the... (photo: Creative Commons) Al Jazeera
Asia   Earthquakes   Photos   Taiwan  
Elon Musk, CEO of X, the company formerly known as Twitter, fixes his jacket as he arrives for a closed-door gathering of leading tech CEOs to discuss the priorities and risks surrounding artificial intelligence and how it should be regulated, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023 ‘Arrogant billionaire’: Australia, Musk in war of words over censorship
Australia and Elon Musk have escalated their war of words over censorship after an Australian court ordered social media platform X to remove footage of a church stabbing... (photo: AP / Jacquelyn Martin) Al Jazeera
Australia   Censorship   Elon Musk   Photos