Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou returned to China Saturday shortly after two Canadians released from prison in China also arrived in Calgary, ending a bitter diplomatic row that has poisoned ties for three years.Meng and the two Canadians – former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor – were detained in a bitter spat that critics have called "hostage diplomacy". Meng, the 49-year-old daughter of Ren Zhengfei, the billionaire founder of Chinese telecoms giant

The basic text making the case for an international-relations rulebook was provided by the ancient Greek historian Thucydides in his account of the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century BCE.

President Joe Biden pledged Tuesday to "double" United States (US) contributions towards a goal of mobilizing US$100 billion for countries hardest-hit by global warming, a move hailed as a rare piece of good news in the climate crisis.Experts said the announcement would take the American contribution to the commitment, made by developed countries ahead of the 2015 Paris agreement, to approximately US$11.4 billion annually."This will make the United States a leader in public cli

Despite all the scientific and medical advances of the past 103 years, the COVID-19 pandemic has now killed more Americans than the 1918 flu pandemic did.More than 675,000 people in the United States (US) have died from COVID-19, according to Johns Hopkins University.

While COVID-19's origin story is currently defined by a lack of hard evidence and data, scientists around the world continue their search for answers to how the pandemic began.As the world approaches the two-year mark since this novel coronavirus was first detected, there have been many twists and turns in the investigation into the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the pandemic.

France on Saturday accused Australia and the United States (US) of lying in a crisis over a security pact that saw Canberra scrap a contract to buy French submarines in favour of American vessels."There has been lying, duplicity, a major breach of trust and contempt," French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France 2 television.

The Taliban on Tuesday thanked the world for pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency aid to Afghanistan, and urged the United States (US) to show "heart" to the impoverished country.A donor conference in Geneva on Monday ended with pledges of US$1.2 billion in aid for Afghanistan, which was taken over by the hard-line Islamist group last month in a lightning offensive that took retreating US troops by surprise.Afghanistan, already heavily dependent on aid, is facing an

The American-led global war on terror, launched 20 years ago after the 11 September 2001, attacks against the United States (US), was already faltering before President Joe Biden took office. Now it may not recover from the blow delivered by Biden’s historic blunder in facilitating the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan.By empowering the Taliban, Biden has empowered all violent Islamist groups, thus making the rebirth of global terror highly likely.

Fully vaccinated people were 11 times less likely to die of COVID and 10 times less likely to be hospitalised compared to the unvaccinated since highly contagious Delta became the most common variant, United States (US) health authorities said Friday. The data came from one of three new papers published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), all of which underscored COVID vaccines' ongoing effectiveness against severe outcomes.For reasons that are not yet well

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the 11 September, terrorist attacks on the United States (US).