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Professor Laura Murphy says her academic freedom was traded for access to the Chinese student market
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
LONDON — China waged a campaign of harassment and intimidation directed at a UK university to get it to shut down sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses, documents seen by the BBC show.Sheffield Hallam University staff in China were threatened by individuals described by them as being from China's National Security Service who demanded the research being done in Sheffield be halted.And access to the university's websites from China was blocked, impeding its ability to recruit Chinese students, in a campaign of threats and intimidation lasting more than two years.In an internal email from July 2024, university officials said "attempting to retain the business in China and publication of the research are now untenable bedfellows".When the UK government learned of the...
November 03, 2025

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show

The countries say the agreement will enhance coordination, information sharing and tech cooperation
India and US sign 10-year defense pact amid tariff turmoil
MUMBAI — India and the US have signed a framework agreement to expand defense cooperation over the next 10 years.The pact was announced after a meeting between US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his Indian counterpart Rajnath Singh in Kuala Lumpur.The agreement will enhance "coordination, information sharing and tech cooperation" and advance "regional stability and deterrence", Hegseth said on X.It comes as the two countries are trying to close a trade deal and tide over tense ties after US President Donald Trump slapped 50% tariffs on India, including a 25% penalty for buying Russian oil and arms.The agreement is expected to provide policy direction to the entire spectrum of the India-US defense relationship."It is a signal of our growing strategic convergence and will herald a new...
October 31, 2025

India and US sign 10-year defense pact amid tariff turmoil

A yellow sign propped on a road that read: Beware of bears
Japan plans to hire hunters as bear attacks rise
TOKYO — The Japanese government plans to recruit hunters to cull bears, as anxiety grows in the country over the rise a sharp rise in bear attacks.The environment ministry said on Thursday that it would set aside funds to hire licenced hunters and other personnel to tackle bears that have been wandering into residential areas and attacking people.The move is among measures proposed on Thursday, after the country held a high-level meeting to address the country's growing bear problem.Twelve people have died in bear attacks this year - the highest the country has recorded since it started tracking cases in the 2000s.They include a man who had been delivering newspapers in Hokkaido and a 67-year-old man found dead in his garden in Iwate.The government, which have described bears as a...
October 31, 2025

Japan plans to hire hunters as bear attacks rise

Many women in the relief camps are crocheting and selling dolls to earn a little extra income to support their families
Families in violence-hit Indian state fear resettlement deadline
GUWAHATI — Thousands of people displaced by ethnic clashes in India's north-eastern state of Manipur two years ago now face an uncertain future, as the government plans to shut down all temporary relief camps by December.The violence, which erupted in May 2023 between the majority Meitei and the indigenous Kuki communities, was the worst the region had witnessed in decades.It started after protests by the largely Christian Kuki community against the Meiteis, mostly Hindus, who were demanding official tribal status that would grant them access to the same government benefits and job quotas as other tribes, including Kukis.At least 260 people were killed in the clashes and around 60,000 displaced people have since been living in temporary shelters.Over the past two years, the...
October 31, 2025

Families in violence-hit Indian state fear resettlement deadline

Gareth Ward
Former Australian politician jailed for sex crimes
SYDNEY — A former Australian politician convicted of sexually abusing two young men he met through work has been sentenced to five years and nine months in jail.Gareth Ward, 44, has been in prison since July after a jury found him guilty of raping one man and indecently assaulting another, in separate incidents in 2013 and 2015.Ward represented the coastal town of Kiama in the New South Wales (NSW) parliament from 2011. He resigned as a Liberal Party minister when the claims emerged in 2021 but refused to quit parliament and was re-elected in 2023.Judge Kara Shead SC considered Ward's disability of legal blindness in her sentence and found "no other penalty other than imprisonment is appropriate".Ward, who appeared via video-link at Parramatta District Court, will serve at least...
October 31, 2025

Former Australian politician jailed for sex crimes

Ben Austin, 17, died after being struck by a cricket ball during training
Teenage cricketer dies in Melbourne after being hit by ball
SYDNEY — An Australian teenager has died after he was hit by a cricket ball during a practice session in Melbourne.Ben Austin, 17, was training - with a helmet but no neck guard - in cricket nets in Ferntree Gully on Tuesday when he was hit in the neck by a ball thrown using a handheld ball launcher.Emergency workers attended the scene around 17:00 local time (06:00 GMT) before Ben was rushed to hospital in critical condition. He was put on life support but died on Thursday.Ben's dad Jace Austin said the family was "utterly devastated" by the death of "our beautiful Ben" while Cricket Victoria said the cricketing community across the country would be mourning the teenager's death.In a statement, Jace Austin shared details of his family's loss."For Tracey and I, Ben was an...
October 30, 2025

Teenage cricketer dies in Melbourne after being hit by ball

US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping shake hands at the start of talks at the Gimhae Air Base in Busan, South Korea
Trump and Xi meet for first time in six years as world watches where crippling trade war will go next
BUSAN/BEIJING — Chinese leader Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump held a landmark meeting in South Korea that could reset the volatile relationship between the world’s two largest economies and rival superpowers.Both leaders offered warm remarks at the start of the talks – their first face-to-face in six years – at an airbase in the coastal city of Busan, near to where an international summit is taking place.Trump praised Xi as the “great leader of a great country” and said he thought the two “were going to have a fantastic relationship for a long period of time,” while the Chinese leader said it was a “great pleasure” to see Trump after many years.“We do not always see eye to eye with each other, and it is normal for the two leading economies of the world to...
October 30, 2025

Trump and Xi meet for first time in six years as world watches where crippling trade war will go next

The meeting comes as both countries are still trying to reach a trade deal
South Korea announces lowering of tariffs as part of new US trade deal
SINGAPORE— The US and South Korea have reached a broad trade deal, both countries have said following talks between their leaders.South Korea's presidential aide, Kim Yong-beom, said the two sides will reduce reciprocal tariffs from 25% to 15%, as was agreed earlier this year.South Korea will also invest $350bn in the US, including $200bn in cash investment and $150bn in shipbuilding, Kim said.US President Donald Trump, who is currently on a week-long trip in Asia, said the deal was "pretty much finalised" at a dinner following the discussions, which lasted almost two hours. He did not give further details."We had a tremendous meeting today with South Korea", Trump said of his discussions with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, adding that "a lot was determined"."We discussed...
October 29, 2025

South Korea announces lowering of tariffs as part of new US trade deal

Most of the deaths from the storm have happened on the entral island of Cebu
More than 85 dead as typhoon wreaks havoc in the Philippines
MANILA — At least 85 people have been killed while hundreds of thousands fled their homes as one of strongest typhoons this year ripped through the central Philippines, authorities say.Typhoon Kalmaegi has flooded entire towns on the most populated central island of Cebu, where at least 49 of the fatalities were located. There are 75 others missing and 17 injured, officials said on Wednesday.Videos show people sheltering on rooftops, while cars and shipping containers have been swept through the streets.The official death toll, which is likely to rise, includes six crew members of a military helicopter that crashed on Mindanao island, south of Cebu, after it was deployed to assist in relief efforts.The aircraft went down on Tuesday near Agusan del Sur and was one of four sent to...
October 29, 2025

More than 85 dead as typhoon wreaks havoc in the Philippines

President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung walk in a welcome ceremony at the Gyeongju National Museum in Gyeongju, South Korea, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025
Trump given golden crown in South Korea ahead of trade discussions
SEOUL — South Korea’s President Lee Jae-myung has presented Donald Trump with a golden crown and medal on the final leg of his Asian tour, as the US president seeks to iron out a trade deal with Seoul that appears more elusive.After a warm meeting with Trump at the White House in August, Lee showered Trump with gifts on Wednesday in the southeastern city of Gyeongju, presenting him with a medal representing the Grand Order of Mugunghwa.Trump was the first US president to receive South Korea’s highest honour, according to Seoul.“It’s as beautiful as it can possibly be”, Trump said, adding that he wanted “to wear it right now”.The US president also received a replica of a royal crown from the Silla Kingdom, which existed from 57 B.C. to 935 A.D. The original crown was found...
October 29, 2025

Trump given golden crown in South Korea ahead of trade discussions

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