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Hamas announced Tuesday it had signed an agreement in Beijing with other Palestinian organisations including rivals Fatah to work together for "national unity", with China describing it as a deal to rule Gaza together once the war ends.

India’s middle class is much poorer than China’s after decades of strong growth despite starting at a similar base.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Southeast Asia this week to deepen ties with his country's strategic allies, an official said Monday, with the United States seeking to bolster its regional stance against an increasingly assertive China.

Nvidia is reportedly preparing a China-focused variant of its Blackwell B200 AI GPU, dubbed the B20. This will inevitably require some serious alterations and modifications to comply with U.S. export restrictions, which effectively cap performance at around 600 TFLOPS FP8 — the standard B200 is about 7.5 times that fast.

US President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the presidential race gives him nearly six months left in office with an array of foreign policy challenges on the table. How will Biden continue to shape Washington’s stance towards Ukraine, China and the Israel-Hamas war? FRANCE 24 speaks with Dr…

China and the Philippines reach an agreement to ease tensions at Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea, aiming for peaceful resolution amidst territor...

Taiwan conducts annual war games to simulate repelling Chinese attacks, amidst tensions over sovereignty claims.

October NY world sugar #11 (SBV24 ) today is down -0.40 (-2.14%), and Oct London ICE white sugar #5 (SWV24 ) is down -11.10 (-2.05%). Sugar prices are lower today due to doubts about the global economic outlook after China was forced to cut interest rates and Japan's Cabinet Office...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's presence at the G20 summit in Brazil aims to address subjects on green energy incentives, efforts to tackle debt distress, support for Ukraine and the capacity of China's manufacturing sector.