German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock is due to meet her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Monday against the backdrop of numerous international conflicts. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Friday that Baerbock wants to discuss the Russian war against Ukraine and the human rights situation in China, among other things. Beijing is con

Israel’s army has banned residents of several villages in southern Lebanon from returning home until further notice. An Israeli military spokesman announced on X in Arabic that the military didn’t want the villagers to be put in danger of being targetted. He listed more than 60 villages near the Israeli border that are part of […

Poland has deployed Leopard 2 battle tanks in Latvia to reinforce the NATO brigade in the Baltic EU and NATO country. The armoured vehicles were moved by train to the Adazi military base after their arrival, the Latvian army said on Friday. They are to replace the PT-91 battle tanks that have been stationed there […]

India is changing its EV policy to attract foreign car makers, including Toyota (TM, Financial) and Hyundai (HYMTF, Financial) , after Tesla (TSLA, Financial) decided not to assemble cars in India. New rules, to be implemented by March, extend taxation incentives for EV manufacturing at existing factories and for the production of vehicles built on

Polling stations have opened across Ireland this morning after a three-week election campaign. Fine Gael’s Simon Harris, Fianna Fail’s Micheal Martin and Sinn Fein’s Mary Lou McDonald are all battling it out to become Ireland’s next taoiseach – though no party has put forward enough candidates for a majority, meaning a