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Sep 28, 2026
Donald Trump asked President Xi Jinping whether Beijing wanted to buy American weapons, the US ambassador to China said on Sunday, prompting the State Department to quickly rule out any such deal with Washington’s principal strategic competitor. “He actually asked President Xi, would he like to buy some at one point,” the ambassador David Perdue said on Fox News after Xi’s state visit to the White House last week. He did not say when Trump raised the question, what prompted it, or how the...
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China has produced an electron beam using a cutting-edge electron gun, taking a step towards building a “super microscope” that could help drive breakthroughs in everything from Alzheimer’s research to advanced microchips. The Hefei Advanced Light Facility (HALF) in central China’s Anhui province fired its first electron beam on September 20. Bunches of electrons generated by the gun were accelerated by a 192-metre (630-foot) linear accelerator until they reached 2.2 billion electron volts,...
The Medicare breach, condemned by Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, is one of the highest-profile incidents of AI agents accessing external systems outside the US
The House prosecution panel on Monday withdrew its request for admission seeking Vice President Sara Duterte"s acknowledgment that she owned the bank accounts whose records were ordered submitted by the banks to the Senate impeachment court.
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. just laughed on Monday when asked about claims by Vice President Sara Duterte that the administration is trying to stop the 2028 election
Police in the northern province of Hung Yen have uncovered an online gambling ring operating through the Net.win website, with transactions worth more than VND1 trillion (US$38.61 million) processed through bank accounts linked to the system, authorities have said.
The trial is increasingly revealing itself as more, much more, political than legal business. All too obviously, just about any intervention, any utterance, any vote cast by a senator-judge is politically loaded.
Eldrew Yulo credits his brother, Carlos Yulo, for helping him build his mental toughness. On Monday"s episode of “Unang Hirit,” Eldrew said that aside from sharing their passion for gymnastics, Carlos has helped him focus mentally and silence his doubts.
China marks 2,577th anniversary of Confucius’s birth
The fare increases were originally set in March but were suspended by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. amid the conflict in the Middle East, which drove up global oil prices