Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says at least 155 Chinese citizens are fighting for Russia in the war. His comments come after two Chinese fighters were captured earlier this week – marking Kyiv’s first official allegation that China was supplying Russia with manpower. Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, Zelensky reiterated his claim that there are “many…
France’s far-right National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen called a court ruling that bans her from running for office for five years a “political decision” at a rally in Paris on Sunday. “I won’t give up,” she told thousands of flag-waving supporters in Place Vauban, close to the Eiffel Tower. She was on Monday…
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency on Tuesday reversed a change that had made some of its claims far more difficult to fact-check. In early March, the group — which had been caught in a series of high-profile errors — began posting itemized claims about the savings it had achieved from canceling federal grants. Its…
A BYD Plus DM-i electric vehicle is seen on display at a showroom in the Jing’an district of Shanghai on March 11, 2025. Hector Retamal | Afp | Getty Images Shares of China’s BYD rallied on Tuesday after the company announced a new technology that it claims can charge electric vehicles (EV) almost as quickly…
Initial filings for unemployment benefits hit their highest level of the year last week in another potential signs of weakness in the labor market. Jobless claims for the week ended Feb. 22 totaled a seasonally adjusted 242,000, up 22,000 from the previous week’s revised level and higher than the Dow Jones estimate for 225,000, according…
A South African court has dismissed claims of a white genocide in the country as “clearly imagined” and “not real” at a time when such reports are being pushed by US President Donald Trump and his adviser Elon Musk. The ruling came as the court blocked a wealthy benefactor’s donation to white supremacist group Boerelegioen….
Mali’s military government says it is investigating allegations that soldiers “coldly executed” at least 24 civilians in the north of the country on Monday. That claim was made by a separatist Tuareg rebel alliance, called Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), which is battling the Malian government in the same region. The FLA accuse Malian forces and…
Microsoft on Wednesday announced Majorana 1, its first quantum computing chip. The achievement comes after the company spent nearly two decades of research in the field, but Microsoft claims that building Majorana 1 required that it create an entirely new state of matter, which it is referring to as a topological state. Microsoft’s quantum chip…
Reuters Panama has denied making changes to allow US government vessels to transit the Panama Canal for free, following White House claims it had agreed to such a move. The State Department said in a statement on X that its government vessels “can now transit the Panama Canal without charge fees, saving the US government…
Authoritarian Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has secured another victory in an election labelled by Western governments as a sham. The Central Election Committee stated on Monday that Lukashenko won 86.8% of the vote and that turnout was almost 87%. There were four other names on the ballot – carefully chosen to present no challenge to…
