WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ‘overjoyed’ to be back in Australia, wife says
The 52-year-old landed in Canberra the night before, hours after pleading guilty in a US Pacific island court to a single count of revealing military secrets.
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Thursday Briefing: Evan Gershkovich’s Trial
Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter and a U.S. citizen, has already endured 15 months in a notorious Moscow prison. Yesterday, his trial finally began.
YouTube dominates streaming, forcing media companies to decide whether it's friend or foe
It's been almost 20 years since the founding of Alphabet's YouTube, and Hollywood still doesn't really know what to do with it.
The rules-based order isn’t working. It’s time for an alternative
Yet double standards have persisted. This shows that the rules-based order is not just imperfect but fundamentally flawed. Countries such as China have called for “an international order based on international law”, based on the view that the Western framing of the rules-based order goes against the spirit of the rule of law by embodying unilateralism and power politics rather than multilateralism and democratic justice.
Saipan, placid island setting for Assange’s last battle, is briefly mobbed — and bemused by the fuss
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AP) — It was a peculiar setting to the final act in a legal drama that has now spanned the globe: a rural Western Pacific island, where visitors are usually tourists — attracted by laid-back resorts, snorkeling, diving and golf — and the furthermost reach of the United States.
European stocks hit session lows, extending negative sentiment; tech firms climb
LONDON — European stocks fell on Wednesday, extending negative sentiment seen in the previous trading session.
Tourism surges to Japan's No. 2 'export,' behind cars
TOKYO -- Spending by foreign visitors in Japan has quintupled over the past decade to become Japan's second-largest export category, underscoring a shift from goods to services.
Trade feuds aside, Chinese firms are committed to the U.S. market, survey shows
A recent survey of Chinese enterprises in the U.S. has found that a majority remain bullish on the market long term despite growing concerns about U.S.-China relations and the broader business environment.