Dominic Sirico 
Tesla is set to report earnings Wednesday for the first time since President Donald Trump — a close ally of CEO Elon Musk — returned to the White House. The fourth-quarter results conclude a mixed year for Tesla. While the company’s profits were pressured by vehicle price cuts introduced amid intensifying electric vehicle (EV) competition, … Read more
With around six million dollars and a stockpile of chips acquired before Washington banned their export to China, startup DeepSeek has produced what Chinese tech titans couldn’t — a world-class AI chatbot. The success will come with heightened scrutiny, both from Western governments with long-held suspicions about Chinese technology but also from Beijing, whose stern … Read more
From incense offerings and vibrant lion dances in Beijing to prayer rituals at temples in Bangkok and Taipei, hundreds of millions of people across Asia celebrated the Lunar New Year on Wednesday, ushering in the Year of the Snake. In China, people enjoy eight consecutive public holidays for the 2025 Spring Festival, an opportunity to … Read more
Promising a “simplification shock”, the EU will unveil a much-anticipated blueprint to revamp Europe’s economic model on Wednesday, as the bloc struggles to keep up with China and the United States. Coming early in EU chief Ursula von der Leyen’s second term, the publication of the “competitiveness compass” aims to mark a change of tack … Read more
The president of crisis-hit Democratic Republic of Congo was set to meet his Rwandan counterpart at an emergency summit on Wednesday, as fighters backed by Kigali appeared on the brink of seizing the key city of Goma. The M23 armed group took control of Goma’s airport on Tuesday, a security source said, following days of … Read more
Svitlana Rudokvas once took solace in the fact that fighting between the Ukrainian army and Russian forces was raging at a safe distance in the eastern Donetsk region neighbouring her own. But now, the Kremlin’s emboldened army has advanced and brought the fight right to the doorstep of her Dnipropetrovsk region, while raining down bombs … Read more
Students in Serbia vowed to continue protesting even after the country’s Prime Minister Milos Vucevic announced his resignation on Tuesday, following weeks of mass demonstrations over the fatal collapse of a train station roof in November. The Balkan country has been rocked by regular protests in the wake of the deadly disaster at the train … Read more
Israel, backed by Washington, will cease contact with the UN’s Palestinian humanitarian relief agency UNRWA and any other body acting on its behalf, its UN envoy said Tuesday, drawing condemnation from aid groups. Signaling a shift in the US position on the agency by the administration of President Donald Trump, a US envoy voiced support … Read more
An idea floated by US President Donald Trump to move Gazans to Egypt or Jordan faced a renewed backlash Tuesday as hundreds of thousands of Gazans displaced by the Israel-Hamas war returned to their devastated neighbourhoods. A fragile ceasefire and hostage release deal took effect earlier this month, intended to end more than 15 months … Read more
During the 2024 election campaign Donald Trump repeatedly promised to build a version of Israel’s Iron Dome system for the United States AFP President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to start planning for an “Iron Dome” air defense system for the United States, like the one that Israel has used to intercept … Read more
