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The rescue was described as almost miraculous. A family of four whose car had careened off a treacherous cliff-top road in Northern California, plummeted more than 250 feet and trapped them on Monday managed to survive and avoid…

U.S. President Joe Biden will meet Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Washington on Jan. 13 to further deepen ties between the two countries, the White House announced Tuesday, saying that they will discuss issues ranging from North…

The soldiers of the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division train, eat and sleep on a drab, sprawling post in south-east Romania, a mere seven-minute rocket flight from where Russia has stockpiled munitions in Crimea. Farther north, in…

South Korea and the United States are discussing joint planning and implementation of US nuclear operations to counter North Korea and hope to conduct a tabletop exercise soon, officials from both sides said on Tuesday. The plan came…

Elon Musk was the second person ever to amass a personal fortune of more than US$200 billion, breaching that threshold in January 2021, months after Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos. The Tesla chief executive has now achieved a first of his own:…

The United States military and its allies in Iraq and Syria killed almost 700 operatives of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), including several of the organization’s leaders, in 2022. “The emerging, reliable and steady ability…

President Joe Biden signed a US$1.7 trillion spending bill into law on Thursday, averting a shutdown and keeping the government funded through September while adding to his legacy of expanding federal programmes as president. Biden had…

The U.S. military said Thursday that its patrol aircraft had a close call with a Chinese fighter jet in international airspace over the South China Sea last week. According to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, a J-11 fighter of the Chinese…

The Biden administration criticized Beijing’s military drills near Taiwan this week as “provocative”, insisting that it will continue helping the government in Taipei defend itself. The United States is worried about the Chinese…

China said it will strive to “recalibrate” its relationship with the US and increase communication with Europe as the country outlines its major diplomatic tasks for next year. “We will follow through on the common understandings reached…