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Sebastien Blanc

A respected and robust United States — with all of our flaws, mistakes and missteps — can be good for the defence of democracy, not least in Africa.

Trump claims victory on travel ban, but border crackdown on hold

The court ruling handed a major victory to Trump in a tortuous legal battle over the Republican leader’s efforts to restrict immigration

US President Donald Trump’s land-for-peace formula feeds into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s revanchism. Photo: Dominick Reuter/Reuters

US Supreme Court upholds Trump travel ban

The justices ruled 5-4 that the most recent version of the ban, which the administration claims is justified by national security concerns, was valid

A developer testing a game for children in an office in Chengdu

Chinese Chengdu aspires to become next Silicon Valley

Entrepreneurs in China’s south-west are dreaming of turning the city of Chengdu into the world’s next Silicon Valley.

Members of the Presidium raise the hands during the closing ceremony of the Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Stage set for Chinese political theatre

China’s new leaders will soon reveal themselves in a piece of political theatre critics say is out of step with a fast-modernising society.

China’s newcomer wine takes gold in blind tasting

China’s newcomer wine takes gold in blind tasting

A remote region of China that began producing fine wine only a decade ago has beaten the French wine-producing region of Bordeaux in a blind tasting.

45 saved in major Chinese mine rescue

Forty-five miners trapped underground after a rock blast in a Chinese coal mine were brought to the surface on Saturday in a rare successful rescue,.

From sports cars to slums: China’s huge wealth gap

Li Fu is 29, owns five cars and has a diamond-encrusted cell phone. Wang Qingzhan is 44, works as a cleaner and lives with his family in a tiny room.

East Timor votes to heal ‘broken’ nation

Voters in East Timor cast their ballots on Monday in a presidential election they hope will pull them from a cycle of violence and political tension that has paralysed efforts to…

At least 49 dead in Indonesia plane disaster

A Boeing 737-400 passenger jet burst into flames when it landed at Yogyakarta in central Indonesia on Wednesday, killing at least 49 people and leaving dozens more burnt and…

Dutch railway in Indonesia may rise again after tsunami

A colonial-era railway that was once the lifeblood of Indonesia’s Aceh could paradoxically be revived in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami, which obliterated the coastline of…

Plan in place to save the world’s rarest mammal

The Javan rhinoceros is the rarest mammal in the world; just 50 of the one-horned beasts remain alive, almost all in a single Indonesian jungle. Now, to save them, scientists are…

Quake deaths could top 50 000

The death toll from the earthquake in southeast Iran could top 50 000, a local government official said on Tuesday, making it one of the most devastating natural disasters of…