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Ghislaine Maxwell in 2015. The former British socialite is serving a 20-year prison sentence in the US for sex-trafficking. Photo: New York Daily News / TNS
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Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell seeks Trump clemency before testimony

Maxwell, jailed for sex trafficking, invoked her Fifth Amendment right and refused to answer a congressional panel’s questions on Epstein.

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UK’s Starmer refuses to heed calls to quit over fallout from Epstein scandal

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UK police assess claims ex-Prince Andrew sent sensitive trade records to Epstein

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California court begins social media trial amid mental health concerns

The case ‌will determine whether Instagram and YouTube harmed a woman’s mental health through addictive app design, testing Big Tech’s liability.

Parents who lost children to social media-related harms hold a vigil ahead of a social media addiction trial, in Los Angeles, California, US on Thursday. Photo: Reuters

Chinese vacuum maker using Temu’s playbook dreams big with Super Bowl debut

Dreame showcases robot vacuum in a Super Bowl commercial, drawing on Temu’s US prime-time campaign that helped it challenge Amazon.com.

Why China is worried Japan election may prompt change to pacifist constitution

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has already suggested she wants to revise the clause that renounces the use of force to settle disputes.

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China urged to ‘harshly’ punish Panama over court’s canal ruling

Legal analyst says Beijing should ‘consider postponing arrangements’ for Donald Trump’s visit over a ruling against a Hong Kong-based firm.

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A Panamanian court has voided CK Hutchison’s contract to run Panama Canal ports. Photo: AP

Why China’s nuclear arsenal is under fire as US-Russia pact falls apart

US accusations about secret Chinese nuclear tests surface amid arms race anxieties, but Beijing says concerns over its weapons are all hype.

Scams and outflows: why China slammed the door on real-world asset tokens

Beijing’s clampdown aims to help safeguard financial security and monetary sovereignty while leaving room for regulated fintech innovation in Hong Kong.

Pony AI and Toyota roll out robotaxis in China’s autonomous drive push

Guangzhou-based Pony AI begins output of 1,000 autonomous cabs and targets a 3,000-unit fleet by the end of 2026 as it expands globally.

Pony AI is one of three robotaxi firms that have received approval from authorities to operate driverless cabs on designated roads in cities like Beijing and Shanghai. Photo: Handout

China’s AI arms race sees sector brace for major flagship model launch week

A ‘stealth’ model has emerged, while advancements by Alibaba’s Qwen-3.5 and Zhipu’s GLM-5 aim to spur domestic competition following releases by US heavyweights.

China’s AI sector is bracing for a monumental week, with a flurry of anticipated model releases. Photo: Shutterstock

Video | Japan’s PM Takaichi secures historic supermajority

The results set a record for the party since its founding in 1955, surpassing the 300 seats secured in 1986.

Exclusive | Manila ‘will consider’ joining Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’: Philippine envoy to US

Jose Manuel Romualdez says he delivered the invite in person to President Marcos, who is mulling the idea.

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Luckin’s 30,000th store milestone adds buzz to China’s brewing coffee battle

Xiamen-headquartered chain pushes to integrate supply network worldwide and accelerate growth in markets from Asia to the US.

Luckin Coffee’s store network spans more than 300 cities across mainland China. Photo: Handout

China overturns death sentence for Canadian convicted of drug smuggling

Highest court orders new trial in ‘independent’ ruling amid warming China-Canada ties following Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit.

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Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg, pictured during his 2019 retrial on drug trafficking charges in Dalian, Liaoning province, is to stand trial again following the ruling by China’s highest court on Friday. Photo: Handout via AFP

Chinese drone for anti-submarine warfare among systems at Saudi defence show

Demand is growing in the Middle East for autonomous platforms and it is now one of the largest overseas markets for China’s military drones.

Japan’s Takaichi won the election, but at what cost to the LDP?

The ruling party’s embrace of a ‘single patriarchal value system’ could paradoxically weaken its long-term dominance, analysts say.

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‘Structural reality’: why US tariff deal cannot sever India-Russia defence ties

While the pact demands a halt to Russian oil imports, analysts say New Delhi’s military dependence on Moscow is non-negotiable.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (left) speaks with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi in December 2025. Photo: AFP

Vietnam’s legendary maths genius Ngo Bao Chau to join University of Hong Kong

The Fields Medal winner and his country’s most distinguished mathematician is leaving the US and returning to Asia.

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Meet Amber Glenn, first openly LGBT Olympic female figure skater on Team USA

The Texan star athlete just helped the US win gold at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, but has faced ‘scary’ threats online after criticising the Trump administration.

China failed to hit 2025 soybean meal dependence target. US deal makes it harder

Beijing sees soybeans as the agricultural industry’s biggest vulnerability, while plans to cut their use in animal feed have little success.

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Austin Rohlfing harvests soybeans on his family’s field in Missouri. China is putting strategies in place to reduce its reliance on soybean in animal feed as 80 per cent is sourced from overseas, mostly the US and Brazil. Photo: AP

South Korea grounds Cobra helicopters after fatal training crash

South Korea suspends ‌operations ⁠of all AH-1S helicopters after a crash in Gapyeong killed two crew members.

The crash site of the AH-1S Cobra helicopter. Photo: Yonhap via AFP

US transformers are ageing. Why renewable energy could make things worse

Team in China finds that high renewable energy integration could make power transformers age nearly a quarter faster.

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SpaceX puts Mars on back burner to focus on moon ‘city’, Musk says

After years of ambitious Mars predictions, Earth’s richest person admits the moon is more achievable in the shorter term.

How Bad Bunny rocked the Super Bowl halftime show with his fashion choices

The Puerto Rican rapper delivered a Spanish-only set, while Lady Gaga – in a blue dress by Luar – performed the only English lines of the show.

Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny sang only in Spanish for his Super Bowl halftime performance on Sunday. Photo: TNS

China accused of secret nuclear tests, Eileen Gu’s wake up call: 5 weekend reads

From China’s companies keeping Ukraine’s lights on to pushing endurance limits, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.

Eileen Gu was all smiles after eventually qualifying for the final in second place. Photo: AP

M&A market ‘firing on all cylinders’, headed for record year: Citigroup

Confident companies and investors, solid economic growth, low inflation and ample capital drive outlook, bank’s global M&A co-head says.

Why Australia is picking up the tab for Philippine military upgrades

Canberra’s security interests are more closely aligned with Manila than those of Washington, observers say.

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