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Suga wins party vote, all but assuring election as Japan PM

Yoshihide Suga was elected as the new head of Japan’s ruling party on Monday, all but assuring that he will become the country’s new prime minister when a parliamentary

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Wildfires torch homes in Oregon, forcing half a million to evacuate

Around half a million people in Oregon were under evacuation alerts on Friday, with residents of its largest city told to be ready to leave, as wildfires that have taken 24 lives since erupting in Au

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Wing’s Margaret Nagle will join us at TC Sessions: Mobility 2020 to discuss the future of urban air transportation

Alphabet’s Wing is among the companies leading the way for building a sustainable and scalable way for drones and other aircraft to share the skies and build a capable and safe aerial transporta

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Would-be Merkel successor Laschet faces early election test

German conservative Armin Laschet faces an early test in his quest to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel with local elections on Sunday in his western state of North Rhin

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Norwegian lawmaker nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

A Norwegian lawmaker has nominated Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 for helping broker a deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, the second tim

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Israel's Netanyahu demands probe of investigators in his corruption trial

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Wednesday for an inquiry into the investigators who brought corruption charges against him, in a move that critics s

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The revenge of the special relationship

Editor's note: Ian Buruma is the author, most recently, of A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessarily views of CGTN.Seventy-five years ago, the pres

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Trump wavers between politics and trade

Editor's note:Freddie Reidy is a freelance writer based in London. He studied history and history of art at the University of Kent, Canterbury, specializing in Russian history and international po

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Joe Biden proves to be a unifier in Kenosha trip

Editor's note: Bradley Blankenship is a Prague-based American journalist, political analyst and freelance reporter. The article reflects the author's opinions, not necessarily the views of CGTN.In

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Melania Trump used private email to conduct official White House business, former senior adviser says

First lady Melania Trump used private email accounts rather than her White House email to discuss official White House business, according to her former senior adviser

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XRobotics is keeping the dream of pizza robots alive

Zume pulled the plug on its robotic pizza wing earlier this year. A lot goes into making a decision like that — particularly for a company whose robotic dreams were a press darling for a while there.

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Brazil's Bolsonaro extends COVID-19 welfare payments key to popularity

Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday extended until the end of the year emergency payments to help low-income Brazilians weather the economic fallout from the p

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Indian's minister accuses Facebook of bias amid row over content

India's information technology minister accused Facebook on Tuesday of censoring content from people supportive of right wing ideology in the latest salvo at the social media giant over content r

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Trump presses law and order message as protest turns deadly

Supporters of President Donald Trump and protesters hold banners as they wait for the motorcade of President Trump outside the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, U.S., August 30, 2020. /AP

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Trump supporters, protesters clash in Portland; 1 killed

One person was shot and killed late Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as a large caravan of President Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in t

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The Met reopens as New York City comes back to life

A statue in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art during a preview in advance of its reopening, New York City, U.S., August 27, 2020. /CFP The Metropolitan Museum of Art, usually

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Reliable Robotics is bringing remote piloting to small cargo planes

Nearly one year ago, a Cessna 172 Skyhawk stealthily made aviation history when it landed at a small airport in Northern California marking the completion of the first successful remote-piloted flight