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Tunisian tennis star Ons Jabeur retired hurt during the Sydney Classic semi-finals on Thursday, days before the Australian Open. Jabeur was playing the in-form world number seven Anett Kontaveit, who won a tight first set 6-4 before the Tunisian called…

The new party chief in China’s Xinjiang province called for improved business conditions in his first official visit to the region, where forced labour accusations have prompted some countries to announce a diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Beijing Wi…

President Joe Biden signed a bill into law on Thursday to block imports from China’s Xinjiang region unless businesses can prove the items were made without forced labour, the latest in a series of intensifying US penalties against the Asian giant for …

Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, has been ordered by an English court to pay his former wife, Jordanian Princess Haya bint Al-Hussein a mind-boggling £554 million (US$733 million) in expenses to raise their two children. This is be…

Intel Corp. apologised Thursday for asking suppliers to avoid sourcing goods from Xinjiang after the world’s biggest chipmaker joined other foreign brands in facing the fury of state media over complaints of abuses by the ruling Communist Party in the …

Singapore suspended quarantine-free travel bookings and Australia renewed its vaccination push on Wednesday as surging Omicron infections just days before Christmas forced authorities to impose new curbs and expedite booster shots. Governments globally…

China blacklisted four members of a US federal commission on religious freedom on Tuesday in the latest tit-for-tat response to Washington’s own sanctions targeting alleged perpetrators of genocide in Xinjiang. The move came as Beijing also hit out at …

The Syrian Olympic Committee announced on Monday that it was suspending retired footballer Firas Al-Khatib from the body after he played in a match where the opposing team was coached by an Israeli. On the eve of Saturday’s FIFA Arab Cup 2021 final, Kh…

Rafael Nadal tested positive for the coronavirus after playing in an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi, the Spaniard said Monday. Nadal wrote on Twitter that the positive result came from a PCR test he took after arriving in Spain. Nadal said he is en…

The Biden administration said Thursday it is imposing new sanctions on several Chinese biotech and surveillance companies for actions in Xinjiang province, the latest step against Beijing over human rights abuses of Uyghur Muslims in the country’s west…