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HONG KONG: Hong Kong’s Education Bureau said that it had called on universities in the Chinese territory to attract top talent following a ban on Harvard University enrolling foreign students. United States President Donald Trump’s administration revoked Harvard University’s ability to enrol international students and is forcing current foreign students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status. The ban, effective for the 2025 to 2026 school year, comes as the administration said Harvard fostered antisemitism and coordinated with the Chinese Communist Party. Chinese nationals make up about a fifth of Harvard’s foreign student intake in 2024. “The…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson has died at the age of 79, his family announced on Sunday.The TV personality’s daughter-in-law Korie Robertson announced the news on Instagram. Robertson had previously battled Alzheimer’s disease.”We celebrate today that our father, husband, and grandfather, Phil Robertson, is now with the Lord,” the post read. “He reminded us often of the words of Paul, ‘you do not grieve like those who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen…

Children are bearing the brunt of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

General Medicine founders TJ Parker, Ashwin Muralidharan and Elliot Cohen.General MedicineAfter selling online pharmacy PillPack to Amazon seven years ago, the founding team is launching a new company that aims to make the experience of getting medical care “as easy as shopping online.”PillPack founders TJ Parker and Elliot Cohen on Thursday launched a new venture called General Medicine. Parker and Cohen are joined by Ashwin Muralidharan, who most recently served as the technical adviser, or “shadow,” to Amazon’s top health executive Neil Lindsay.General Medicine is an online health-care marketplace, where users can get connected with a provider based on specific medical…

Around 8% of the 31.1 million reviews submitted to Tripadvisor in 2024 were fake, according to the company’s “Transparency Report 2025.”That’s more than twice the number detected in 2022, according to company reports.But that doesn’t mean the number of fake reviews on the site doubled, said Becky Foley, vice president and head of trust and safety at Tripadvisor.  While submissions to the website increased, Tripadvisor’s policies on fake reviews also changed, she said, citing the company’s more aggressive stance against “incentivized reviews.” These occur when companies offer customers discounts or freebies in exchange for reviews, or provide incentives to employees…

President Donald Trump told journalists that he was “not happy” with Russia’s recent large-scale strike against Ukraine while speaking to the press on Sunday.Speaking to reporters at Morristown Municipal Airport in New Jersey, Trump accused Putin of “killing a lot of people” in the attack, which was launched on Sunday afternoon.”I’m not happy with what Putin is doing,” Trump explained. “He’s killing a lot of people, and I don’t know what the hell happened to Putin.” “I’ve known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it…

Seven members of a “South American Theft Group (SATG)” were arrested Friday for their involvement in two Phoenix-area burglaries, authorities said Saturday. Both heists – one in Tempe and another in Mesa – were committed on May 23, the Scottsdale Police Department said. All seven suspects were arrested on Friday at a short-term rental where they were staying, police said. Scottsdale Police were alerted to the group on May 20 by the Burbank Police Department in California. They were warned about a SATG group from Colombia that had allegedly committed burglaries in California, Oregon and Washington, and were possibly headed to Arizona.EXCLUSIVE VIDEO:…

Fremantle young guy Cooper Simpson will have surgery on his injured AC joint and miss the next 10 weeks in a savage blow to his burgeoning career.Simpson bravely put his body on the line during Saturday night’s win over Port Adelaide, crashing into Logan Evans during a contest for a ground ball and coming off second best.The Docker was subbed out of the game in extreme pain and scans have shown he suffered a high grade AC joint injury that included a displaced clavicle.“This is a relatively rare injury and the best intervention is to head in for surgery,” Dockers…

SYDNEY: China’s ambassador to Canberra has criticised the Australian government’s intention to return Darwin Port to local ownership, saying the Chinese company running the strategically located northern port should not be punished. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in April during the election campaign that his government was working on a plan to force the sale of Darwin Port from its Chinese owner on national interest grounds. Australia sold the commercial port on a 99-year lease to Chinese company Landbridge in 2015, a move that was criticised by the US president at the time, Barack Obama. Around 2,000 US Marines exercise for…

President Erdogan holds talks with Prime Minister Sharif aimed at ‘increasing solidarity in education, intelligence sharing and technological support’.Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Istanbul, weeks after a military conflict between Islamabad and New Delhi. The two countries would strive to boost cooperation, particularly in defence, energy and transportation, Erdogan’s office said on Sunday. Erdogan told Sharif it was in the interest of Turkey and Pakistan to increase solidarity in education, intelligence sharing and technological support in the fight against “terrorism”, Turkiye president’s office said. The meeting in the Turkish commercial…