A man who was convicted of stabbing 22 children at a primary school in China has been sentenced to death.
China’s announcement that it has created an Air Defense Identification Zone in the East China Sea — including airspace over a small group of islands claimed by both China and Japan — has prompted serious concerns and sharply worded protests from Washington and Tokyo.
China has announced a number of wide-ranging social and economic reforms as it looks to sustain its rapid economic growth.
As Russia and the United States, and their respective allies, lock horns at the G20 and in the UN Security Council and perhaps eventually find a face-saving way out of their self-inflicted paralysis, the dynamic of the Syrian civil war has long taken a direction that will see neither of them as a winner.
The UK is to propose a UN Security Council resolution today which would authorise “necessary measures to protect civilians” in Syria.