Warren Buffett donated $6 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock to five foundations on June 30, 2025.

Speculation that US President Donald Trump may visit Beijing in September has sparked “cautious optimism” among some Chinese analysts about a possible diplomatic breakthrough as trade ties between the rival powers teeter on the edge of a fragile truce. A Kyodo report on Sunday citing unnamed sources said that China was planning to invite Trump

Olivia Munn is back at it. The actress — who made headlines in April for blasting Lauren Sánchez’s Blue Origin space flight — appeared to shade the bride and husband Jeff Bezos over their $50 million wedding. One day after Friday’s star-studded nuptials in Venice, Italy, Munn reacted to Mia Farrow’s Instagram post praising the

Chinese President Xi Jinping held separate bilateral meetings with the leaders of Ecuador and Senegal on Friday in what appears to be a concerted effort by Beijing to maintain strong ties with Global South countries, even as major power diplomacy increasingly dominates Beijing’s foreign policy agenda. These are the kind of high-level engagements with African

Last week, China’s ‘Supreme Leader’ Xi Jinping purged high ranking military personnel. A look at the long list of purges unleashed by Xi leads to the question if it’s a form insurance against being toppled from within. Is China’s contemporary ‘emperor’ a lonely and insecure man?

Last Updated:June 30, 2025, 15:05 IST As Xi’s ideological control weakens, intelligence sources highlight that Wang Yang is being groomed as a reform-oriented future leader and technocrat. China President Xi Jinping | Image/Reuters Chinese President Xi Jinping’s unusual disappearance from public view between May 21 and June 5 this year has sparked intense speculation about

Membership in China’s ruling Communist Party passed the 100 million mark, but the pace of growth slowed for the third straight year amid Beijing’s long-running push to rein in the party’s expansion. The total number of party cadres reached 100.27 million at the end of 2024, an increase of 1.1% from a year earlier, according