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1. Afghan national charged with first-degree murder in National Guard shooting

   Jeanine Pirro, the US lawyer for the District of Columbia, said the suspected gunman in the shooting of two National Guard members will be charged with first-degree murder following the death of a guardsman. “There are certainly many more charges to come, but we are upgrading the initial charges of assault to murder in the first degree,” Pirro said in an interview on Friday morning on Fox...

2. ‘What will happen to us’: fire-displaced Hong Kong residents facing uncertainty

   Distress and uncertainty lingered among displaced residents after Wednesday’s deadly fire in Hong Kong, as they struggled to move into tiny temporary flats while calling for better long-term resettlement arrangements such as public housing. Some elderly residents who had lived for decades in Tai Po’s fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court said on Friday they hoped the damaged estate would be rebuilt so...

3. Tensions flare as Wingtech slams chipmaker Nexperia’s head office over deception

   A fierce war of words has erupted between Dutch chipmaker Nexperia and its Chinese owner, Wingtech Technology, after China and the European Union signalled that their dispute should be resolved at the corporate level. Wingtech accused Nexperia’s head office of being insincere after the Dutch head office publicly released a letter that said the chipmaker’s Chinese unit had been unresponsive to...

4. ‘Hongkongers’ solidarity’: volunteers pick up pieces for Tai Po fire victims

   Against the backdrop of the seven charred residential blocks, an open plaza next to Wang Fuk Court has transformed into a bustling relief centre, manned by hundreds of volunteers aiding thousands of displaced residents on the third day since Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades. As large quantities of donated supplies continuously flowed into the area, volunteers – mostly mobilised through...

5. Anxious wait for relatives of people still missing in deadly Hong Kong fire

   Families of residents still missing after a blaze engulfed an estate complex in Hong Kong on Wednesday face an agonising wait for news of their loved ones as the government needs more time to identify many of the bodies. Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung said on Friday that among the 89 unidentified bodies so far recovered from the charred buildings of Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, about...

6. ‘Helplessness more suffocating than the smoke’: Hong Kong fire survivor’s ordeal

   William Li, 40, is one of the survivors in Hong Kong’s Tai Po fire tragedy. The deadliest inferno in decades set seven blocks in the Wang Fuk Court residential complex ablaze, claiming at least 128 lives as of Friday. Li was rescued from Wang Cheong House – the block that first caught fire – on Wednesday evening. Here is a translation of his personal account, which was first put up on his...

7. Failure of fire alarms could have delayed rescue, cost lives, expert says

   The failure of fire alarms in the deadly Tai Po blaze could have delayed the response and evacuation of residents, according to a leading Hong Kong fire safety specialist. Anthony Lam Chun-man, a former director of the city’s Fire Services Department (FSD), also said the extreme heat and intense flames both inside and outside made it almost impossible for firefighters to enter to fight the blaze...

8. Alibaba Cloud team wins top AI award for breakthrough in model efficiency

   A research team led by Alibaba Cloud was the only group from China to receive a top award at this year’s NeurIPS, or the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, billed as the artificial intelligence industry’s most prestigious annual event. The research could lead to drastic improvements in the efficiency of large language models (LLMs), significantly reducing both training and...

9. Tripwire clauses: why is China alarmed by Malaysia’s new trade deal with the US?

   China has expressed “serious concerns” regarding a trade agreement signed last month between Malaysia and the United States, and some analysts suggest it might be related to how the pact could force the Southeast Asian nation to align with Washington’s sanctions regime. The official reaction on Thursday followed a meeting between Chinese and Malaysian commerce officials earlier in the week....

10. Zelensky’s chief of staff raided amid Kyiv’s growing corruption scandal

    Ukraine’s anti-corruption authorities on Friday raided the home of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s powerful chief of staff and top negotiator, Andriy Yermak, searches that come as a massive corruption scandal embroils Kyiv. Investigators earlier this month said they had uncovered a US$100 million kickback scheme in the strategic energy sector, triggering widespread public anger at a time when...