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1. UK Conservative lawmaker Robert Jenrick defects to Farage’s Reform UK

   Former ‍Conservative Party leadership candidate Robert Jenrick defected to Nigel Farage’s right-wing Reform UK on Thursday, hours after he was sacked from the Conservatives when his plans to switch ⁠allegiance were leaked. Jenrick joins at least a dozen prominent Conservatives who have joined Reform which, before an election expected in 2029, is ahead of both Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour...

2. US charges 20 people with rigging university, Chinese basketball games, NBC reports

   US authorities have charged 20 people ‌with rigging college basketball and Chinese Basketball Association ‍games, according to a federal indictment released on Thursday, including some individuals previously charged in an NBA-related gambling investigation. The charges were unsealed ⁠by federal prosecutors in Philadelphia following a grand jury and accuse the defendants of conspiring on games...

3. Trump administration wins appeal to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a freed pro-Palestinian activist

   A federal appeal panel on Thursday reversed a lower court decision that released Mahmoud Khalil from an immigration jail, bringing the government one step closer to detaining and ultimately deporting the Palestinian activist. A three-judge panel of the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeal in Philadelphia instructed the lower court to dismiss Khalil’s habeas petition, a court filing that secured his...

4. More room for the Flower Market to bloom

   [The content of this article has been produced by our advertising partner.] Well before dawn, vans begin to pull up along Flower Market Road. Buckets of lilies and roses are lifted onto the street, hands moving quickly before the heat sets in. Later in the day buyers drift between shops, some with lists, others guided by scent and colour. These daily rituals have shaped the Flower Market’s...

5. ‘Hong Kong lawyers should not aim just to compete but specialise in Greater Bay Area’

   Hong Kong lawyers should not think of competing head-on with mainland counterparts in the Greater Bay Area, but instead position themselves as common law specialists and collaborators in cross-border legal teams, Hong Kong Bar Association chairman Jose-Antonio Maurellet has said. His comments came during a fireside chat on the sidelines of the China Conference: Greater Bay Area event hosted by...

6. Trump threatens to use Insurrection Act to end protests in Minneapolis

   US President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and deploy troops to quell persistent protests against the federal officers sent to Minneapolis to enforce his administration’s massive immigration crackdown. The president’s threat comes a day after a federal immigration officer shot and wounded a Minneapolis man who had attacked the officer with a shovel and broom...

7. Bid-rigging and loopholes: pledges fall short of fixing Hong Kong’s building sector

   New measures to strengthen Hong Kong’s building maintenance regime after the deadly Tai Po fire only scratch the surface of long-standing issues that require deeper systemic reforms and tougher laws, according to experts and industry figures. The damning verdict came after the government’s pledges and proposals on Wednesday to close policy gaps and tackle entrenched problems laid bare by the...

8. European allies send troops to Greenland amid Trump’s purchase pressure

   European countries were sending small numbers of military personnel to Greenland on Thursday as Denmark and its allies ‌prepared for exercises to try to assure US President Donald Trump of its security as he pushes to acquire the island. A meeting of officials from the United States, Denmark ‍and Greenland on Wednesday avoided the type of public humiliation meted out to Ukrainian President...

9. The US has sent a ‘dangerous’ message in Venezuela and China must act, legal expert warns

   China needs to legislate to protect itself against the risk of “external suppression” and safeguard its technology and supply chains, a legal expert with a top Beijing think tank has warned. Li Honglei, head of a Communist Party committee that oversees two law institutes under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said tighter national security legislation was needed to make the country more...

10. US seizes another Venezuela-linked tanker ahead of Trump-Machado meeting

    The United States has seized another Venezuela-linked tanker, US officials told Reuters on Thursday, ahead of a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. The seizure marks the sixth vessel targeted since mid-December that was either carrying Venezuelan oil or had ⁠done so in the past. The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity,...