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US pressure, broken promises by China and corruption scandals have halted Taiwan’s slide to diplomatic irrelevance in the regionAfter weeks of technology failures, accusations of fraud and complaints about US President Donald Trump’s interference, the outcome of Honduras’ 30 November election is yet…
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Lynsey Addario is a Pulitzer Prize winning war photographer who has been abducted twice while documenting conflict from Afghanistan to Sudan. She tells The Mishal Husain Show why her job is to "bear witness." This interview contains descriptions of abduction, violence and sexual assault which some v…
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The yen weakened against the dollar after the Bank of Japan offered no clear guidance on the timing of future monetary tightening, analysts said. While the central bank raised its benchmark interest rate to its highest level since 1995 as expected, investors will now turn to Governor Kazuo Ueda’s pr…
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Two-year deal will cover most of Ukraine’s needs, but will be secured against EU borrowing rather than Russian assetsEuropean Union leaders have decided to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years, after failing to agree on using …
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The United Kingdom has named a replacement for its former ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, who was removed for links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. According to a press release from the U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Christian Turner, whom th…
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The ripples of the auto industry's chip shortage are still being felt, as evidenced by Honda. Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that the automaker will suspend production in Japan on January 5 and 6. (Honda didn't specify the affected factories.) In addition, all three of the automaker's Guangqi Honda…