The multibillion-dollar Stargate Project announced by U.S. President Donald Trump will focus on building data centers with the goal of turning the U.S. into a computing power empire, according to experts. Some believe the significant boost in U.S. computational capabilities will widen the gap with China in artificial intelligence. “And this is an industrial buildout that, at least right now, China really is not in a position to do because of the [semiconductor] export controls that the United States is placing,” said Dean W. Ball, a research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center. However, there are signs that China is catching up with U.S. companies in key AI metrics by relying on open-source software. Click here for the full report in Mandarin.

The move breaks with federal norms against punishing civil servants for actions taken under a different administration.

The Mexican president announced more than 4,000 people were sent to her country during Trump's first week in office.

Experts say Trump administration's order to halt foreign assistance will 'cost many, many lives'.

US immigration officials arrested nearly 1,000 people in a single day as a part of a sweeping nationwide operation.

Auschwitz survivors and world leaders commemorated the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in Poland.

Israel says next release of captives will take place on Thursday, followed by another on Saturday.

The symbol, apparently created by Israeli tanks, can be seen from space in the Palestinian enclave.

Shock to financial markets came from Chinese firm whose AI app it says was made at a fraction of US AI models.

The attack in Tulkarem comes as Israeli raids on the nearby Jenin area of the occupied West Bank enter a seventh day.

Thousands of displaced Palestinians walked along the main roads leading to northern Gaza.

Amid all the celebrations of Trump returning to US power, turncoat rappers kissing his ring have left the rawest wound.

Seventeen people also wounded a day after Israeli forces killed 24 people in south Lebanon following delayed withdrawal.

Furious row defused after US President Donald Trump's threat of sanctions over migration.

European countries say they are eager to help reconstruct war-ravaged country and build bridges with its new leaders.

The M23 armed rebel group said it has captured the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern city of Goma on Monday.

Fighting in and around the city has escalated despite calls from the UN Security Council for the rebels to withdraw.

As President Nicolas Maduro takes up his third term, critics accuse him of continued abuses against rivals.

Expert warns of 'fairly high danger of mud, debris flows' as crews work to put out final pockets of LA-area blazes.

M23 fighters have been pressing to capture strategic eastern city for months and intensified offensives in recent days.