ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, appears to be ramping up work in fields well beyond the bounds of social media: Biology, chemistry, natural sciences and pharmaceuticals. The Beijing-based tech giant is recruiting American talent in computational biology, quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics and physics for its “AI for…...

An explosion in a Beirut suburb killed Saleh Arouri, a senior Hamas official, the group said. A U.S. defense official said the Israel Defense Forces was responsible for a strike targeting Arouri, and that an assessment of whether he had been killed was ongoing. Hamas said Israel had carried…...

South Korea’s main opposition party leader Lee Jae-myung was attacked with a knife during a visit to the southern city of Busan on Tuesday, according to an official from his party. Lee was touring the construction site of the Gadeokdo New Airport when he was struck on the…...

North Korea will no longer seek reconciliation and reunification with South Korea, Kim Jong Un has declared, as his nation vowed to put three new military spy satellites into orbit in 2024. Kim said inter-Korean relations had become "a relationship between two hostile countries and two belligerents at...

STRASBOURG, France — From the top floor of the house he shares here with a senior Russian diplomat — to whom he rents the apartment below — the man who helped bankroll the French presidential bid of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen has been working on plans to propel pro-Moscow politicians…...