BEIJING (AP) — China’s best-known entrepreneur, e-commerce billionaire Jack Ma, made his fortune by taking big risks. The former English teacher founded Alibaba Group in 1999, when China had few internet users. Online payments service Alipay launched five years later, before regulators...

The Syrian Response Coordinators Group (SRCG) issued a summary of the humanitarian events in northwestern Syria and the violations of the regime and Russian forces during 2020. According to the statistical data issued by SRCG on Monday, there was 288 air strikes carried out by Russian and...

Long after his teammates left the ice on a line change, one boy continued to chase the puck with dogged determination and a beaming glow across his face. "Yamen, Yamen!" his coach called out. "Change up!" The boy, caught up in childlike glee over the game, turned his attention to the bench,...

Families of detainees in Syrian prisons are routinely forced to bribe officials to be allowed to visit them or to win their release, according to a report that reveals the vast scale of extortion in the detention system. The sums involved – rising as high as £2m in one jail - are likely...