The piece, made in the 1920s by the British jeweller Garrard, sold for 163,800 pounds ($202,300) during the auction house's "Royal and Noble" sale in London on Wednesday.

The move has stoked concerns among officials in Israel, which has so far refused to send weapons to Kiev

GVS invited Michael Kugelman, director of the South Asia program at the Wilson Center and also deputy director of the Asia program, for an exclusive interview. Kugelman is a leading commentator on South Asia.

The US and Japan are the real security threat to the Asia-Pacific, Beijing insists

Biden's team is cooperating with investigators and the attorney general, Merrick Garland, quickly appointed a special counsel to head the probe into what happened.

Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said he had written to Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting an array of records, from intelligence assessments to communications with the Taliban.

As of Thursday, the president and his predecessor are both under investigation over the apparent mishandling of classified files

US President Joe Biden said on Thursday the U.S. economy was seeing “really bright spots” after a rough few years and was headed to a “new plateau,” a new term for the stable, slower growth White House officials see ahead.

Reports have revealed that TikTok and the Biden administration were on the verge of announcing a long-term deal that would have defined strict safeguards for US users' data.

Course of history cannot be stopped, there is no and never will be an ‘end to history,’ says Russia’s foreign minister.

Unfinished projects are being relocated to Central Asian and Eastern European countries, according to the Russian military.

China blasted an annual U.S. defense spending bill for hyping up the “China threat” while Taiwan welcomed the legislation.