October 23, 2019
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said South Korean facilities in the North’s Mt Kumgang tourist resort must be removed and rebuilt in a modern way, state media reported on Wednes...
ALONG THE VJOSA RIVER (AP) — Under a broad plane tree near Albania’s border with Greece, Jorgji Ilia fills a battered flask from one of the Vjosa River’s many springs.
“There is nothing else ...
DOHUK, Iraq/KABUL (Reuters) — The Pentagon is considering keeping some U.S. troops near oilfields in northeastern Syria alongside Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to help deny oil to Islam...
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won a second term in Canada’s national elections Monday, losing the majority but delivering unexpectedly strong results despite having been w...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russian President Vladimir Putin stepped up Russia’s push for influence in Africa days before he hosts a summit with African leaders, saying on Monday that Moscow could offer h...
BANGKOK (AFP-Jiji) — Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has stripped his 34-year-old consort of all titles for “disloyalty” and apparent “ambition” to match the queen’s position, a roy...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. administration of President Donald Trump is planning to collect DNA samples from asylum-seekers and other migrants detained by immigration officials and will add the info...
SEOUL (AP) — South Korean police have formally arrested four anti-American students who broke into the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Seoul last week while protesting the Trump administration’s ...
SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in said Seoul would increase military spending and urged the North to return to dialogue in a budget speech Tuesday that could infuriate Pyongya...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday that he had failed to form a majority government in parliament, marking a major setback for the embattled Israeli leader that plu...
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP-Jiji) — Facebook said Monday it was tightening its security for the 2020 U.S. elections, amid signs of fresh activity from Russia attacking Democratic presidential candidates, inc...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans were divided Monday over whether the government did the right thing in releasing a drug kingpin’s son after his supporters shot up the northern city of Culiacan. Some...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump called on fellow Republicans on Monday to “get tougher and fight” against the quickly moving House impeachment inquiry as Democrats blocked a GOP bi...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some Democrats are putting up caution signs for Hillary Clinton as she wades back into presidential politics by casting 2020 candidate Tulsi Gabbard as a “Russian asset,” mocki...
LONDON (Reuters) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared confused at a London court hearing on Monday, struggling to recall his name and age in his first public appearance in months as he sought...
LONDON (AP) — Britain faced another week of grinding political gridlock after Prime Minister Boris Johnson was denied a chance Monday to hold a vote by lawmakers on his Brexit divorce bill. With ju...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong officials apologized to Muslim leaders Monday after riot police sprayed a mosque and bystanders with a water cannon while trying to contain turbulent weekend pro-democrac...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump dropped plans to hold an international summit at his Doral resort in Florida after realizing “it looks lousy” to steer business to his own property...
ABU DHABI (AFP-Jiji) — An 8,000-year-old pearl that archaeologists say is the world’s oldest will be displayed in Abu Dhabi, according to authorities who said Sunday it is proof the objects have ...
BERLIN (AP) — Greens made significant gains as Switzerland elected a new parliament on Sunday, while a populist right-wing party remained the country’s strongest but saw its support slip, project...
BARCELONA (AFP-Jiji) — Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez faced sharp criticism Sunday for his handling of violent Catalan separatist protests ahead of next month’s general election...
JAKARTA (AP) — Indonesian President Joko Widodo was sworn in Sunday for his second and final five-year term with pledges to champion democracy and take bolder actions against poverty and entrenched...
BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) — The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday said they had withdrawn from the border town of Ras al Ain under a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal, but a spokesman f...
NABIPUR, India/KULAI, Malaysia (Reuters) — When night falls in the Indian village of Nabipur, the backyard furnaces come to life, burning waste tires from the West, making the air thick with acrid s...
KABUL (AP) — Mark Esper sought a firsthand assessment Sunday of the U.S. military’s future role in America’s longest war as he made his initial visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief. Stalled p...
LA PAZ (Reuters) — Bolivian President Evo Morales shrugged off an early vote count showing Sunday’s election heading for a second round runoff, saying he was confident that uncounted rural votes w...
BEIJING (Reuters ) — Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe said on Monday that resolving the “Taiwan question” is his country’s “greatest national interest,” and that no force could prevent...
SYDNEY (Reuters) — Australia’s biggest newspapers ran front pages on Monday made up to appear heavily redacted, in a protest against legislation that restricts press freedoms, a rare show of unity...
At least a week before Chinese President Xi Jinping was scheduled to arrive in Kathmandu, Nepal’s security forces were already on high alert, detaining dozens of people, primarily Tibetan refugees. ...
SHOPIAN, India (AP) — Kashmir’s apple orchards, a backbone of the economy that supports nearly half the people living there, are deserted with fruit rotting on the trees at a time when they should...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned plans late on Saturday to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort, after Democrats and others had decried th...
LONDON (Reuters) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sent an unsigned letter to the European Union requesting a delay to Britain’s exit from the bloc and also said he did not want the extension...
BARCELONA (Reuters) — The Spanish government dismissed calls on Saturday from Catalonia’s pro-independence regional chief for talks following a wave of violence sparked by the jailing of separatis...
LUXOR, Egypt (AFP-Jiji) — Egypt revealed Saturday a rare trove of 30 ancient wooden coffins that have been well-preserved over millennia in the archaeologically rich Valley of the Kings in Luxor. T...
SANTIAGO (AP) — Chilean President Sebastian Pinera on Saturday announced the suspension of a subway fare hike that had prompted violent student protests, less than a day after he declared a state of...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong police fired tear gas at protesters throwing Molotov cocktails on Sunday as thousands staged an illegal march through the Kowloon district that will test the strength...
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Egyptian security officials and medics said shells hit two houses in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula, killing at least four civilians, including a child. The officials...
MOSCOW (AP) — At least 15 people are dead after a dam at a small Siberian gold mine collapsed and water flooded two workers’ dormitories on Saturday. The Emergencies Ministry also said seven peo...
WEST BRANCH, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Clinton’s suggestion this past week that Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is being “groomed” by Russians to act as a spoiler in the 2020 race may have had the opposi...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has completed its internal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of private email and found violations by 38 people, some of wh...
RAS AL-AIN, Syria (AFP-Jiji) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fired off a fresh warning Saturday to “crush” Kurdish forces as both sides traded accusations of violating a U.S.-brokered t...
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that under the current plan, all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the military will continue to con...
SKOPJE (Reuters) — North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Zoran Zaev called on Saturday for a snap parliamentary election after the European Union failed to give his country a date to start talks on jo...
MONTREAL (AFP-Jiji) — Bearing posters of Justin Trudeau’s face, written over with green crosses and the word “pipeline,” students gathered in front of the prime minister’s Montreal campaign ...
When he first arrived in 2014, Japanese-American entrepreneur Kai Kuramoto heard tourists say that Cambodia is a beautiful country, but they were frustrated by the rubbish littering the streets. Foun...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned plans late on Saturday to host next year’s Group of Seven summit at his Florida golf resort, after Democrats and others had decried th...
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson grudgingly asked the European Union late Saturday to delay Brexit after the British Parliament postponed a decision on whether to back his divorce deal. B...
LONDON (AP) — In a major blow to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, U.K. lawmakers voted Saturday to postpone a decision on whether to back his Brexit deal with the European Union, throwing a wr...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will review a lower court ruling in favor of a man seeking asylum and which the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump says could further clog the U.S. im...
KABUL (Reuters) — Multiple explosions at a mosque in eastern Afghanistan collapsed the roof on worshippers during Friday prayers, killing at least 62 and wounding more than 100, officials said. At...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Turkey will set up a dozen observation posts across northeast Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday, insisting that a planned “safe zone” will extend muc...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s prime minister gave his partners in government a 72-hour ultimatum to come up with “convincing” solutions for a rapidly worsening economic crisis, as nationwide protes...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam took to the airwaves on Saturday to back the use of force by police ahead of a major anti-government march planned this weekend in the Chinese-rule...
SANTIAGO (Reuters) — Chilean President Sebastian Pinera declared a state of emergency in the capital Santiago early on Saturday, as the city of 6 million descended into chaos amid riots that left a...
NICOSIA/LONDON (Reuters) — Cambodia’s long-ruling prime minister, Hun Sen, had gathered athletes at his imposing office for a televised pep talk. “I don’t want to mention politics,” he began...
BARCELONA (Reuters) — Hundreds of protesters battled police in the heart of Barcelona on Friday, setting up fiery barricades and hurling rocks at security forces on the fifth day of unrest following...
CULIACAN, Mexico (AP) — Mexican security forces aborted an attempt to capture a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman after finding themselves outgunned in a ferocious shootout ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A Boeing Co. senior pilot said he might have unintentionally misled regulators in a series of internal messages from 2016 that became public Friday, plunging the world’s la...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The world’s first all-female spacewalking team made history high above Earth on Friday, replacing a broken part of the International Space Station’s power grid.
As...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City lawmakers voted Thursday to close the notorious Rikers Island jail complex, which has become synonymous with violence and neglect, and replace it with four smaller jai...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — Venezuela was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Thursday with 105 votes and a round of applause, despite fierce lobbying by the United States and righ...
The government decided Friday the nation will participate in the U.S. Artemis program, which aims to land astronauts on the moon in 2024. Japan will initially cooperate mainly in the construction o...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — European Union leaders unanimously backed a new Brexit deal with Britain on Thursday, leaving Prime Minister Boris Johnson facing a battle to secure the U.K. parliament’s bac...
ANKARA (Reuters) — Turkey agreed on Thursday to pause its offensive in Syria for five days to let Kurdish forces withdraw from a “safe zone” Ankara had sought to capture, in a deal hailed by th...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Washing his hands of Syria, U.S. President Donald Trump declared Wednesday the United States has no stake in defending the Kurdish fighters who died by the thousands as America’s...
LONDON (Reuters) — From the pinnacle of the City of London’s largest skyscraper, Stuart Lipton is wagering a $1.2 billion bet that the British capital remains a master of the international financi...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Britain and the European Union said Thursday that they have struck an outline Brexit deal after days of intense see-saw negotiations — though it must still be formally approved by...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and Britain inched ever closer to a Brexit deal, with the leaders of France and Germany saying they expected an agreement could be sealed at Thursday’s EU summi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States carried out a secret cyber operation against Iran in the wake of the Sept. 14 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities, which Washington and Riyadh blame ...
LONDON (Reuters) — The quality of education and training provided by African countries has worsened since 2014, leaving many of the continent’s growing population of young people ill-prepared to ...
Political correctness seems to be at the center of more debates lately, if not explicitly then implicitly. So it’s worthwhile to revisit the historical roots of the P.C. debate, to try to see where ...
HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — Hong Kong’s embattled leader abandoned a State of the Union-style speech on Wednesday after she was heckled by rowdy opposition lawmakers during chaotic scenes inside the c...
MANBIJ, Syria (Reuters) — Turkey vowed to press ahead with its offensive in northern Syria on Tuesday despite U.S. sanctions and growing calls for it to stop, while Syria’s Russia-backed army move...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — British and EU officials were to resume talks to clinch a Brexit deal on Wednesday just a few hours after late-night negotiations wound up, but it was far from clear they would...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to surmount U.S.-led sanctions on his country in state media reports Wednesday alongside evocative propaganda images of him riding a white horse, ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — NASA on Tuesday showed off two new spacesuits tailored for future moonwalking astronauts, signaling development of a crucial component to the space agency’s accelerated driv...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States carried out a secret cyber operation against Iran in the wake of the Sept. 14 attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities that Washington and Riyadh blame on ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said on Tuesday they will not cooperate with a U.S. House of Representatives impeac...
NEW YORK (AP) — In reporter Ronan Farrow’s account of his contentious divorce from NBC News, the more evidence he gathered on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct, the l...
BARCELONA (AP) — Violent clashes erupted for a second night in Barcelona between police and protesters angry about the conviction of a dozen Catalan separatist leaders, as Spain launched an investig...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — A gunfight between security forces and armed civilians in Mexico’s southwestern state of Guerrero killed 15 people on Tuesday, authorities said, the second mass killing to ...
ATHENS (Reuters) — A fire in a severely overcrowded migrant camp in Greece forced hundreds of people into the streets, compounding their plight with more refugees arriving on Greek islands daily in ...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A seven-story building collapsed Tuesday in an upscale part of the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, killing one person and leaving others trapped with some communicating with famil...
ROME (Reuters) — Charity rescue ship Ocean Viking headed toward the southern Italian port of Taranto on Tuesday after the government gave it the authorization to bring 176 migrants ashore in a decis...
BANGKOK (Reuters) — The largest ever task force assembled to fight organized crime in Asia has identified a longtime drug trafficker, a China-born Canadian national, as the suspected kingpin of a cr...
KATHMANDU — Swoops of demoiselle cranes (Grus virgo), commonly known as Karyankurung in Nepal, fly in from Siberia over the Tibetan highlands in China to the Himalayas in India every year looking fo...
SINGAPORE — At a command post where the Singapore Armed Forces’ (SAF) strike operations are orchestrated, potential enemy targets appear on a video feed taken from a Heron 1 unmanned aerial vehicl...
NEW YORK (AP) — Facing intense scrutiny from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies, Hunter Biden says he will step down from the board of directors of a Chinese-backed private equity fir...
RIYADH (Reuters) — Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled Moscow’s growing Middle East clout on Monday on his first visit to Saudi Arabia in over a decade, buoyed by Russian military gains in ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The parents of a motorcyclist killed in a traffic crash that involved an American diplomat’s wife took their case directly to U.S. audiences Monday, holding a New York news confer...
TUNIS (AFP-Jiji) — The electoral commission announced Monday that voters gave conservative political outsider Kais Saied a sweeping mandate to be Tunisia’s next president, thanks largely to young ...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — The White House’s alleged effort to pressure Ukraine so alarmed former national security advisor John Bolton that he alerted a lawyer, his former aide said on Monday, accor...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — A Hong Kong court has granted an injunction to ban anyone from blocking or damaging areas used to house married police officers and other disciplined services that have been t...
MUMBAI (Reuters) — India might have thought the worst of a bad loans crisis was past, but a severe cash crunch in the real estate industry could augur fresh strife for its banks.
A slump in the re...
WARSAW (AP) — Poland’s conservative Law and Justice party capitalized on its popular social spending policies to win a majority in the lower house of parliament and another four-year term in gove...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Targeting Turkey’s economy, U.S. President Donald Trump announced sanctions aimed at restraining the Turks’ assault against Kurdish fighters and civilians in Syria — an assa...
BARCELONA (AP) — Riot police engaged in a running battle with angry protesters outside Barcelona’s airport Monday after Spain’s Supreme Court convicted 12 separatist leaders of illegally promoti...
KIEV (AP) — Brandishing red flares and shouting “glory to Ukraine,” thousands of far-right and nationalist activists marched Monday through Kiev, protesting President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s le...
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea’s recently appointed justice minister resigned on Monday saying a graft scandal swirling around his family had become a political burden for President Moon Jae-in’...
SEOUL (AP) — South Korean pop star and actress Sulli was found dead at her home south of Seoul on Monday, police said.
The 25-year-old was found after her manager went to her home in Seongnam beca...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Targeting Turkey’s economy, U.S. President Donald Trump announced sanctions aimed at restraining the Turks’ assault against Kurdish fighters and civilians in Syria — an assa...
STOCKHOLM (AP) — The 2019 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded Monday to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global pove...
AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) — Syria’s Kurds said Syrian government forces agreed Sunday to help them fend off Turkey’s invasion — a major shift in alliances that came after U.S. President Donald Tr...
SEOUL (AP) — South Korea’s justice minister on Monday offered to step down amid an investigation into allegations of financial crimes and academic favors surrounding his family, a scandal that ha...
QUITO (AP) — Ecuador’s army took to the streets Saturday after President Lenin Moreno ordered the first 24-hour curfew in decades in response to a day of attacks on government buildings and media ...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran offered on Saturday to engage Syrian Kurds, Syria’s government and Turkey in talks to establish security along the Turkish-Syrian border following Turkey’s military incurs...
LONDON (Reuters) — Britain remains a long way from agreeing to a final Brexit deal and the next few days will be critical if it is to agree departure terms with the European Union, a Downing Street ...
TEHRAN (AP) — A senior Iranian security official said Saturday that an attack on one of the country’s oil tankers won’t go unpunished, the official IRNA news agency reported. Ali Shamkhani, s...
MAMALLAPURAM, India (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday that relations between their countries have attained stability and momentum in ...
CEYLANPINAR, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s military said it captured a key Syrian border town under heavy bombardment Saturday in its most significant gain since an offensive against Kurdish fighters beg...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Petrol bombs were thrown inside a Hong Kong metro station on Saturday but no one was injured, the government said, as pro-democracy protesters again took to the streets angry a...
LONDON (Reuters) — Wide variations in the way oil companies report their efforts to reduce carbon emissions make it difficult to assess the risk of holding their shares as the world shifts away from...
CHICAGO (Reuters) — Another U.S. senator has joined a chorus against Pennsylvania-based NonLethal Technologies Inc. for selling riot gear to Hong Kong that is being used against pro-democracy protes...
BRASILIA (Reuters) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jumped for the fifth straight month in September compared with last year, with destruction up 93 percent in the first nine months of the year,...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Alexei Leonov, who became the first human to walk in space in 1965, died on Friday at the age of 85 after a long illness, Russia’s TASS news agency reported. Though less well...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Testifying in defiance of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ban, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House impeachment investigators Friday that Trump himself ha...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — A U.S. federal judge in New York on Friday temporarily blocked a Trump administration rule that would deny residency to aspiring immigrants deemed likely to require government a...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — An aggressive wildfire in Southern California seared its way through dry vegetation Friday and spread quickly, destroying more than a dozen homes as tens of thousands of resident...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Union agreed on Friday to enter intense talks with Britain to try to break the deadlock over Brexit, lifting financial markets with a sign that a deal could be don...
Shepard Smith, the chief news anchor of Fox News and a sometime critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, abruptly quit the network on Friday after 23 years. In an unexpected on-air statement at the e...
SAMBURU, Kenya (AP) — When Sabina Losirkale went into labor, her sister Scolastica recalls, priests and religious sisters filled the delivery ward waiting to see the color of the baby’s skin — a...
ISTANBUL/BEIRUT (Reuters) — Turkey intensified its air and artillery strikes in northeast Syria on Friday in an offensive against Kurdish militia that has raised the prospect of a humanitarian disas...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States announced the deployment of additional American military forces to Saudi Arabia on Friday to bolster the kingdom’s defenses after the Sept. 14 attack on i...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Meetings canceled. Escalators stopped. Official travel limited. U.N. documents delayed. Air conditioning and heating reduced. Limits on interpretation to the United Nations’...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Iraq’s top Shiite cleric blamed the Baghdad government on Friday for the killing of scores of protesters, and gave it a two-week deadline to find out which “undisciplined el...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Top U.S. and Chinese negotiators wrapped up a first day of trade talks in more than two months on Thursday as business groups expressed optimism the two sides might be able t...
DUBAI (Reuters) — An Iranian-owned oil tanker was struck by two missiles off the Saudi port of Jeddah on Friday, Iranian state television reported, quoting the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) w...
TEHRAN (AP) — They had to sit well apart from the men, and the stadium was practically empty, but thousands of Iranian women in merry jester hats and face paint blew horns and cheered Thursday at th...
OSLO (Reuters) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his peacemaking efforts with Eritrea.
Ethiopia and Eritrea, longtime foes who fought a border war ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) — Austria’s Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the postponed 2018 award went to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday.
Tw...
AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) — Turkey launched airstrikes, fired artillery and began a ground offensive against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria on Wednesday after U.S. troops pulled back from the area,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A retiring U.S. Republican senator who’s being closely watched for his view on President Donald Trump’s potential impeachment strengthened his stance against Democrats’ inves...
DHAKA (AFP-Jiji) — Bangladeshi economist and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has been issued with an arrest warrant after failing to appear at a hearing over the sacking of workers at a company he hea...
HEMMINGFORD, Canada (Reuters) — Canada’s Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer pledged on Wednesday that if elected his party would take steps to limit illegal border crossings by migrants who ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Defense Intelligence Agency official was arrested Wednesday and charged with leaking classified intelligence information to two journalists, including a reporter he was dating, ...
TUNIS (Reuters) — The moderate Islamist Ennahda will be the largest party in Tunisia’s new parliament, preliminary official results showed on Wednesday, but with only 52 of 217 seats it may strug...
KABUL (Reuters) — U.S. airstrikes on alleged Taliban drug labs in Afghanistan in May killed or wounded at least 39 civilians, including 14 children, and violated international humanitarian law as th...
RABAT (Reuters) — Morocco announced a Cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, reducing the number of jobs to 23 but keeping the foreign, finance and interior ministers in their posts. King Mohammed VI app...
QUITO (AFP-Jiji) — Protesters in Ecuador fought a running battle with security forces Wednesday in a second day of violent demonstrations over a fuel price hike that forced the government to suspend...
ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said Wednesday for the first time that President Donald Trump must be impeached for abusing the powers of his office to help ...
Protesters handed out T-shirts and held up signs in support of Hong Kong on Wednesday night when the Washington Wizards hosted a team from the Chinese Basketball Association. The Wizards beat the G...
HALLE, Germany (AP) — A heavily armed assailant ranting about Jews tried to force his way into a synagogue in Germany on Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day, then shot two people to death nearby in ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Union said on Wednesday it was not shutting the door to a Brexit deal but stressed that London needed to change its stance considerably to secure an agreement.
Wi...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Wednesday announced a Cabinet reshuffle, declared three days of national mourning and said those who shot protesters would be punished a...
TAIPEI (AP) — China is threatening Taiwan “nonstop” and posing a major challenge to regional peace and stability, the island’s President Tsai Ing-wen said in a National Day speech Thursday.
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LONDON (AP) — The European Union warned Wednesday that next-generation telecommunication networks face a range of cyber threats, including from hostile countries.
While steering clear of singling ...
TAIPEI (AFP-Jiji) — Taiwan has expelled a Chinese tourist for damaging a “Lennon Wall” that was put up in support of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, a move likely to irk Beijing. Hong Kong p...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Reuters) — Arm Holdings, the British chip technology firm owned by Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp., is joining with automakers General Motors Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. to establish...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a span of 24 hours, U.S. President Donald Trump moved from threatening to obliterate Turkey’s economy if it invades Syria to inviting its president to visit the White House.
...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — The five European members of the United Nations Security Council urged North Korea on Tuesday “to take concrete steps” toward giving up it nuclear weapons and ballisti...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House declared Tuesday it will halt any and all cooperation with what it termed the “illegitimate” impeachment probe by House Democrats, sharpening the constitutiona...
QUITO (Reuters) — Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno on Tuesday ordered a curfew around government buildings after six days of violent anti-austerity protests that have pushed his administration out...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — A Japanese man who stepped out of his Paris hotel for a cigarette was robbed of his $840,000 Swiss watch by a thief who snatched it off his wrist, police sources said Tuesday. ...
Telling half-truths and outright lies. Manipulating media coverage. Pushing legal boundaries. Pressuring subordinates to do the dirty work. Believing in the force of his own personality. Accepting no ...
New U.S. tariffs on as much as $7.5 billion of exports from the European Union have brought another reminder of how trade wars and protectionism dominate the news.
Yet in the last two years, countri...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States on Tuesday imposed visa restrictions on Chinese officials for the detention or abuse of Muslim minorities, angering Beijing, but a U.S. official said high-le...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) — Chinese state media on Wednesday accused the U.S. National Basketball Association (NBA) of endorsing violence and peddling a “secessionist pipe dream” in an escalating row ...
HONG KONG (AP) — As riot police fought anti-government demonstrators on the streets of Hong Kong over the weekend, two photos popped into the encrypted inbox of a group of volunteer medics who call...
ROME (AP) — Italian lawmakers have backed a radical overhaul of the country’s Parliament that will see around a third of them losing their job.
The long-awaited reform, overwhelmingly approved T...
LUXEMBOURG (AFP-Jiji) — EU officials discussing migration Tuesday expressed concerns that a threat by Turkey to send its troops into northeast Syria might provoke a new wave of refugees to Europe. ...
Japanese musician Miwako Fujiwara has found inspiration in Cambodia utilizing her talent to support disadvantaged children through her choir, Musica Felice. Fujiwara’s choir is also set to hold a c...
ISTANBUL/BEIRUT (Reuters) — Turkey will mount a military operation in northeast Syria, it said Saturday, after accusing Washington of not doing enough to expel Syrian Kurdish fighters from its borde...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — Pope Francis installed new cardinals on Saturday, putting his stamp on the future of the Roman Catholic Church with men who share his vision for social justice, the rights o...
LONDON (Reuters) — British police arrested 10 climate change activists in London ahead of a planned new round of protests by Extinction Rebellion on Monday, police said.
A Reuters photographer sai...
CARACAS/MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov met Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday to underline Moscow’s support for the leftist leader that has helped him s...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Clashes between police and protesters killed five people in Baghdad on Saturday in a resumption of anti-government unrest, as security forces deployed in their hundreds to keep d...
PARIS (Reuters) — France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor said on Saturday an investigation had detected signs of “latent radicalization” in an attacker who knifed four co-workers to death at polic...
ALTO RIO GUAMA INDIGENOUS RESERVE, Brazil (AP) — They hunt with bows and arrows, fish for piranhas and gather wild plants, while some watch soap operas on TV or check the internet on phones inside ...
HONG KONG (AP) — A group of pro-democracy Hong Kong legislators filed a legal challenge against the government’s use of a colonial-era emergency law to criminalize the wearing of masks at rallies ...
HELSINKI (AP) — North Korea’s chief negotiator said that nuclear talks with the U.S. had broken down, but Washington maintained the two sides had “good discussions” in Sweden that it intends t...
In the wake of the recent controversy over the training program on Xi Jinping Thought conducted by the Communist Party of China, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi has said that China has never sou...
There were times 30-year-old Sung Thi Sy thought of running away to escape her violent husband, who regularly beat her when he was drunk. “I was so scared and felt stuck,” Sy, from the Hmong ethni...
The recent unearthing of an ancient mine in Savannakhet Province’s Vilabouly district promises to be an attractive site for tourists and will hopefully generate more income for the local community. ...
BEIJING (AP) — A parade Tuesday by China’s secretive military will offer a rare look at its rapidly developing arsenal, including possibly a nuclear-armed missile that could reach the United State...
KABUL (Reuters) — Afghanistan’s presidential election turnout is unofficially estimated at just over 2 million people or about 20 percent of registered voters, an official said Sunday, solidifyin...
HONG KONG (AP) — Riot police fired tear gas Sunday after a large crowd of protesters at a Hong Kong shopping district ignored warnings to disperse in a second straight day of clashes, sparking fear...
VIENNA (AFP-Jiji) — Austrians began voting Sunday in snap elections, in which the conservatives look set to triumph but face difficulties finding a partner to govern after a corruption scandal broug...
HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump is raising a large chunk of the money for his border wall with Mexico by deferring several military construction projects slated for Guam, a strategic hub...
LONDON (Reuters) — The government of London said it had referred Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Britain’s police watchdog for potential investigation over allegations of misconduct involving a U...
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) — Authorities in Indian Kashmir tightened restrictions on people’s movements on Saturday to prevent possible protests following a speech by Pakistani Prime Minister Imr...
NEW YORK (AFP-Jiji) — Protecting a potentially vulnerable whistleblower versus the public’s need to know: A U.S. newspaper’s publication of information on the man whose complaint led to an impea...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Wary of international interference, Myanmar insisted Saturday it wants Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled to neighboring Bangladesh repatriated to their former homes so they ca...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria’s top diplomat on Saturday demanded the immediate withdrawal of American and Turkish forces from the country and said his government reserves the right to defend its t...
PHOENIX (AP) — A 20-year-old student at Arizona State University broke the news that a key State Department official who was involved in talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian ...
DUBAI (AP) — A prominent bodyguard to Saudi Arabia’s King Salman was shot and killed in what authorities described as a personal dispute, state TV reported Sunday, offering few details on an inci...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Yemen’s Houthi movement said Saturday it had carried out a major attack near the border with the southern Saudi region of Najran and captured many troops and vehicles, but there...
LONDON (Reuters) — A Banksy painting of primates sitting in Britain’s Parliament goes under the hammer this week and is expected to fetch up to $2.5 million.
“Devolved Parliament,” in which ...
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) — Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney warned on Friday that time was running out for Britain and the European Union to hammer out a divorce deal with the British Brexit mi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives who are pursuing an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump forged ahead with their probe on Friday, issuing a subpo...
MONTREAL/THE HAGUE (Reuters) — Teenage activist Greta Thunberg hit back at critics including U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, saying their mockery of children shows her message has become “t...
KABUL (AP) — Afghans headed to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president amid high security and threats of violence from Taliban militants, who warned citizens to stay away from polling statio...
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) — More than 300 captives, most of them children and many in chains, have been rescued from a building in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, a police spokesman said Frid...
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador who set off a political firestorm by disputing U.S. intelligence used to justify the 2003 Iraq invasion, died Friday, according to his ex-...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — A U.S. judge on Friday blocked a Trump administration rule that would have allowed indefinite detention of migrant families, saying it was inconsistent with a decades-old co...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) — Britain’s Prince Harry followed in his late mother’s footsteps on Friday, wearing a protective vest and visor during a visit to a demining project in Angola that echoed...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — One leads the world’s most powerful country. He ricocheted across the United Nations last week, talked about putting America first, sent several annoyed tweets and suddenly f...
MADOI, China (Reuters) — Former nomad Yanglo spent his youth tending yaks and sheep in the highlands of China’s Qinghai Province, but the Tibetan is now often found huddled over a sewing machine i...
RIYADH (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia threw open its doors to foreign tourists on Friday, launching a new visa regime for 49 countries and appealing to foreign companies to invest in a sector it hopes wi...
PARIS (AP) — Affable but armed with a steely will, Jacques Chirac was a consummate politician who served as Paris mayor, lawmaker, prime minister and then president of France for 12 years, always c...
RIYADH (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said he bears responsibility for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year by Saudi operatives “because it happened under my watch,” a...
HARARE (Reuters) — Zimbabwe’s longtime ruler Robert Mugabe will be buried in his home district, not at a national shrine, the government said on Thursday, relenting to the family’s wish for a p...
The Trump administration said Thursday it plans to allow only 18,000 refugees to resettle in the United States in the 2020 fiscal year, the lowest number in the history of the modern refugee program....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Trump administration on Thursday imposed U.S. travel sanctions on Cuban Communist Party chief Raul Castro over his support for Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolas ...
DHAKA (AP) — Authorities in Bangladesh will build barbed-wire fences around sprawling camps housing Rohingya refugees to stop their expansion, a Cabinet minister said Thursday.
Home Minister Asadu...
VIENNA (Reuters) — Iran has committed another breach of its nuclear deal with major powers by enriching uranium with advanced centrifuges, a report by the U.N. nuclear watchdog policing that deal s...
NEW YORK (AFP-Jiji) — The United States vowed a response Thursday as it said it had confirmed another chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces, although there were no fat...
BEIJING (Reuters) — China needs the strong, unified leadership of the Communist Party or the country will “crumble,” the government said in a policy paper released on Friday ahead of the 70th a...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea said Friday it wants U.S. President Donald Trump to make a “wise option and bold decision” to produce a breakthrough in stalled nuclear diplomacy, in an escalation of p...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russian border guards detained three North Korean fishing vessels and 262 crew members for poaching in waters that Moscow considers its exclusive economic zone, the Interfax news...
KABUL (Reuters) — Afghanistan deployed more than 100,000 troops and police on Thursday to guard polling stations for a presidential election which the Taliban has threatened to disrupt with suicide...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Iran can discuss other issues with the United States providing its 2015 nuclear deal with six powers is fully implemented, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Thursday, add...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Pentagon said on Thursday it plans to send four radar systems, a battery of Patriot missiles and about 200 support personnel to bolster Saudi Arabia’s defenses after th...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took to the world stage on Thursday to slam the United States for “depriving the peace process of any credibility” and undermining pros...
SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — A South Korean mayor who dumped a ton of trash on a clean beach to give environmental campaigners something to pick up has said he was sorry for his deception. Officials trucke...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed a limited trade deal on Wednesday that cuts tariffs on U.S. farm goods, Japanese machine tools and other product...
MIRPUR/MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) — The death toll from an earthquake that struck Pakistani Kashmir jumped to 37, officials said on Wednesday, as families mourned relatives and rescue teams s...
SEOUL (Reuters) — Aiming to cash in on a major push by South Korea to promote fuel cell vehicles, Sung Won-young opened a hydrogen refueling station in the city of Ulsan last September. Just one yea...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — She stepped onto the biggest of global stages to face the most diverse of audiences, and she made it count. “How dare you?” she kept saying to some of the world’s most po...
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — After a decade of booming enrollment by students from China, American universities are starting to see steep declines as political tensions between the two countries cut into...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) — A legislator from Haiti’s ruling party fired a handgun during a protest on Monday, injuring a photojournalist as anger rises over fuel and food shortages in the Caribbea...
HARARE (Reuters) — Zimbabwe’s capital shut its main water works on Monday citing shortages of foreign currency to import treatment chemicals, the deputy mayor said, potentially leaving the city d...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival Benny Gantz launched negotiations on Monday over a proposed Israeli unity government and a key politician said the focus...
THE AFSLUITDIJK, Netherlands (AP) — Rising up in a thin line through the waters separating the provinces of North Holland and Friesland, the 87-year-old Afsluitdijk is one of the low-lying Netherla...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Amnesty International on Tuesday urged the Hong Kong government to investigate police use of force during nearly four months of protests, and to encourage Beijing to safeguard...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s opposition Labour Party voted Monday in support of leader Jeremy Corbyn’s bid to remain neutral on the question of whether Britain should proceed with plans to leave the ...
WAMENA, Indonesia (AFP-Jiji) — At least 26 people have been killed in fresh unrest in Indonesia’s restive Papua region, authorities said Tuesday, as thousands fled to shelters following a day of v...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The growing flap over whether U.S. President Donald Trump used his office to seek re-election help from his Ukrainian counterpart poses political risks, and some opportunities...
DAMASCUS (AP) — Syrian authorities captured and dismantled Saturday a drone rigged with cluster bombs near the border with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, state news agency SANA said.
SANA gav...
HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — Hong Kong reduced rail and bus links to the city’s airport on Sunday and police stepped up security checks in a bid to scupper plans by pro-democracy protesters to disrupt t...
BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III formally declared his candidacy for the U.S. Senate on Saturday, becoming the first member of the Kennedy political dynasty to run for the upper chamber of C...
ATHENS (AP) — Greek police said Saturday they have arrested a suspect in the 1985 hijacking of a flight from Athens that became a multi day ordeal and included the slaying of an American.
Police s...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Over a hundred demonstrators were arrested at yellow vest protests in Paris on Saturday as about 7,500 police were deployed to deal with the movement’s radical anarchist “blac...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The money-losing Three Mile Island, the 1979 site of the United States’ worst commercial nuclear power accident, was shut down Friday by its energy giant owner. The end of...
The U.S. government will spend $3 million to find out if marijuana can relieve pain, but none of the money will be used to study the part of the plant that gets people high.
Nine research grants ann...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran will pursue any aggressor, even it carries out a limited attack, and seek to destroy it, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, after attacks on Saudi oi...
BRIGHTON, England (AFP-Jiji) — Britain’s main opposition Labour Party began its annual conference desperately searching for a coherent Brexit plan to stem a potential drubbing in a looming electio...
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say they’ve deciphered features of the skull and some other details of a mysterious, extinct cousin of Neanderthals by analyzing its DNA.
The genetic material came fro...
ABQAIQ, Saudi Arabia (AFP-Jiji) — Saudi Arabia on Friday revealed extensive damage to key oil facilities following weekend aerial strikes that were blamed on Iran, but vowed to quickly restore full ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Australia’s prime minister on Friday for only the second state visit of his administration, signaling the close bond between the two all...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced Israeli media headlines on Friday suggesting power is slipping from his grasp after an election in which he trails his main riva...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump urged the new leader of Ukraine this summer to investigate the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. De...
DUBAI (Reuters) — The United States said on Thursday it was building a coalition to deter Iranian threats following a weekend attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities.
Iran has warned U.S. Presiden...
DONG NAI, Vietnam — When Nguyen Van Long was 26 years old, he moved to Nam Bau Islet in the middle of a lake in the southern province of Dong Nai. Nothing unusual about that, but at the time he was ...
The Ministry of Environment has issued a total of 59 notices to souvenir vendors in the capital and Siem Reap and Preah Sihanouk provinces instructing them to halt the selling of sculptures made of el...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Adam Neumann showed he can capitalize on troubled times a decade ago, tapping into demand for work space by those forced out of jobs in the aftermath of the financial crisis to ...
LAUNCESTON, Australia — The attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities have done more than knock out about 5 percent of global crude supplies, they have provided a myriad of lessons for all involved...
BANGKOK (Reuters) — A group of Buddhist hardliners in Thailand filed a police complaint against a young female artist on Wednesday over paintings that depict images of the Buddha as the 1960s Japane...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany faces a decisive week in its efforts to combat climate change, with Chancellor Angela Merkel pledging Saturday that Europe’s biggest economy will find good solutions but her ...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Singapore’s air quality deteriorated to “unhealthy” levels on Saturday for the first time in three years, data from the National Environment Agency (NEA) showed, threate...
CAIRO (AP) — The prosecution of a 15-year-old girl who killed a bus driver after he allegedly tried to rape her has reignited debate over the treatment of women in Egypt’s legal system, including...
FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Tropical Storm Humberto moved away from the Bahamas on Saturday after dumping rain on parts of the archipelago’s northwest region that were already hammered by Hurricane ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hundreds of Hong Kong protesters singing “God Save the Queen” and waving Union Jack flags rallied outside the British Consulate on Sunday demanding that the former colonial...
HARARE (AP) — African heads of state joined thousands of Zimbabweans at a state funeral Saturday for Zimbabwe’s founding president, Robert Mugabe, whose burial has been delayed for at least a mon...
BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s far-right Freedom Party elected former minister and presidential candidate Norbert Hofer as its leader on Saturday as it seeks to return to power in a Sept. 29 national el...
BEIJING (AP) — China has banned flying kites, drones and captive pigeons over central Beijing for more than two weeks as it prepares for a military parade and other celebrations to mark the 70th an...
LONDON (AP) — The British prime minister who called the 2016 Brexit referendum and then saw the public vote to leave the European Union, creating the nation’s prolonged political crisis, says he ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about a possible mutual defense treaty between the two nations, a move t...
MOSCOW (AFP-Jiji) — Russia’s world first floating nuclear power station on Saturday completed a 5,000-kilometer Arctic transfer to the country’s far east, the Rosatom nuclear agency said. “Th...
LONDON (AP) — A unique solid gold toilet that was part of an art exhibit was stolen early Saturday from the magnificent home in England where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born. The...
Literature is among the crucial elements for a city’s growth. UNESCO, for instance, initiates World Book Capital and City of Literature programs that highlight the importance of literacy to advance ...
On the last day of July, decomposing bodies of a mother in her 40s and her 6-year-old son were found in their apartment in Seoul. Their deaths were apparently due to starvation. The case would be sh...
NEW YORK — UNICEF arranged 3,758 little blue backpacks in rows reminiscent of a graveyard at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sunday, to represent the number of children reported to have been ki...
LETICIA, Colombia (Reuters) — Seven Amazonian countries on Friday signed a pact to protect the world’s largest tropical forest via disaster response coordination and satellite monitoring, amid rec...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Friday again urged people to stop vaping until they figure out why some are coming down with serious breathing illnesses. Officials have identified about ...
KABUL/HERAT (Reuters) — Taliban fighters launched fresh assaults in the western Afghan province of Farah on Friday, government officials said, part of a wave of violence that has cast a shadow over ...
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose for the fourth straight month in August from a year earlier, according to preliminary government data released Frida...
TEHRAN (AFP-Jiji) — Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday ordered all limits on nuclear research and development to be lifted, the country’s third step in scaling down its commitments to ...
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Bloomberg) — China and the U.S. announced that face-to-face negotiations aimed at ending their tariff war will be held in Washington in the coming weeks, amid skepticism on both ...
Professional gaming is becoming an increasingly nuanced field with the advent of “gaming disorder,” but esports are still flourishing. With gaming indulgence now identified as a diagnosable disord...
The number of women working in urban Bangladesh has been declining since 2010, but it is the opposite in the case of rural women, according to a report released on Saturday. In 2010, the urban female ...
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) — A Kashmiri militant commander said on Sunday that Pakistan should send troops to protect the people of India-controlled Kashmir if the United Nations does not send...
SYDNEY (Reuters) — The Solomon Islands, one of Taiwan’s few remaining diplomatic allies, has formed a team of ministers to talk to Beijing ahead of a possible switch in ties that could be unveiled...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump expressed a commitment Sunday, hours after the latest deadly mass shooting, to work with a divided Congress to “stop the menace of mass attacks.” He...
BERUWALA, Sri Lanka (Reuters) — Sri Lanka presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been a polarizing figure for much of his political life. It is an image he is trying to change. When he was ...
JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) —Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was prepared for any scenario after a cross-border clash with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, but neither side...
MILAN (Reuters) — Italy’s prime minister said on Sunday he expected to finalize talks over a new government by Wednesday, as the 5-Star Movement and Democratic Party were in intense discussions du...
LONDON (Reuters) — British lawmakers opposed to a no-deal Brexit will attempt to pass a law this week to stop Prime Minister Boris Johnson from letting Britain crash out of the European Union on Oct...
CARACAS (Reuters) — The United States is not seeking a military intervention as a solution to the economic and political crisis in Venezuela, the U.S. envoy to the troubled South American nation sa...
SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen staged multiple airstrikes on a detention center operated by the Houthi rebels in the southwestern province of Dhamar, killing at least...
KABUL (Reuters) — U.S. and Taliban negotiators are close to a deal that would open the way for peace in Afghanistan, a top U.S. official said on Sunday, as the insurgents followed their weekend assa...
KHARTOUM (AFP-Jiji) — Sudan’s ousted president Omar al-Bashir was charged in court Saturday with illegal acquisition and use of foreign funds, offences that could land him behind bars for more tha...
ROME (Bloomberg) — Italy’s premier-designate Giuseppe Conte, plagued by skirmishes between unlikely bedfellows as he seeks to forge a new ruling coalition, made progress on drawing up a common pr...
McLEAN’S TOWN CAY, Bahamas (AP) — Hurricane Dorian bore down on the northern Bahamas on Saturday with howling winds, surging seas and a threat of torrential rains, forcing some evacuations and ho...
SYDNEY (Reuters) — Thousands of people turned out on Friday night to celebrate East Timor’s independence on the 20th anniversary of the 1999 referendum that led to the end of Indonesian occupation...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Nearly 2 million people from the east Indian state of Assam were excluded Saturday from a final citizenship list that is intended to identify legal residents and weed out illegal im...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — A few thousand Russians took to the streets of central Moscow on Saturday to demand free elections to the capital’s city legislature on Sept. 8, defying a ban that has been enfo...
Circus Kathmandu is looking to redefine — both circus and stories of struggles of trafficking survivors. While eight boys are running back and forth, warming up for the cartwheels, five girls are st...
WASHINGTON (AP) — When shots rang out last year at a high school in Parkland, Florida, leaving 17 people dead, President Donald Trump quickly turned his thoughts to creating more mental institution...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police fired blue-colored water from water cannons and tear gas on Saturday in a standoff with protesters outside government headquarters.
While other protesters marched...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Earlier this summer, Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, submitted a report to Beijing that assessed protesters’ five key demands and found that withdrawing a conte...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg took her weekly campaign for greater action on climate change to the gates of the United Nations on Friday, urging “everyone who...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Trade teams from China and the United States continue to talk and will meet in September, but tariff increases on Chinese goods set to go in place on Sunday will not be delay...
VIENNA (AP) — The U.N. atomic watchdog reported Friday that Iran remains in violation of limitations set by the 2015 nuclear deal with major powers and that its stockpile of low-enriched uranium is...
OSLO/ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Turkey said on Friday that an Iranian oil tanker at the center of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran was headed to Lebanon’s waters, but the United States late...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday posted on Twitter a photo of what appeared to be the site of a failed Iranian satellite launch, raising questions about whether he had di...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran showed off an undamaged satellite on Saturday, days after a rocket exploded on its launchpad in the third failed launch of the year, which U.S. President Donald Trump had twee...
SEOUL (AP) — South Korea’s top court on Thursday sent back jailed ex-President Park Geun-hye’s corruption case to a lower court for separate trials for her previously convicted charges, a rulin...
ROME (Reuters) — Italy’s 5-Star Movement and the opposition Democratic Party (PD) said on Wednesday they would try to form a coalition, setting aside years of hostility to avert a snap election a...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Jet-car speed racer Jessi Combs, known by fans as the “fastest woman on four wheels,” has died in a crash in Oregon’s Alvord Desert while trying to break a speed record, ...
Garbage disposal is an increasingly serious problem in Africa. Leakage of hazardous substances threatens the health of residents, and there have been many fatal accidents in which people were killed ...
The skin and bones of Jasper, a male Indochinese tiger that died at the Phnom Tamao Wildlife Rescue Centre (PTWRC) on Aug. 8, will be preserved and displayed as a museum collection, PTWRC director Nhe...
The killing of a local politician by a few rogue Rohingya at a Teknaf camp worsens already strained relations between the groups. Tensions ran high in Teknaf’s Hnila union on Aug. 24 after some Roh...
The Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) starts its seventh summit conference Wednesday in Yokohama, aiming to further strengthen Japan’s ties with African countries throug...
NEW YORK (AP) — Can someone as notorious in the #MeToo era as Harvey Weinstein get a fair trial in the world’s media capital? That’s one of the legal questions looming over the sexual assault...
JERUSALEM (AFP-Jiji) — Israeli warplanes hit the Gaza Strip’s ruling Hamas movement early Monday in response to earlier rocket fire from the territory into Israel, the army said in a statement. ...
PARIS (AP) — Paris celebrated the American soldiers, French Resistance fighters and others who liberated the City of Light from Nazi occupation exactly 75 years ago on Sunday, unleashing an eruptio...
SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — Placido Domingo received a standing ovation as he took to the stage at the Salzburg Festival on Sunday, a concerted show of support at his first performance since nine wome...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Leaders of the Group of Seven nations said Sunday they are preparing to help Brazil battle fires burning across the Amazon region and repair the damage as tens of thousands of ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police drew their guns and fired a warning shot after protesters attacked officers with sticks and rods, and brought out water cannon trucks for the first time, in an esc...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Andrew responded to intense media scrutiny of his links to Jeffrey Epstein by issuing a statement Saturday denying any knowledge of criminal behavior by his one-tim...
YANGON (Reuters) — When Myanmar officials toured refugee camps in Bangladesh last month, inviting Rohingya Muslims who fled the country to return, they brought with them pamphlets adorned with carto...
The Education, Youth and Sport Ministry has approved a request from the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) to set up a research office and library in the Prey Veng provincial teacher training c...
About a quarter of older workers want to work and stay in their current jobs, according to a recent survey of more than 400 workers released by the Center for Seniors. A separate study of around 300 ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday it had identified 193 potential cases of severe lung illness tied to vaping in 22 states as of Aug. 22, includ...
BEIRUT (Reuters) — An Israeli drone fell in the Hezbollah-dominated southern suburbs of Beirut and a second one exploded near the ground on Sunday, a Hezbollah official told Reuters, in the first s...
JERUSALEM/DAMASCUS (Reuters) — Israeli aircraft on Saturday struck Iranian forces near Damascus that had been planning to launch “killer drones” at targets in Israel, an Israeli military spokes...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s government on Saturday barred several opposition leaders from visiting Indian-administered Kashmir to assess the situation created by a massive security crackdown in the ...
MOSCOW (AFP-Jiji) — An unmanned spacecraft carrying Russia’s first humanoid robot to be sent into orbit failed to dock automatically at the International Space Station on Saturday, in a new setbac...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well a...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong police said Sunday they arrested 29 people after clashes overnight in which volleys of tear gas were fired to disperse anti-government protesters, as the Asian financ...
BEIJING — Foreign Minister Taro Kono and his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha confirmed at their meeting in Beijing on Wednesday that they should resolve their differences through dialogue t...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for urgent investment in the education of the Rohingya children who live at different refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. The call came from a repo...
The Interior Ministry is planning to deport 128 Chinese nationals after they were arrested in Preah Sihanouk Province on Aug. 14 for their alleged involvement in an online money extortion scam. Y Sokh...
The government is making final arrangements to include the promotion of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy led by Japan and the United States in a declaration at the upcoming Tokyo International Co...
BEIJING — China’s Yutu 2 lunar rover has entered its eighth period of dormancy on the moon’s far side and is in good condition after traveling 271 meters, according to China National Space Admin...
PHNOM PENH — Naturally, twins Sor Sophany and Sor Sophanin share a lot in common — not least their names — but most important among the pair’s similarities are two things; firstly their love f...
KATHMANDU — Last week, 44 cattle died in Sunsari, something conservationists and veterinarians say could pose immediate danger to park animals and local residents. Following the discovery of dozens...
The government plans to analyze how Japanese firms will be impacted by South Korea’s decision to remove Japan from its list of countries receiving preferential trade status. At this point, the domi...
NEW DELHI (AP) — A strict curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir in effect for a fifth day was eased Friday to allow residents to pray at mosques, officials said, but some protests still broke out i...
LONDON (Reuters) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote to all government employees on Friday to tell them that preparing for a no-deal exit from the European Union is his and their top prior...
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana returned Friday to the Mexican beach where her father entered the United States illegally before she was born, this time to put final touches on a ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Another weekend of protests in Hong Kong began Saturday with a rally of parents calling for greater protection for their children as ordinary people have increasingly become caught...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he believes he has influence to rally Republicans around stronger federal background check laws as Congress and the White House work on a re...
SEOUL (Reuters) — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper met with senior South Korean leaders on Friday amid a series of regional challenges ranging from a bitter trade row between Seoul and Tokyo to the...
PHNOM PENH (AP) — Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died Sunday, the country’s U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal said. He...
NEW DELHI (AFP-Jiji) — The Indian government on Monday rushed through a presidential decree to scrap Kashmir’s special status, tightening its grip on a fractious region also claimed by Pakistan in...
VALLETTA (Reuters) — A group of 40 migrants rescued by a German charity ship landed in Malta on Sunday and will be taken care off by other European Union member states following a deal negotiated b...
ELYAKIM ARMY BASE, Israel (Reuters) — Israel, a world leader in high-tech, is around 30 years away from its ambition of deploying robot forces, and for now will chose between three prototypes of se...
IDLIB, Syria (Reuters) — Shopkeepers and residents in Idlib have found relief from airstrikes but remain wary after a ceasefire halted fierce government bombing against the rebel foothold.
For th...
JAKARTA (Reuters) — United Nations investigators urged world leaders on Monday to impose targeted financial sanctions on companies linked to the military in Myanmar, and said foreign firms doing bu...
KHARTOUM (AFP-Jiji) — Sudan’s ruling generals and protest leaders signed a hard-won constitutional declaration on Sunday, paving the way for a transition to civilian rule after more than seven mon...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) — New Zealand plans to decriminalize abortion and treat it is as a health issue, the government said Monday in the first major reform to abortion laws in more than four decades...
LONDON (Reuters) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson will fast-track funding for Britain’s public health service, announcing £1.8 billion ($2.19 billion) to upgrade 20 hospitals, part of the new leade...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, its third...
SAO PAULO (Reuters) — Ricardo Galvao, the sacked head of Brazil’s space research agency, said on Saturday the trend of sharply rising deforestation was undeniable, a day after he was fired follow...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea said Saturday its leader Kim Jong Un supervised another test-firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could potentially enhance the country’s ability to strik...
SYDNEY (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said he wants to deploy an intermediate range conventional missile in the Pacific region within months, now that the Trump administration has formall...
ANKARA (AFP-Jiji) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday laid the foundation stone for the first new church in Turkey since it became a modern republic in 1923. The church in the Istanbul su...
SRINAGAR/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) — Thousands of Indian tourists, pilgrims and workers began leaving the disputed region of Kashmir after a local government alert over possible militant attacks, and Ind...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. President Donald Trump invited Iran’s foreign minister to the White House last month at the height of tensions between the two countries, a magazine reports. The inv...
BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Thailand on Saturday with his hopes for resuming nuclear talks with North Korea dashed, while facing an escalating trade war with China and a ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) — A powerful undersea earthquake that struck off the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java has killed four people and damaged hundreds of buildings, the nation’s disaster agenc...
ST MARGARET’S BAY, England (AFP-Jiji) — A Frenchman who has spent years developing a jet-powered hoverboard zoomed across the English Channel on Sunday after a first attempt last month was cut sho...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Royal Navy says one of its ships shadowed a Chinese destroyer as it sailed through the English Channel.
A navy statement said the HMS Westminster met up with the guided-m...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates’ tussle over health care reform continued Saturday as they pitched themselves to Nevada union members, with former Vice President Joe Biden dec...
MOSCOW (AP) — Police in Moscow cracked down hard on an unsanctioned election protest for the second weekend in a row Saturday, detaining more than 800 people at a rally against the exclusion from ci...
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the scrapping of a landmark arms control agreement Friday, the U.S. announced plans to test a new missile amid growing concerns about emerging threats and new weapons. U.S....
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea fired what appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles twice Friday into the sea off its eastern coast in its third round of weapons tests in just over a week, South Kore...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescuers in India on Saturday safely evacuated all 700 passengers from a train after it got stuck in monsoon floodwaters between two stations near Mumbai, the country’s home mini...
MANILA (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the indefinite closure of popular lotteries run by the government’s sweepstakes agency due to alleged massive corruption and said ev...
TUNIS (AP) — Tunisians and world leaders bid adieu on Saturday to the country’s first democratically elected president, Beji Caid Essebsi, who died in office at 92 and left the North African nati...
LONDON (Bloomberg) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reiterated that the so-called Irish backstop will need to be dropped from Britain’s divorce plan from the European Union before a broader ...
JAKARTA (AP) — Indonesia’s president said in an interview that he wants to see the speedy construction of a giant sea wall around Jakarta to prevent the low-lying capital from sinking under the se...
BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian government airstrike hit a busy open-air market in the country’s northwest on Saturday, killing at least 11 people, most of them children, according to activists. The town ...
TEHRAN (AP) — A top Omani diplomat was in Iran on Saturday for bilateral talks after weeks of volatility over the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for a fifth of all globally traded crude.
Oman, s...
BUDAPEST (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister said Saturday that the European Union has made “grave mistakes” in the past five years regarding immigration and the economy. The European Commission ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police on Saturday fired tear gas, swung batons and forcefully cleared out protesters who defied warnings not to march in a neighborhood where the weekend before last a m...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday denigrated a majority-black district represented by a congressional nemesis as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” broadening ...
SANGATTE, France (AP) — Looking like a superhero, the French inventor of an airborne hoverboard glided partway over the English Channel on his personal flying machine then crashed in the sea Thursd...
CARACAS (Reuters) — A proposal to modify U.S. oil sanctions on Venezuela to allow crude exports to be bartered for food has divided the country’s opposition between those who say the move would s...
MADRID (Reuters) — Spain’s parliament rejected Pedro Sanchez’s bid to be confirmed as prime minister on Thursday, putting the country on a path to what could be its fourth national election in ...
LONDON (Reuters) — Britain has started sending a warship to accompany all British-flagged vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, a change in policy announced on Thursday after the government previous...
MANILA (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte offered a bounty to anybody who can deliver to him the head of the communist rebel leader behind the killings of four police intelligence officers...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea’s test of a new missile is meant as a “solemn warning” over rival South Korea’s weapons development and plans to hold military drills with the United States, Pyongy...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday reinstated a two-decades-long dormant policy allowing the federal government’s use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled t...
WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said he would be willing to travel to Tehran to address the Iranian people about U.S. foreign policy as the Trump administration applies ma...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. lawmakers say they are unhappy about Turkey’s purchase of a Russian missile defense system but are unsure what President Donald Trump — or Congress — should do nex...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Suicide bombings, mass kidnappings, tens of thousands of people killed. A ghastly insurgency by the homegrown Islamic extremist group Boko Haram marks 10 years this week i...
TUNIS (AP) — Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country’s first democratically elected leader and a symbol of the generation of Tunisians who shook off French rule in the 1950...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — The United States on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel’s demolition of Pal...
KABUL (AP) — Every day before dawn, 10-year-old Kamran goes to work with his father and other relatives at a brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul. Like many children in Afghanistan, school is a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Mueller’s testimony Wednesday sent the clearest signal yet that impeachment may be slipping out of reach for Democrats and that the ultimate verdict on U.S. President Don...
BANGKOK (Reuters) — Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha faced opposition questions in parliament for the first time on Thursday as the former junta leader set out his government’s plans...
GENEVA/DUBAI (Reuters) — The top military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Tehran would not negotiate with the United States under any circumstances,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to stop denying asylum to anyone who transits through another country to reach the U.S. border, marking the lates...
BEIRUT (AFP-Jiji) — Bombardment by the Syrian regime and its Russian ally killed 20 civilians including five children Wednesday in the latest violence to hit northwest Syria. The Syrian regime and...
NEW YORK (AP) — Dutch film actor Rutger Hauer, who specialized in menacing roles, including a memorable turn as a murderous android in “Blade Runner” opposite Harrison Ford, has died. He was 75...
SAN JUAN (AP) — Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello said late Wednesday that he will resign Aug. 2 after nearly two weeks of furious protests and political upheaval touched off by a leak of crude and...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — A dangerously intense heatwave across much of Europe is to spike even higher Thursday after already breaking records in several countries, impacting rail traffic and sending peopl...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday hailed Pakistan’s help in advancing peace talks in Afghanistan, a marked shift in tone as the United States seeks an accord with the T...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said European countries had made progress on plans to redistribute refugees rescued in the Mediterranean, efforts criticized by Italy’...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday praised Beijing’s handling of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, a day after suspected triad gangsters attacked demonstrators in a b...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India sent a spacecraft to explore water deposits on the far side of the moon in a successful launch Monday after a technical problem caused a week’s delay.
Scientists at the mi...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration announced Monday that it will vastly extend the authority of immigration officers to deport migrants without allowing them to appear before judges, its seco...
NEW YORK (AP) — He won’t watch. Well, maybe just a little bit. U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday feigned indifference to Robert Mueller’s upcoming congressional testimony, an eyebrow-raisi...
CARACAS (AFP-Jiji) — Venezuela claimed on Monday that a U.S. “spy plane” had entered its airspace, just days after Washington accused a Venezuelan fighter jet of “aggressively” shadowing an ...
CARACAS (AFP-Jiji) — Caracas and other parts of crisis-wracked Venezuela were hit by a massive power cut on Monday that the government blamed on an “electromagnetic attack.” The lights went out...
SAN JUAN (Reuters) — Police in San Juan fired tear gas on Monday night to disperse thousands of protestors demanding Puerto Rico’s govenor resign over offensive chat messages, the latest scandal ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Behind America’s late leap into orbit and triumphant small step on the moon was the agile mind and guts of steel of Chris Kraft, making split-second decisions that propelled the...
PARIS (AP) — Swedish teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg has received the first Freedom Prize awarded by France’s Normandy region, which last month commemorated the 75th D-Day anniversary...
KIEV (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s party was headed to win the biggest share of votes in the Ukraine’s snap parliamentary election, according to an exit poll Sunday, but it was unclear...
VATICAN CITY (AFP-Jiji) — The Vatican on Saturday opened two burial chambers discovered under a trapdoor as it attempts to get to the bottom of a riddle involving two 19th-century princesses and a t...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — London’s Metropolitan Police apologized Saturday after its Twitter, emails and news pages were targeted by hackers and began pumping out a series of bizarre messages. After a ...
KIEV (AFP-Jiji) — Ukrainians on Sunday went to the polls to elect a new parliament as comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelenskiy seeks to bring in political novices and consolidate his power.
Ze...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller will submit to questions for the first time Wednesday on his explosive report detailing numerous links between President Donald Trump’s ...
ATHENS (Reuters) — Greece will submit a 2020 budget later this year that will fully respect the fiscal targets agreed with its lenders, newly elected Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Satur...
HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — Another huge anti-government march kicked off in Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon with seemingly no end in sight to the turmoil engulfing the finance hub, sparked by years of ris...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A moonstruck nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s “giant leap” by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at parties, races, ball games and concerts Saturd...
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) — Panama on Saturday became the first Central American nation to ban single-use plastic bags to try to curb pollution on its beaches and help tackle what the United Nations ha...
SYDNEY (Reuters) — New Zealanders have handed over more than 10,000 guns, weapons parts and accessories in the first week of a buy-back scheme prompted by the country’s worst peacetime mass shoot...
HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. government on Friday expanded its requirement that asylum seekers wait outside the country to a part of the Texas Rio Grande Valley across from one of Mexico’s most danger...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) — The United States should reject “prejudice” and respect facts instead of vilifying China’s record on religious rights, the Communist Party newspaper People’s Daily said...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany is marking the 75th anniversary of the most famous plot to kill Adolf Hitler, honoring those who resisted the Nazis — who were stigmatized for decades as traitors — as pil...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Supreme Court upheld Friday a lower court’s ruling that the Netherlands is partially liable in the deaths of some 350 Muslim men who were murdered by Bosni...
Sophisticated phony videos called deepfakes have attracted plenty of attention as a possible threat to election integrity. But a bigger problem for the 2020 U.S. presidential contest may be “dumbfa...
As I reach the end of my service as U.S. Ambassador to Japan, I do so with pride and satisfaction in the excellent work Mission Japan has done to strengthen our U.S.-Japan relationship during my tenu...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Local authorities in Paris stressed Thursday that lead contamination from the fire at Notre-Dame cathedral posed no danger to the public after claims in a media report that pollu...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said that China was responsible for the “stain of the century” of human rights abuses, citing mass detentions of Muslims and ot...
DUBAI (AP) — Iran said Thursday its Revolutionary Guard seized a foreign oil tanker and its crew of 12 for smuggling fuel out of the country, and hours later released video showing the vessel to be...
ROME (AFP-Jiji) — Landfills in flames and rats feasting on waste in the streets have sparked health fears in Rome, as doctors warn families to steer clear of disease-ridden curbside garbage and loc...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The mystery of the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee took yet another twist Saturday following excavations this week at a Vatican City cemeter...
CHONBURI, Thailand (AP) — Farmers in eastern Thailand on Saturday celebrated the start of the sowing season by racing their buffaloes, whose usual duty is to plow the fields.
The annual Wooden Plo...
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian Proton-M rocket successfully delivered a cutting-edge space telescope into orbit Saturday after days of launch delays, Russia’s space agency said. Roscosmos said the tele...
LONDON (AP) — A British police investigation into the leak of confidential diplomatic memos is raising press freedom issues, as police warned Saturday that U.K. media outlets might face a criminal ...
KATHMANDU (AP) — Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall have killed at least 43 people in Nepal in the past few days, with more deaths reported across the Himalayan border in India, of...
TAIPEI (AP) — Taiwan on Saturday defended a proposal to purchase $2.2 billion in arms from the U.S., following a Chinese announcement that it would sanction any American companies involved in the de...
KIEV (Reuters) — Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday they were investigating an attack on a Kiev television station owned by an opposition election candidate, which caused damage but injured no ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Violent clashes broke out after several thousand people marched in Hong Kong against traders from mainland China in what is fast becoming a summer of unrest in the semiautonomous t...
MOGADISHU/GAROWE (Reuters) — Kenyans, Americans, a Briton and Tanzanians were among 26 people killed when Islamist gunmen stormed a hotel in the Somali port city of Kismayo, officials said on Satur...
BEIRUT (AP) — Two months of intensive airstrikes by Syrian government forces and their Russian allies, coupled with a fierce ground assault on rebel-controlled Idlib province, have killed hundreds o...
PARIS (Reuters) — The United States plans to extend the lifespans of existing nuclear reactors and support new technologies as it seeks to revive an industry seen as crucial to its energy security,...
The U.S. government is growing the largest crop of research marijuana in five years, responding to interest in varieties with high levels of THC and CBD.
The government is the only source of pot fo...
SEOUL — Of the 156 cases of illegal exports of strategic goods that South Korea detected from 2015 to March this year, two-thirds were related to weapons of mass destruction, according to a list obt...
National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho passed away aged 49 in Guangzhou, China, on Sunday after battling stage 4 lung cancer for the past two years. His death wa...
Solar energy is among the keys in the administration of South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s push for renewable energy in response to concerns about life-threatening air pollution and demand for cle...
Three major streets in Dhaka are off-limits to rickshaws from Sunday with experts saying the “hasty” move without any alternative arrangements will likely trouble many commuters. The experts opine...
VALLETTA/MILAN (Reuters) — Migrants on board a German rescue ship refused entry into Italy will be taken to a Maltese port before being relocated to other European states, Malta’s prime minister ...
SEOUL (AP) — The son of the highest-profile South Korean ever to defect to North Korea has arrived in the North to permanently resettle, the country’s state media said. If confirmed, it would be ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) — Australian defense officials said on Monday they were tracking a Chinese surveillance ship that is expected to position itself just outside of its territorial waters to monitor m...
MANILA (Reuters) — Impunity and unlawful killings are going on unabated in the Philippines, three years into a war on drugs, with a pattern of executions under the guise of police sting operations ...
AGRA, India (AFP-Jiji) — At least 29 people were killed Monday after a bus careered off one of India’s busiest roads, which has become known as the “highway to hell” because of its poor safety...
CHICAGO (AP) — Nearly one-quarter of Americans say they never plan to retire, according to a poll that suggests a disconnection between individuals’ retirement plans and the realities of aging in...
ANCHORAGE (AP) — Princess Daazhraii Johnson grew up eating dried salmon and moose-head soup — foods labeled weird by other kids who had no understanding of her culture and traditions.
Now the Fa...
Cancer owes the majority of its total deaths to Asian countries, partly because of the region’s massive population, but possibly due to certain lifestyle choices, Taiwan health authorities said base...
KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK, India (AFP-Jiji) — The monsoon may bring respite from the scorching heat, but for the rangers and animals at Kaziranga National Park it also brings danger as poachers take a...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A quake with a magnitude of 7.1 jolted much of California, cracked buildings, set fires, broke roads and caused several injuries while seismologists warned that large aftershocks...
LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) — An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander threatened on Friday to seize a British ship in retaliation for the capture of an Iranian supertanker by Royal Marines in Gibralta...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Trump administration on Friday refused to back down over its bid to put a contentious citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. census, meaning a court case will move forward...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaskans who routinely pack knit caps and fleece jackets in summer on Friday were swapping them for sunscreen and parasols amid a prolonged heat wave.
Residents of Anchor...
SEOUL — U.S. President Donald Trump has told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that if Kim presents a proposal that is a little more advanced than what Kim put forward at their February meeting in Han...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Pope Francis for “very substantive” talks on Thursday, a day before Ukraine’s Catholic leaders were due at the Vatican. Puti...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated the story of America as “the greatest political journey in human history” in a Fourth of July commemoration before a soggy but cheering c...
GENEVA (AFP-Jiji) — Nearly 7,000 people have been killed during security operations in Venezuela in the past year and a half, the United Nations said Thursday, warning that many of the killings lik...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — MAD, the long-running satirical magazine that influenced everyone from “Weird Al” Yankovic to the writers of “The Simpsons,” will be leaving newsstands after its August...
LONDON (Reuters) — A brown quartzite head of young king Tutankhamen sold at auction in London for more than £4.7 million on Thursday, in the face of Egyptian demands for its return.
The more than...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. candidates running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Sunday criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest overture to North Korean leader Kim Jung Un...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Sea ice along northern Alaska disappeared far earlier than normal this spring, alarming coastal residents who rely on wildlife and fish.
Ice melted as a result of excepti...
TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will spend four nights in the United States this month while visiting Caribbean diplomatic allies, her government said on Monday, in a move likely t...
CARACAS (Reuters) — Venezuela’s defense ministry on Sunday confirmed the death of a military officer who opposition leaders and family members said was tortured in custody after his detention ove...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban said Sunday that the latest round of peace talks with the United States is “critical” as the two sides “rewrite” a draft agreement in which American forces woul...
JERUSALEM (AP) — American officials looked on Sunday as Israel opened a newfound Roman-era street at a divisive archaeological site in east Jerusalem, a move that deepened Palestinian animosity tow...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday pushed for greater grassroots water conservation efforts amid concerns weak monsoon rains would push millions of drought-hit peop...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — European Union leaders were locked in all-night negotiations over the bloc’s top jobs, but as day broke on Monday there was still no deal on who should lead its executive as p...
KABUL (AP) — A powerful bomb blast rocked the Afghan capital early Monday, rattling windows, sending smoke billowing from Kabul’s downtown area and wounding at least 65 people, including nine chi...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey said Sunday that six of its nationals were being held by a Libyan force and vowed to respond to any attacks on its vessels or interests. The Turkish Foreign Ministry said i...
KHARTOUM (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Sudan’s capital and elsewhere in the country Sunday calling for civilian rule nearly three months after the army forced out l...
MANILA (AFP-Jiji) — The Islamic State-claimed attack on a military base that killed seven in the restive southern Philippines bears the hallmarks of a suicide bombing, the military said Saturday. ...
BEIJING (Reuters) Chinese President Xi Jinping signed an order for a prisoner amnesty on Saturday, to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, though many excep...
HONG KONG (AP) — Opponents of a proposed extradition law plan a protest Monday as Hong Kong marks the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony’s handover to China, and police said they were ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tens of thousands of people turned out for gay pride celebrations around the world on Saturday, including a boisterous party in Mexico and the first pride march in North Macedoni...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A fresh round of talks between the United States and the Taliban began in Qatar on Saturday, just days after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington is hoping for an Af...
GENEVA (AFP-Jiji) — Swiss police fired water cannons, tear gas and stun grenades at Cameroonian protesters outside U.N. headquarters in Geneva Saturday as the crowd surged towards a luxury hotel ho...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday prohibited U.S. President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in Cal...
OSAKA — Leaders from the Group of 20 nations renewed their vow to take action to curb climate change Saturday, as the United States once again stood apart and at odds with the rest of the world. U.S...
Tomoya Ito, a gold medalist in a wheelchair race at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, is looking to get back into the game. The 55-year-old native of Mie Prefecture had previously retired due to a decli...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — An avowed white supremacist who deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing a young woman and injuring dozens, apologized to his victims Friday...
VIENNA (Reuters) — European countries offered too little at last-ditch talks on Friday to persuade Iran to back off from its plans to breach limits imposed by its nuclear agreement with world powers...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Adding a high-stakes immigration case to its election-year agenda, the Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether U.S. President Donald Trump can terminate an Obama-era prog...
PARIS/MADRID (Reuters) — France on Friday registered its highest temperature since recordkeeping began as the death toll rose from a heatwave suffocating much of Europe.
The mercury hit 45.9 C in...
OSAKA (AP) — Eyeing a history-making photo opportunity, U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday issued a Twitter invitation to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to join him for a hand shake during a visi...
OSAKA (AP) — A trade war between two economic titans faced a critical junction Saturday, as U.S. President Donald Trump met with China’s Xi Jinping as both sides signaled a desire to de-escalate ...
CAIRO (Reuters) — A U.S.-proposed $9 billion aid package could tempt Egypt with long-sought financing to transform its strife-torn Sinai Peninsula, but analysts say political risks are likely to ou...
Get ready to see another world from the eyes of a dragonfly — at least, a robotic one.
NASA said Thursday that it’s sending a drone called Dragonfly to explore Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Us...
MANILA (Reuters) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened opponents with prison if they try to impeach him, the latest in what a top U.N. official and an Asian lawmakers’ group this ...
GENOA, Italy (AP) — A spectacular planned explosion on Friday knocked down the remaining spans and supporting pillars of the Italian bridge that collapsed last year with the loss of 43 lives.
The...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Presidents and other world leaders and political figures who use Twitter to threaten or abuse others could find their tweets slapped with warning labels. The new policy, anno...
TUNIS (AP) — Twin suicide bombings targeting security forces struck Tunisia’s capital on Thursday, killing a patrol officer and injuring at least eight people.
Tunisia has been struck repeatedl...
PARIS (AP) — The United States does not want a full-blown war with Iran, although it still is seeking to build up international defenses in the region just in case of a conflict, President Donald Tr...
Ahead of the Group of 20 summit, The Yomiuri Shimbun interviewed British Prime Minister Theresa May through a written question format.
The Yomiuri Shimbun: Regarding the intensified global common...
Ahead of the Group of 20 summit, The Yomiuri Shimbun interviewed Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte through a written question format.
The Yomiuri Shimbun: The US and China will come under pre...
Local fisherman Huynh Tan Loc now earns his living mostly from home-stay and food services or night-fishing on a boat rather than regular fishing. Loc, 56, and his wife can earn 350,000 dong ($15) per...
Construction of the National Bank for Tropical Plant Germplasm Resources has been approved in Hainan by the central authorities as part of a national sharing service platform for science and technolog...
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s largest electric company installed massive batteries near neighborhoods with a large number of solar panels, hoping to capture some of the energy from the afternoon sun t...
The Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine Department has backtracked from its claim that its homeopathic formula is highly effective for dengue-fever protection. “It’s just a supplementary me...
HO CHI MINH CITY — Nguyen Van Dang, 61, of Ho Chi Minh City is getting treatment for nicotine dependence after dozens of years of smoking that led to serious health complications. The pack-a-day sm...
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN — In conjunction with World Turtle Day, 25 volunteers held a beach cleanup and bathing of sea turtles at the Marine Biodiversity Centre in Meragang recently. Spearheaded by Pon...
SINGAPORE — It has been widely characterized as trade tensions or a trade war, but the fight between the United States and China is not really about trade, said a former World Bank economist. The t...
More than 800,000 primary school students across the country will use new textbooks in September as part of the new national primary school curriculum that is being rolled out over the coming years. ...
On Friday, the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) will celebrate the heroism of mine detection dogs that help speed up the painstaking task and ease the difficulties faced by demining agents. CMAC D...
WASHINGTON/ISTANBUL (Reuters) — The United States on Friday raised the stakes in its standoff with Turkey over Ankara’s deal to acquire a Russian air defense system, laying out a plan to remove th...
TEHRAN (AFP-Jiji) — Iran said Saturday that new U.S. sanctions on its petrochemical industry show the hollowness of U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims to be open to fresh negotiations with Tehra...
KHARTOUM (AP) — Ethiopia’s prime minister urged “courage” as he met separately with Sudan’s ruling generals and protest leaders on Friday in a bid to revive negotiations amid a crackdown on...
CARACAS (AP) — Venezuelan leader Juan Guaido said Friday that the opposition’s demand for presidential elections is not negotiable, slowing mediation efforts by Norway aimed at resolving Venezuel...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City college student accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Times Square spent months trying to stockpile guns and grenades, heaped praise on the Islamic State group a...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — A Russian journalist known for investigating corruption among Moscow city officials has been detained by police and accused of drug offenses, police said on Friday, but his lawye...
The Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB) has come up with a draft strategy to address the issue of mass tourism, Foreign Minister Dr. Tandi Dorji said at a press conference last month. The minister, who i...
Party and state leaders and members of the public planted thousands of saplings on National Arbor Day on Saturday, giving a huge boost to the government’s effort to increase forest cover to 70 perce...
