January 29, 2020
DAVOS, Switzerland — On Jan. 24, the last day of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, a heated discussion over the use of plastic bottles and alternative materials took pla...
The commander of U.S. Forces in Japan, Lt. Gen. Kevin Schneider, described China’s military expansion as a strategy aimed at “rewriting or changing the international rules-based order” and stre...
The homes of Chinese and Vietnamese people are decorated with red paper hangings that bear New Year good wishes. These are placed on walls along with other customary adornments. The celebration of ...
Korea Ssireum Association held a tournament during the Lunar New Year holidays in Hongseong, South Chungcheong Province from Jan. 22 to Jan. 27, where the organizers expected more spectators than usua...
A 16-foot-long King Cobra stares at Rohit Giri. Just as it starts moving away from him, Giri grabs its tail with the help of a hook. The snake in return turns toward him and tries to attack. The snake...
Activities for the 15 districts and four thromdes are being planned. The Project Management Unit has adopted four strategies with an overall allotted budget of 2,671.96 million Bhutanese Ngultrum ($...
TAIPEI — The Taiwan presidential election ended on the night of Jan. 11, when Kaohsiung Mayor Han Kuo-yu of the Kuomintang party conceded with a phone call to congratulate Tsai Ing-wen of the Democr...
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (AP) — A massive fire that killed at least eight people and destroyed dozens of boats in an Alabama marina early Monday was spread so rapidly by the wind that “we didn’t have t...
DUBAI (AFP-Jiji) — Yemen’s Huthi rebels made gains against government troops north and east of Sanaa on Monday, seizing a strategic road in deadly fighting, loyalist military officials told AFP. ...
PONCE, Puerto Rico (AP) — Seismologists in southern Puerto Rico gingerly walked around a patch of dirt that marks the location of recently buried sensors they hope will reveal answers behind the con...
KABUL (AP) — An American military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the U.S. military said, adding that there were no indications so far it’d been brought down by enemy fire.
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ROME (Reuters) — Italy’s right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini failed to overturn decades of leftist rule in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna on Sunday in an election that brought relief t...
People who have trouble falling asleep may be at increased risk of developing cognitive problems or dementia than their counterparts who sleep well, a research review suggests. Researchers examined ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Britain’s Prince Andrew has provided “zero cooperation” to U.S. authorities probing sex trafficking allegedly carried out by deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein and co-c...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — NASA’s planet hunter satellite TESS has discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable range of its star, which could allow the presence of liquid water.
Another fir...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) — New Zealanders will go to the polls on Sept. 19 to decide on a second term for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and also to vote in referendums on the divisive issues of legali...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) — A new strain of virus spreading across China has claimed its first victim in Beijing, officials said on Tuesday, as the death toll climbed to 106, the United States warned citiz...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trump’s fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate came under renewed pressure on Monday to allow witnesses in his impeachment trial, while his defense team larg...
DUBAI (AP) — Iranian officials and satellite images suggest the Islamic Republic is preparing to launch a satellite into space after three major failures last year, the latest for a program which th...
MOSCOW/TOKYO (Reuters) — Russia said on Monday it expelled a Japanese journalist last month for trying to obtain secret information related to Russian military capabilities in the Russian Far East,...
PARIS (Reuters) — The French edition of the Michelin Guide, the bible of gastronomy, for the first time in its history awarded the highest rating of three stars to a Japanese-born chef.
The accol...
LONDON (AP) — With Brexit just days away, Britons are fighting over the chimes of Big Ben. And the White Cliffs of Dover are a battleground.
As the United Kingdom prepares to leave the European Un...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out in anger Saturday at an NPR reporter who accused him of shouting expletives at her after she asked him in an interview about Ukraine...
MELBOURNE (Reuters) — One in two Australians have donated money to support bushfire relief efforts, a new survey showed over the weekend, with meteorologists warning more hot and dry weather is to ...
LONDON (Reuters) — The heir to the British throne, Prince Charles, would like to make an official visit to Iran, he said in an interview with the Sunday Times newspaper. Charles, however, declined...
CALABASAS, Calif. (AP) — NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and seven others were killed in a helicopter crash on a steep hillside in dense morning fog in Southern California on Sunda...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Derek Tai was arrested outside Hong Kong’s Legislative Council building last June, early in the city’s anti-government protests, which have seen millions join demonstration...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) — Newly available data suggests that China is the world’s second-biggest arms producer, behind the United States and ahead of Russia, a leading conflict and armaments think-ta...
LIMA (AP) — A hodgepodge of mostly centrist parties led early results in Peru’s election Sunday to replace the 130-seat congress dissolved by President Martin Vizcarra in his campaign to extingui...
BEIJING (AP) — China on Monday expanded sweeping efforts to contain a viral disease by postponing the end of this week’s Lunar New Year holiday to keep the public at home and avoid spreading infe...
THE HAGUE (AFP-Jiji) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday made the Netherlands’ first government apology for the wartime persecution of Jews. “Now the last survivors are still with us, I...
KABUL (Reuters) — Afghan forces used ground attacks and airstrikes in multiple operations against the Taliban during the last 24 hours, killing 51 fighters in an escalation that signaled renewed de...
MILAN (AP) — Right-wing opposition leader Matteo Salvini’s attempt to destabilize Italy’s national government by forcing the left out of power in a key northern region appeared to founder Sunda...
FORT DODGE, Iowa (Reuters) — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden appear locked in a tight race for the Democratic presidential nomination, as both campaigned in Iowa on...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that it will now allow Israelis to travel to Saudi Arabia for religious or business visits. The announcement is the latest sign of quiet b...
BAGHDAD (AFP-Jiji) — Three rockets slammed into the U.S. Embassy in Iraq’s capital on Sunday in the first direct hit reported after months of close calls, as thousands of protesters kept up anti-...
KOCHI/LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) — Hundreds of thousands of Indians protested across the country on Sunday against a citizenship bill that many fear is discriminatory against the minority Muslim comm...
Data provided by the ministry’s Tourism Development Department show that tourist arrivals exceeded 4.7 million last year, an increase of 14.44% over 2018. The number of visitors from China increased...
BEIJING (Reuters) — The U.S. State Department said on Sunday it will evacuate personnel from its Wuhan consulate to the United States and will offer a limited number of seats to private U.S. citiz...
BEIJING (AP) — China’s leader on Saturday called the accelerating spread of a new virus a grave situation, as cities from the outbreak’s epicenter in central China to Hong Kong scrambled to cont...
Environment Minister Say Sam Al has urged everyone to participate in the sustainable preservation and conservation of natural resources so the Kingdom could earn carbon credits, which it could later s...
BANGKOK (Reuters) — Thailand opened its first full-time clinic specializing in traditional and alternative cannabis-based medicine, as part of a move by the government toward developing a medicinal ...
MUSCATINE, Iowa (Reuters) — The Des Moines Register newspaper endorsed Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the crowded race for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination late on Saturday,...
BEIJING (AP) — A new virus that started in China and is popping up around Asia and the world hung over the first day of the Year of the Rat.
Lunar New Year festivities were canceled across mainlan...
Launching the much-awaited electronic passport service, along with the automated border control management program, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said Wednesday that the e-passport was a gif...
DUBAI (AP) — Iran is not ruling out negotiations with the United States even after an American drone strike that killed a top Iranian general, the country’s foreign minister said in an interview ...
SEOUL (AP) — Four people were killed and five others were injured on Saturday in an explosion at a motel in eastern South Korea. The explosion occurred on the second floor of the motel where seve...
MADRID (AP) — Juan Guaido, the man who one year ago launched a bid to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, on Saturday paid a visit to Spain, where a thriving community of Venezuelans and a st...
HONG KONG (Bloomberg) — Hong Kong police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of protesters who gathered in the crowded shopping hub of Mong Kok on Saturday night at the site of a 2016 protest that ma...
BRUSSELS (AFP-Jiji) — European Union leaders meet next month in Brussels to try to agree a first post-Brexit longterm budget, with divisions over proposed cuts that could undermine defence and cli...
MANILA (AP) — Philippine authorities on Sunday lowered the alert level at Taal Volcano, two weeks after it began spewing ash, steam and rocks, a move that will allow many of the more than 376,000 d...
SEOUL (AP) — The aunt of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made her first public appearance in about six years, state media reported Sunday, quelling rumors that she was purged or executed by her neph...
BEIJING (AP) — China’s most festive holiday began in the shadow of a worrying new virus Saturday as the death toll surpassed 40, an unprecedented lockdown that kept people from traveling was expan...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to stand with anti-abortion activists Friday as he became the first sitting president to speak at the March for Life, an annual gathering that is ...
BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of Iraqis marched peacefully through Baghdad on Friday to demand the ouster of U.S. troops from their country in a protest organized by a populist Shiite cleric.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Democratic lawmakers concluded their opening arguments in Republican President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate on Friday with a warning that he was a th...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new poll shows Americans are more likely than not to support U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to order a drone strike that killed an Iranian general, even amid widesprea...
ANKARA (AP) — The death toll from a strong earthquake that rocked eastern Turkey climbed to 21 Saturday, with more than 1,000 people injured, emergency officials said.
Rescue workers were continui...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Federal Aviation Administrator Steve Dickson called senior U.S. airline officials on Friday and told them the agency could approve the grounded Boeing 737 MAX’s return to s...
DUBAI (AP) — Cybersecurity experts said Thursday there were still many unanswered questions from an investigation commissioned by Jeff Bezos that concluded the billionaire’s cellphone was hacked...
The new virus from China has the world on edge because it’s a close cousin to viruses that killed hundreds in separate outbreaks. While it’s too early to tell if this latest threat will prove as ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Teresa Zhan, a pharmacist in Manhattan’s Chinatown, had not seen protective face masks sell out in her 10 years as an employee until last week, when China’s coronavirus arr...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon disclosed on Friday that 34 U.S. service members suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iran’s missile strike this month on an Iraqi airbase, and although half have r...
CHICAGO/LONDON (Reuters) — When a newly organized vaccine research group at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) met for the first time last week, its members had expected to be able to eas...
DAVOS, Switzerland – On Jan. 21, after U.S. President Donald Trump ended his speech at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, one of the reporters surrounding him asked i...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Democrats worked methodically at U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Thursday to dismantle his long-standing allegation that Democratic presidential contender...
FRONTERA HIDALGO, Mexico (Reuters) — Mexican authorities on Thursday adopted tougher measures against Central American migrants, detaining 800 of them who had entered Mexico illegally from Guatemal...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration rolled out a new rule on Thursday that aims to limit “birth tourism” by women who enter the United States on tourist visas ...
Twenty U.S. states sued the Trump administration on Thursday to block what they called its latest effort to allow blueprints for making guns from 3-D printers to be released on the internet, threateni...
MANILA (AP) — The Philippine president has renewed a threat to terminate an accord that allows American forces to train in the country unless Washington restored a visa of a political ally linked t...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s delayed and disputed Brexit bill became law on Thursday, removing the last U.K. obstacle to the country leaving the European Union in just over a week. The U.K. is final...
THE HAGUE/COX’S BAZAAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) — The International Court of Justice on Thursday ordered Myanmar to take urgent measures to protect its Rohingya population from genocide, a ruling che...
BEIJING (Reuters) — Walt Disney Co.’s Shanghai Disney Resort will be closed from Saturday to help prevent the spread of a flu-like virus that broke out in the Chinese city Wuhan, the theme park o...
BEIJING (AP) — As a viral outbreak spread from the central Chinese city of Wuhan this week, the ruling Communist Party’s central political and legal affairs commission issued a stern warning: “W...
China’s happiest city isn’t so happy these days. Wuhan, which branded itself as a Chinese version of Phoenix, is now the epicenter of a SARS-like virus that has sickened hundreds. It’s worth ask...
LONDON (Reuters) — In Davos on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump pledged the United States to a major global project to plant a trillion trees worldwide in the next decade. In almost any previous...
PARIS (Reuters) — French prosecutors investigating a party that former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn threw for his wife at the sumptuous Palace of Versailles will in the next few weeks ask judge...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The keepers of the Doomsday Clock on Thursday moved the symbolic countdown to global disaster to the closest point to midnight in its 73-year history, citing “existential danger...
BEIJING (AP) — China broadened its unprecedented, open-ended lockdowns to encompass around 25 million people Friday to try to contain a deadly new virus that has sickened hundreds, though the measur...
The World Economic Forum’s 50th annual meeting has started in Davos in eastern Switzerland. More commonly known as the Davos conference, this gathering brings together prominent business leaders, h...
DAVOS, Switzerland/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he did not consider the brain injuries suffered by 11 U.S. service members in Iran’s recent attack on a base...
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein went on trial Wednesday in a landmark moment for the #MeToo movement, with prosecutors painting him as a sexual predator who used his Hollywood clout to abuse women...
SEOUL (AP) — South Korea’s first known transgender soldier pleaded to be allowed to continue serving after the military decided Wednesday to discharge her for undergoing gender reassignment surge...
SYDNEY (AP) — Three Americans died Thursday when a C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker crashed while battling wildfires in the Snowy Monaro region of Australia’s southern New South Wales state, of...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s new government made up of appointees nominated by the Shiite group Hezbollah and its allies got down to business Wednesday, a day after it was formed. Questions arose immed...
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) — Britain’s Prince Charles said on Wednesday that global warming and climate change are the greatest threats humanity has faced, calling on business leaders in Davos t...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Brexit bill passed its final hurdle in Parliament on Wednesday after the House of Lords abandoned attempts to amend it, leaving Britain on course to leave the European Uni...
BEIJING (Reuters) — China is putting on lockdown a city of 11 million people considered the epicenter of the new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 and infected nearly 600 people, as health aut...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Venezuela’s opposition leader said Wednesday that he wants the European Union to broaden sanctions against members of the Venezuelan government as a way to push toward free presid...
Seventy-five years after the killing stopped at Auschwitz, the survivors still bear witness, and many observe the rising hatred and anti-Semitism in the world today with a sense of deep disquiet. Ah...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is coming out Thursday with new visa restrictions aimed at restricting “birth tourism,” in which women travel to the United States to give birth so th...
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.N. experts have demanded an immediate investigation by U.S. and other authorities into allegations that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince was involved in a plot t...
GENEVA (AFP-Jiji) — Pyongyang on Tuesday warned that it could seek a “new path” and accelerate its weapons program, after Washington imposed fresh sanctions on North Korean companies amid stall...
MIAMI (AP) — The National Weather Service routinely warns people about falling rain, snow and hail, but temperatures are dropping so low in South Florida the forecasters warned residents Tuesday ab...
VANCOUVER (Reuters) — Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou returned to a Vancouver court on Tuesday, where her lawyers argued for a second straight day that Meng violated no Canadian laws an...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Trump administration is planning to add seven countries — Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania — to its travel ban list, U.S. media repo...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Hillary Clinton criticized the campaign of her former Democratic presidential rival Bernie Sanders in a new documentary in which she says he was an ineffective U.S. senator w...
YANGON (Reuters) — In a muddy field in western Myanmar, hundreds of Chinese shipping containers fitted with single narrow windows stand in neat lines, empty of the refugees they were designed to hos...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — A new virus that has killed nine people, infected hundreds and already reached the United States could mutate and spread, China warned Wednesday, as authorities scrambled to co...
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) — The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) kicked off on Tuesday in the ski town of Davos.
Greta Thunberg and U.S. President Donald Trump dominated as they...
About 650,000 Vietnamese people were working in more than 40 countries and territories worldwide, according to statistics from the Department of Overseas Labour under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids ...
TAIPEI (AFP-Jiji) — Taiwan should not be blocked from international bodies such as the World Health Organization, its president said Wednesday, a day after the island confirmed its first case of a ...
She had to leave her home in Laos and travel thousands of miles to the United States when she was just eight years old, so her knowledge of the war that had engulfed Laos many years before was practic...
AMMAN (Reuters) — Russian-led air-strikes killed at least 40 people on Tuesday in northwest Syria in a major army assault backed by Iranian militias to clear out rebels that has sent tens of thousa...
DUBAI (Reuters) — An Iranian lawmaker offered a $3 million reward to anyone who killed U.S. President Donald Trump and said Iran could avoid threats if it had nuclear arms, ISNA news agency reporte...
VICTORIA, Canada (AFP-Jiji) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan started their new life in Canada on Tuesday by launching a legal warning to media over photographs of the duchess near their seaside b...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — British rocker Ozzy Osbourne, who last year postponed a world tour due to health issues, disclosed in an interview broadcast on Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with Parki...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — Republicans and Democrats battled over summoning high-level White House witnesses Tuesday in a marathon first day of arguments in U.S. President Donald Trump’s trial for a...
MOSCOW (AFP-Jiji) — Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed a new government on Tuesday, less than a week after he announced sweeping constitutional reforms and his longtime prime minister resign...
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds of Central American migrants who entered southern Mexico in recent days have either been pushed back into Guatemala by Mexican troops, shipped to detention cen...
SEATTLE (AP) — The United States on Tuesday reported its first case of a new and potentially deadly virus circulating in China, saying a Washington state resident who returned last week from the ou...
DAVOS, Switzerland — The state minister of culture and sports promoted the government-hosted Japan Cultural Expo (Nihonhaku) at the World Economic Forum annual meeting being held at the Swiss resort...
BEIRUT (AP) — A new Cabinet was announced in crisis-hit Lebanon late Tuesday, breaking a months-long impasse amid mass protests against the country’s ruling elite and a crippling financial crisis,...
BEIJING (AP) — China has sentenced the former president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, to 13 years and six months in prison on charges of accepting more than $2 million in bribes. Meng was elected pre...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — Infants in Colombia who were exposed to the Zika virus in the womb showed motor and cognitive development delays in their first 18 months of life, despite having a normal hea...
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday acquitted the country’s third-biggest political party of seeking the overthrow of the constitutional monarchy in another legal case tha...
LONDON (Reuters) — A new type of therapy using faeces and fake rubber hands may be able to help patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) overcome their fears of touching contaminated surfac...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Greenland’s medieval Norse society vanished from the Earth in the 15th Century after they hunted walrus populations to near extinction, researchers said on Jan. 6 in a possible ...
YANGON (Reuters) — A government-appointed panel established in Myanmar to probe allegations of abuses in Rakhine State in 2017 that drew global outrage said Monday they had found no evidence of gen...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — An AI computer model can diagnose and identify 10 of the most common types of brain cancer with the same accuracy as human doctors, researchers said on Jan. 6. More than 15 mill...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Prince Harry touted the United Kingdom as an ideal business partner for Africa on Monday as their country prepares for post-Brexit dealings wi...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers have discovered a titanic wave of star-forming gases practically right under our noses in the Milky Way.
Harvard University scientists reported on Jan. 7 tha...
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea’s military said Tuesday it plans to expand the deployment of an anti-piracy unit now operating off the coast of Africa to the area around the Strait of Hormuz, after...
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) — Hundreds of Central American migrants waded across the Suchiate River into southern Mexico on Monday in a new test of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Central America s...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — An outbreak of a mysterious virus has not deterred millions of people in China from packing into crowded trains as they head home for the Lunar New Year — but some are donning...
VANCOUVER (AP) — The first stage of an extradition hearing for a senior executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei started in a Vancouver courtroom Monday, a case that has infuriated Beijing, caused a ...
BEIJING (Reuters) — China confirmed 291 cases of patients infected with the new coronavirus as of Jan. 20, state media reported Tuesday. There are now 270 confirmed cases in Hubei province, home ...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Tens of thousands of gun-rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on Monday to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership t...
OSLO (AFP-Jiji) — Norway’s populist Progress Party said Monday it was leaving the right-wing coalition government over the repatriation of a suspected Islamic State member and her two children las...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday submitted to parliament a package of constitutional amendments widely seen as an attempt to secure his grip on power well after his current t...
PANAMA CITY (AP) — Forensic workers took preliminary steps Monday for digging up the remains of some victims of the 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama, an effort that has lifted the hopes of Panamanians ...
BEIJING (AP) — A fourth person has died in an outbreak of a new coronavirus in China, authorities said Tuesday, as more places stepped up medical screening of travelers from the country as it enter...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran said Monday it could quit the global nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) if European countries refer it to the U.N. Security Council over a nuclear agreement, a move that w...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — Intelligence services have identified the new leader of the Islamic State group as Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi, British newspaper The Guardian reported Monday. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday rejected the Democratic-led House of Representatives’ impeachment charges and called for their immediate dismissal by the Republican-le...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The New York Times has endorsed not one but two candidates for the Democratic nomination for president, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar from the party’s moderate wing and Massachus...
BEIJING (AP) — The head of a Chinese government expert team said Monday that human-to-human transmission has been confirmed in an outbreak of a new coronavirus, a development that raises the possib...
DUBAI (AFP-Jiji) — More than 100 people were killed and dozens wounded in a missile and drone attack blamed on Huthi rebels in central Yemen, officials said Sunday. Saturday’s strike follows mont...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — An award-winning investigative team published a trove of files Sunday allegedly showing how Africa’s richest woman syphoned hundreds of millions of dollars of public money into...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran said on Sunday it was trying to analyse the black boxes of a Ukrainian airliner that its military shot down this month, denying a report that a decision had been taken to send...
ASUNCION (Reuters) — At least 75 inmates, including members of Brazil’s most powerful gang, escaped from a Paraguayan prison on Sunday after digging a tunnel in an operation that prison officials ...
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) — Former Bolivian leader Evo Morales announced from Argentina on Sunday the candidates for his socialist party in Bolivia’s May 3 elections, which will serve as a rerun of t...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Over 1,000 people marched through Moscow on Sunday in an event that a Kremlin critic tried to turn into a protest against a constitutional shake-up by Russian President Vladimir P...
BEIJING (AP) — China reported Monday a sharp rise in the number of people infected with a new coronavirus, including the first cases in the capital. The outbreak coincides with the country’s busi...
SYDNEY (AFP-Jiji) — Prolonged drought and other effects of climate change are pushing Australia’s unique platypus population toward extinction, scientists warned in a study published Monday. The...
NAIROBI (Reuters) — The world’s richest 2,153 people controlled more money than the poorest 4.6 billion combined in 2019, while unpaid or underpaid work by women and girls adds three times more t...
BERLIN (Reuters) — Foreign powers agreed at a summit in Berlin on Sunday to shore up a shaky truce in Libya, but the meeting was overshadowed by blockades of oilfields by forces loyal to commander ...
LONDON (Reuters) — Britain’s Prince Harry spoke on Sunday of his sadness at being forced to give up his royal duties in a deal with Queen Elizabeth and senior Windsors that will see him and his w...
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — Adolfo Cardenas smiles faintly at the memory of traveling with his 14-year-old son from Honduras to the U.S.-Mexico border in only nine days, riding buses and paying a smuggler $6...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — French prosecutors said Sunday they had opened an inquiry after a riot police officer was caught on camera punching a protester at a demonstration in Paris, footage that went vira...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) — Elon Musk’s SpaceX simulated a successful emergency landing on Sunday in a dramatic test of a crucial abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, a big step in ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping have established themselves as the world’s most powerful authoritarian leaders in decades. Now it looks like they want to hang on t...
BERLIN (Reuters) — Libyan rival camps and their foreign backers will attend a summit in Berlin on Sunday to discuss ways to end a proxy war over the capital Tripoli and the oil producer, which has d...
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho has been replaced, Seoul-based NK News reported on Saturday. The usually well-informed outlet, citing multiple unnamed sources in Pyongy...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — The announcement Saturday that Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are to give up their titles and stop receiving public funds is only the latest instalment in a royal soap opera th...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands gathered in cities across the country Saturday as part of the nationwide Women’s March rallies focused on issues such as climate change, pay equity, reproductive right...
YANGON (Reuters) — Facebook Inc. on Saturday blamed a technical error for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s name appearing as “Mr S---hole” in posts on its platform when translated into English from...
CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities closed a border entry point in southern Mexico on Saturday after thousands of Central American migrants tried to push their way across a bridge spa...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — China reported 17 new cases of the mysterious SARS-like virus on Sunday, including three in a severe condition, heightening fears ahead of China’s Lunar New Year holiday when ...
LONDON (Reuters) — Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will no longer be working members of Britain’s monarchy and they will pay their own way in life as they embark on an independent future, Buckin...
TEHRAN (AP) — Iran will send the black box flight recorders from the Ukrainian jetliner that it accidentally shot down to Ukraine for further analysis, an Iranian official said Saturday. Hassan R...
BEIRUT (AP) — Police fired volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets in Lebanon’s capital Saturday to disperse thousands of protesters amid some of the worst rioting since demonstrations against the ...
PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump gave a minute-to-minute account of the U.S. drone strikes that killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in remarks to a Republican ...
On Jan. 1, a joint team from the Makwanpur District Police Office and the Narcotics Control Bureau traveled to Raksirang Rural Municipality armed with sickles and petroleum products. They had received...
Soju is going “newtro.” With the trend — a combination of “new” and “retro” — sweeping the South Korean retail scene, liquor makers have brought back new versions of discontinued soju....
Henley Passport Index, which ranks all of the world’s passports according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa, has listed the Sri Lankan passport as the fourt...
Mika Shuto, 54, loves her job as a Japanese language teacher for many reasons. It is a job she graduated and mastered in. It has provided her opportunities to teach her mother language to many foreign...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran’s supreme leader threw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guards in a rare sermon on Friday after their belated admission that they had accidentally downed an airlin...
BEIJING (Reuters) — Chinese health authorities said on Saturday they had discovered four more cases of pneumonia following an outbreak of what is believed to be a new coronavirus strain in the cent...
TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday his government will give 25,000 Canadian dollars (U.S.$19,122) to the families of each of the 57 citizens and 29 permanent resident...
SEOUL (Reuters) — The U.S. ambassador to South Korea drew criticism from the highest levels of government in Seoul on Friday for suggesting that Seoul consult with Washington about the possibility o...
MOSCOW (AFP-Jiji) — With the shock replacement of his government and plans for a constitutional overhaul, President Vladimir Putin has set in motion sweeping changes to Russia’s political order.
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MOSCOW (Bloomberg) — Vladimir Putin is putting his trust in an obscure technocrat with little political experience to be prime minister and revive Russia’s flagging economy, as he prepares the co...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — As London’s police try to manage a rise in non-violent street protests aimed at spurring action to tackle climate change, they face a quandary, human rights e...
BRASILIA (Reuters) — Brazil’s Culture Secretary Roberto Alvim was sacked Friday after posting a video in which he appeared to copy a speech by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels.
The video, r...
NAYPYIDAW (Reuters) — China and Myanmar inked dozens of deals on Saturday to speed up infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation, as Beijing seeks to cement its hold over a neighbor incre...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — As the 2020 race heats up, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a dispute involving the complex U.S. presidential election system focusing on whether Electoral College...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s foreign policy chief on Friday blamed what he described as “aggressive” U.S. policies for growing global tensions, noting Washington’s reluctance to extend a key nucl...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump turned to some legal heavyweights to help defend him in his Senate impeachment trial with the addition Friday of former independent counsel Ken Sta...
SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — Washington has compromised in its demands that South Korea should pay billions of dollars towards U.S. troop presence and it was Seoul’s turn to reciprocate, the American ambass...
BEIRUT (AFP-Jiji) — Dozens of fighters and civilians were killed in Syria’s Idlib province as the government pressed a deadly offensive Thursday towards a key town in the country’s last rebel ba...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — The Russian parliament overwhelmingly backed President Vladimir Putin’s surprise choice for prime minister on Thursday after what one daily called a “January revolution,” a...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Few people on the streets of Moscow on Thursday had heard of Mikhail Mishustin, the former Federal Tax Service chief plucked from relative obscurity by President Vladimir Putin t...
There are voices lamenting division all over the world — division in Europe and America where populism prevails; in Hong Kong and the Arab world where protests continue; between rich and poor. Japan...
BERLIN (Reuters) — A Libyan military commander waging an offensive to capture the capital Tripoli is committed to a ceasefire, Germany said on Thursday, in an apparent advance for efforts to end a ...
TEHRAN (AP) — Iran’s supreme leader said U.S. President Donald Trump is a “clown” who only pretends to support the Iranian people, as he addressed Friday prayers in Tehran for the first time s...
BUDAPEST (AFP-Jiji) — Hungary unveiled a climate change strategy Thursday that has been described by Prime Minister Viktor Orban as a “Christian democratic” approach to tackling global warming. ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) — The United Nations World Food Program said on Thursday that a record 45 million people in the 16-nation Southern African Development Community faced growing hunger followin...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) — A surge in drug-linked gang-violence in Sweden led to a 60% increase in bomb blasts in 2019, government statistics showed on Thursday, as police work to rid the streets of exp...
TOMALI, Malawi (AP) — A pinch in the leg, a squeal and a trickle of tears. One baby after another in Malawi is getting the first and only vaccine against malaria, one of history’s deadliest and m...
KIEV (AP) — Police in Ukraine are investigating whether the U.S. ambassador came under illegal surveillance by an unknown party before the Trump administration recalled her from Kiev, Ukrainian auth...
MONTREAL/KUALA LUMPUR/PARIS (Reuters) — Why was the Ukrainian airliner mistakenly shot down near Tehran by Iranian forces last week for the loss of 176 lives even allowed to take off from a country ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has been steadily climbing in popularity this year and is now tied with former Vice President Joe Biden for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination...
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) — From Huawei to the South China Sea, deep political rifts between Beijing and Washington are set to persist, despite a trade relations breakthrough, as the United Stat...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate opened the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump with quiet ceremony Thursday — senators standing at their desks to swear an oath of “impartial jus...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — A new virus from the same family as the deadly SARS pathogen could have been spread between family members in the Chinese city of Wuhan, local authorities said Wednesday. The ...
LONDON — As the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division departed for the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran, their divisional commander gave a simple order. All personnel ...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — New video footage has emerged showing two Iranian missiles tearing through the night sky and hitting a Ukrainian passenger plane, sending the aircraft down in flames and kill...
BANGKOK (Reuters) — Thai health officials are stepping up monitoring and inspection at its airports for the new mystery virus from China ahead of Lunar New Year, when Chinese visitors flock to the ...
BEIJING (AP) — China has blasted a report from Human Rights Watch that accused it of constructing a surveillance state at home while seeking to silence critics abroad.
Foreign ministry spokesman ...
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese official said Wednesday that Beijing will not change its policy of annexing Taiwan through its “one country, two systems” framework, despite the heavy turnout in favor ...
BERLIN (AFP-Jiji) — Environmental groups announced Wednesday they had filed lawsuits at Germany’s highest court accusing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government of failing to protect basic rights ...
GUATEMALA CITY/TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) — Guatemala’s new president on Wednesday faced an early test of his ability to manage migration as a caravan of hundreds of people departed Honduras for the U...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — As U.S. President Donald Trump rallied supporters Tuesday night by defending his decision to kill a top Iranian general, the Democrats vying to replace him used their final debate b...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has tapped an Italian lawyer to be the first woman to hold a management position in the Vatican’s most important office, the Secretariat of State.
Francis on Wed...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday. And scientists sai...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Researchers say they have successfully created another embryo of the nearly extinct northern white rhino in a global effort to keep the species alive. Just two animals remain, a...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russian President Vladimir Putin announced measures on Wednesday to boost Russia’s birth rate, describing them as vital to the country’s future though they are projected to c...
THE HAGUE (AP) — The United Nations’ top court announced Wednesday that it will issue a decision next week on a request to order Myanmar to halt what has been cast as a genocidal campaign against...
PARIS (Reuters) — French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he had previously spoken to Japan’s prime minister about the conditions former Nissan-Renault boss Carlos Ghosn was being held...
SEOUL (Reuters) — An Australian student who was briefly detained in North Korea last year over spy charges said he had been kidnapped by secret police and forced to make a false confession, accordi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Trump administration has threatened to impose a 25% tariff on European automobile imports if Britain, France and Germany do not formally accuse Iran of breaking the 2015 n...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — United Nations sanctions experts are warning people not to attend a cryptocurrency conference in North Korea in February, flagging it as a likely sanctions violation, acc...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a dramatic procession across the U.S. Capitol, House Democrats carried the formal articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate late Wednesday, setting ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a constitutional overhaul Wednesday to boost the powers of parliament and the Cabinet, a move signalling Putin’s intention to carve out a n...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on two North Korean entities that it said are involved in sending North Koreans to work abroad in violation of United Nations s...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran said on Tuesday it had arrested people accused of a role in shooting down a Ukrainian airliner and had also detained 30 people involved in protests that have swept the nation...
TAGAYTAY, Philippines (AP) — A volcano near the Philippine capital spewed lava into the sky and trembled constantly Tuesday, possibly portending a bigger and more dangerous eruption, as tens of tho...
GENEV (Reuters) — There may have been limited human-to-human transmission of a new coronavirus in China within families, and it is possible there could be a wider outbreak, the World Health Organiz...
Streaming video service Netflix Inc. will have another chance to snatch the movie industry’s top prize from Hollywood’s traditional film studios at next month’s Academy Awards.
Two Netflix mo...
BOSTON (AP) — A U.S. cybersecurity company says Russian military agents have successfully hacked the Ukrainian gas company at the center of the scandal that led to President Donald Trump’s impeac...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Republican members of the U.S Senate, poised to begin an impeachment trial against U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming days, voiced opposition on Monday to any attempt ...
SANDRINGHAM, England (Reuters) — Queen Elizabeth has reluctantly agreed to her grandson Prince Harry and his wife Meghan’s wish for a more independent future after the British royal family held cr...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump fueled controversy on Monday over his decision to kill Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani by saying “it doesn’t really matter” whether Solei...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Saudi Arabia will withdraw 21 cadets receiving military training in the United States following a U.S. investigation into a Saudi officer’s fatal shooting of three American...
PAU, France (AP) — French and West African heads of state vowed to boost their military efforts under a joint command in Africa’s Sahel region, which has seen a surge of deadly violence. They als...
MADRID (AP) — Spain’s first coalition government in the four decades since the return of democracy took shape Monday as 22 Cabinet ministers took their oaths of office.
Questions though remaine...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Protesters took to the streets of Iran to denounce the country’s clerical rulers and riot police deployed to face them in a third day of demonstrations on Monday after authoriti...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved the formation of a committee to consider Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for legal immunity, a major setback for the embattled le...
MOSCOW/BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) — Libya’s warring leaders made some progress at indirect peace talks in Moscow on Monday but failed to agree on an open-ended ceasefire to end a nine-month war ov...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo alleged Monday that Iraqi leaders have told him privately they support the U.S. troop presence, despite public appeals for them to leave....
BANGKOK (AP) — A Chinese visitor to Thailand has been confirmed to be infected with a new strain of coronavirus that has been linked to a pneumonia outbreak in central China, health officials said ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on seven Venezuelan politicians it said led a bid by President Nicolas Maduro to wrest control of the country’s congress from ...
LAHORE (AP) — A Pakistani court on Monday overturned the death sentence given to the country’s former military ruler, Pervez Musharraf, a former close U.S. ally in the war against terror.
The L...
HARARE (AFP-Jiji) — Chinese Foreign minister Wang Yi on Monday wrapped up a five-nation Africa tour after talks in Zimbabwe in which he pledged to strengthen cooperation despite a spat over aid fig...
What was going on at Nissan for the last two decades?
With all his complaints about Nissan subordinates and the “depth of deprivation” he endured at the hands of the Japanese justice system, Carl...
A huge plaza, covered almost entirely by a glass roof and capable of holding 2,000 people, will open around the base of the Shinjuku Sumitomo Building, a skyscraper in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, on June 1...
DUBAI (Reu-ters) — Iranian protesters and newspapers piled pressure on the country’s leadership and riot police stepped up their presence in Tehran on Sunday after Iran’s military admitted that ...
TAIPEI (AP) — Tsai Ing-wen was reelected as Taiwan’s president by a landslide Saturday in a victory that signaled strong support for her tough stance against China among voters determined to defe...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo congratulated Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen on her election on Saturday and lauded her for seeking stability with China “in the face o...
TAIPEI (AP) — Tsai Ing-wen was reelected as Taiwan’s president by a landslide Saturday in a victory that signaled strong support for her tough stance against China among voters determined to defe...
TAIPEI (AP) — Early results from Taiwanese television networks and the Election Commission showed President Tsai Ing-wen leading her closest challenger, Han Kuo-yu of the Nationalist Party, in Sat...
TEHRAN (AP) — Iran announced Saturday that its military “unintentionally” shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed last week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly den...
Australia’s bushfires have given officials plenty of cover to do what they should be doing anyway: ramp up fiscal spending. A lot hinges on whether they can get comfortable with the idea.
An area ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — West Virginia reported unusual cyber activity targeting its election systems. The Texas governor said the state was encountering attempted “attacks” at the rate of “10,000 ti...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — The Pentagon accused the Russian Navy on Friday of aggressive actions in the Arabian Sea after one of its ships very nearly collided with a U.S. Navy destroyer.
The Russia...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronted by persistent questions about his military action in the Middle East, U.S. President Donald Trump and his top officials offered a string of fresh explanations Friday, w...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) — A 61-year-old man has died from pneumonia in the central Chinese city of Wuhan after an outbreak of a yet-to-be-identified virus while seven others are in critical condition, t...
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korea has received birthday greetings to its leader Kim Jong Un from U.S. President Donald Trump, but their personal relationship is not enough for a return to talks, accord...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Army plans to deploy two specialized task forces to the Pacific capable of conducting information, electronic, cyber and missile operations against Beijing, a Pentag...
BAGHDAD (AP) — For months, Iraqis have watched with deepening anxiety as tensions between Iran-backed militias and U.S. forces soared, fearing their long-beleaguered country would turn into a battl...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — Prince Harry and wife, Meghan, say their retreat from the royal family will give them “financial independence” — but they will retain many benefits while being free to cap...
TAIPEI (AP) — Further deadlock and heightened pressure from China is the likely outcome if Taiwan’s independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen wins a second term this weekend, as is widely predi...
EDEN, Australia (AP) — Thousands of people fled their homes and helicopters dropped supplies to towns at risk of nearby wildfires as hot, windy conditions Friday threatened already fire-ravaged sou...
TEHRAN (AP) — Iranian newspapers proclaimed the country’s attack on U.S. forces in Iraq to be “a dark night for Americans,” and Washington’s “first admission of failure in history.” On ...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — The British monarchy scrambled Thursday to find urgent “workable solutions” for Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, after their bombshell decision to quit front-line duties c...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a dramatic rollback of environmental oversight, U.S. President Donald Trump took action Thursday to clear the way and speed up development of a wide range of commercial project...
For months now, Venezuelan politics has been trapped in toxic stalemate. Two men claim the same job — congressionally-appointed interim president Juan Guaido, with all the street cred, and de facto ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) — The window is closing on the chance to avert a pension meltdown that will slash the retirement benefits of more than a million U.S. workers.
Lawmakers in Washington have been wo...
TRIPOLI (AFP-Jiji) — Europe and North Africa have launched a diplomatic offensive to try to prevent Libya, with the increased involvement of international players in its conflict, from turning into...
WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) — The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Thursday to stop President Donald Trump from further military action against Iran as the Middle East remained tense after t...
MADRID (Reuters) — Spain’s Supreme Court said on Thursday it had told the European Parliament that Catalan separatist leader Oriol Junqueras will not be released from prison to claim his seat as ...
SRINAGAR/NEW DELHI (Reuters) — Foreign diplomats visited India-ruled Kashmir on Thursday for the first time since New Delhi stripped the region of special status in August, but some European nation...
SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — A former prosecutor who was tried following groping allegations that fueled South Korea’s #MeToo movement walked free on Thursday after his conviction was quashed by the countr...
BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s Vice Premier Liu He, head of the country’s negotiation team in Sino-U.S. trade talks, will sign a “Phase 1” deal in Washington next week, the commerce ministry s...
JAKARTA/LONDON (Reuters) — As Indonesia celebrated its National Heroes’ Day last year, official military social media accounts lavished praise on Corporal Yunanto Nugroho for the “myriad awards ...
WASHINGTON/MONTREAL (Reuters) — Several major airlines said on Wednesday they were rerouting flights to avoid airspace over Iraq and Iran after the Federal Aviation Administration banned U.S. carri...
After a U.S. drone strike killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani last week, America braced itself for the unexpected: The Department of Homeland Security issued an advisory warning that Iran may launch...
TEHRAN (AP) — Iran struck back at the United States early Wednesday for killing a top Revolutionary Guards commander, firing a series of ballistic missiles at two military bases in Iraq housing Amer...
DUBAI/KIEV (Reuters) — A Ukrainian airliner crashed soon after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport on Wednesday, killing all 176 people aboard, Iran’s state television and Ukraine’...
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — At least 56 people were killed in a stampede in Iran on Tuesday as tens of thousands of mourners packed streets for the funeral of an Iranian military commander whose...
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States has no plans to pull its troops out of Iraq, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Monday, following reports by Reuters and other media of an Am...
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping lauded Kiribati on Monday for “standing on the right side of history” during his first meeting with the Pacific island nation’s leader since it sev...
BUSHEKELI, Rwanda (AP) — It was something, the silence. Nothing but the puff of her breath and the scuff of her slip-on shoes as Madeleine Mukantagara walked through the fields to her first patient ...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran announced on Sunday it would abandon limitations on enriching uranium, taking a further step back from commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers, but it would c...
CHICAGO/DIMMITT, Texas (Reuters) — Across snow-covered North Dakota, U.S. farmers are stuck with fields full of weather-damaged corn — a crop they planted after the U.S.-China trade war killed th...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran announced on Sunday it would abandon limitations on enriching uranium, taking a further step back from commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal with six major powers, but it would ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday the United States has targeted 52 Iranian sites that it would strike if Iran attacks Americans or U.S. assets in response to a U....
DUBAI (Reuters) — The body of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in Iraq in a U.S. military strike, was returned to Iran on Sunday and driven through thousands of mourners,...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — The United States-led military coalition fighting Islamic State said early on Sunday that there were two attacks near Iraqi bases housing its troops on Saturday night but that n...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) — China has replaced the head of its Hong Kong Liaison Office, the most senior mainland political official based in the Chinese-controlled territory, following more than six mon...
LONDON (Reuters) — As a new decade begins, the first century of the new millennium will already be a fifth over. The last 10 years have seen the world’s most powerful states increasingly at logger...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A tragic airline crash with far-reaching consequences, cataclysmic cyclones that may be a harbinger of the future, the death of an African icon and a new leader who won the Nobel...
BEIRUT (AFP-Jiji) — Former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, who skipped bail in Japan and fled to Beirut, is due to be summoned by Lebanon’s public prosecutor this week, an official said Friday....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States is sending nearly 3,000 additional troops to the Middle East from the 82nd Airborne Division as a precaution amid rising threats to American forces in the r...
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Iran promised vengeance after a U.S. air strike in Baghdad on Friday killed Qassem Soleimani, Tehran’s most prominent military commander and the architect of its gro...
SEOUL (Reuters) — If North Korea returns to long-range missile launches or other weapons tests in 2020, its military could make valuable technical advances and gain experience alongside whatever pol...
In mid-October, Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani met with his Iraqi Shiite militia allies at a villa on the banks of the Tigris River, looking across at the U.S. Embassy complex in Baghdad.
The R...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. security services had tracked Iran’s top military commander Qassem Soleimani for years and on multiple occasions considered taking him out, current and former U.S. off...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel’s prime minister defended a U.S. decision to launch an airstrike on Friday that killed powerful Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani and the Israeli military was put on...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. administration of President Donald Trump took measures on Friday to crimp exports of artificial intelligence software as part of a bid to keep sensitive technologies...
SYDNEY (AP) — Australia’s prime minister called up about 3,000 reservists as the threat of wildfires escalated Saturday in at least three states with two more deaths, and strong winds and high te...
WARSAW (AFP-Jiji) — A record 500-plus young pianists, nearly half from Asia, applied to take part in the 2020 edition of Poland’s prestigious Chopin competition, its organizers said Thursday. Wi...
BATEMANS BAY, Australia/SYDNEY (Reuters) — The Australian Navy on Friday began evacuating around 1,000 people stranded on the east coast of the fire-ravaged country as a searing weather front was s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders announced Thursday that his campaign had raised an impressive $34.5 million in the final three months of last year, solidifying him as the quarter’s top fundraise...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The year 2019 was a tumultuous one in the opera world, a year in which sexual harassment allegations against superstar Placido Domingo prompted his disappearance from American s...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — The U.S. government announced Thursday it was banning most flavored e-cigarettes in a bid to curb the rising tide of youth vaping, but under industry pressure it stopped sho...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Julian Castro, the grandson of a Mexican immigrant who became San Antonio mayor and a U.S. housing secretary, suspended his 2020 Democratic presidential run on Thursday after...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday declined to weigh in on whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can return to his post now that he has been indicted, postponing any ruling o...
BARCELONA (AFP-Jiji) — A key Catalan separatist party said Thursday it would allow Spain’s Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez another term as prime minister, paving the way to end months of political...
TUNIS (AP) — North African neighbors Tunisia and Algeria both announced the make-up Thursday of new governments, with an unprecedentedly high number of women put forward by the Tunisian prime minis...
TEHRAN — Farming resumed Wednesday on a farm in Nangarhar Province, eastern Afghanistan, which had been supported by slain Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura.
Work on the farm had been suspended after...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump starts the new year knee-deep in daunting foreign policy challenges at the same time he’ll have to deal with a likely impeachment trial in the Senate ...
After Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party suffered a painful defeat in the recent Britain’s election, it’s easy to criticize the European center-left for being poorly led and out of touch with voters. ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists say they have finally calculated the age of the youngest known remains of Homo erectus, which is generally considered an ancestor of our species. The fossilized skull fra...
There’s no way to sugarcoat this news: Nearly half of American adults will be obese within a decade and one-quarter will be severely so, a new report predicts.
It corrects for a weakness in previou...
Lithium from batteries that power smartphones, tablets and electric cars may contaminate tap water, a Korean study suggests. Drinking water can contain a little lithium because the mineral occurs na...
WASHINGTON/BAGHDAD (Reuters) — U.S. officials said on Sunday that air strikes in Iraq and Syria against an Iran-backed militia group were successful, but warned that “additional actions” may sti...
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called at a ruling party meeting for “positive and offensive measures” to ensure security ahead of a year-end deadline he has set for denuclear...
ROME (Reuters) — Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte named two new ministers on Saturday to replace his education minister who recently resigned and outlined an ambitious agenda for next year inc...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden sought Saturday to clarify his assertion that if the U.S. Senate subpoenas him to testify in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, he will defy the order. But he ...
MONSEY, N.Y. (AP) — A man attacked a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home north of New York City late Saturday, stabbing and wounding five people before fleeing in a vehicle, police said. The ...
BEIRUT (AFP-Jiji) — Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Beirut home of Lebanon’s new prime minister on Saturday, calling for Hassan Diab’s resignation less than 10 days after he was appoin...
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (AFP-Jiji) — Ukrainian authorities and pro-Russian separatists in the war-torn east of the country are expected Sunday to swap dozens of prisoners in a frontline operation that s...
The first one occurred 19 days into the new year when a man used an ax to kill four family members including his infant daughter. Five months later, 12 people were killed in a workplace shooting in Vi...
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Thousands of koalas are feared to have died in a wildfire-ravaged area north of Sydney, further diminishing Australia’s iconic marsupial, while the fire danger increased i...
BEIJING — China launched nine state-of-the-art guided missile destroyers this year, according to Chinese media reports, which also claimed that the achievement was a world record.
Such a buildup fu...
MUMBAI (Reuters) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government did not anticipate the protests against a new citizenship law that have raged across the country and is now scrambling to contro...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) —The rumors swirled for decades: A dark history long lay buried under the grassy knolls and manicured lawns of a country club in Florida’s capital city.
Over the years, nea...
DONGGUAN/HONG KONG (Reuters) — Wang Zhishen was thrilled when Danish shipper A.P. Moller-Maersk gave him two months’ paid leave, relishing the chance to spend time with his wife and daughters in C...
“I wish I could skip to the end of the book to know what happens,” a colleague said in passing, during one of those late evenings of drawn-out parliamentary debate that ended, like the bags of pop...
ANKARA/TRIPOLI (Reuters) — Turkey will send troops to Libya at the request of Tripoli as soon as next month, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, putting the North African country’s c...
SEOUL (AP) — A South Korean court on Friday rejected a request to arrest a key ally of President Moon Jae-in who is being investigated over allegations of corruption and power abuse, saying he was ...
VENICE, Italy (AP) — “Every stone is a treasure,” says the technical director of St. Mark’s Basilica’s vestry board, indicating the prized gold-leaf mosaics overhead, the inlaid stone pavem...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong riot police fired rounds of tear gas at thousands of protesters, many wearing masks and reindeer horns, after scuffles in shopping malls and a prime tourist district...
VATICAN CITY (AFP-Jiji) — Pope Francis ushered in Christmas on Wednesday for the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics with a message of unconditional love, saying “God continues to love us all, even t...
HONG KONG (AP) — The Hong Kong seller of luxury watches looked on in horror as masked men wielding the biggest sledgehammer he’d ever seen smashed through the door of a neighboring watch store, he...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Billionaire U.S. presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday said his campaign had unknowingly used prison workers to make telephone calls on his behalf. Bloomberg, ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Iraq’s parliament approved on Tuesday a new electoral law, a key demand of protesters to make elections fairer, but political deadlock is still holding up the selection of an ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — One of Russia’s Sukhoi Su-57 stealth fighter jets crashed on Tuesday in the Far East during a test flight, the plane’s maker said, the first accident of its kind involving wh...
MAARET AL-NUMAN, Syria (AFP-Jiji) — At least eight people including five children were killed Tuesday in Russian air strikes on northwest Syria, as France and Turkey appealed for an end to violence...
KATHMANDU — Three decades ago, the hills behind Nurpu Sherpa’s house were barren and ugly. Today, they are lush green with pine trees — a result of a massive tree plantation drive in 1991 that b...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) — India’s federal Cabinet approved funds on Tuesday for a census and population survey to be conducted next year, amid fears that the database could be used to build a controv...
CHENGDU, China — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in held summit talks Tuesday for the first time in about 15 months and agreed to continue discussions.
Athough the m...
PERTH, Australia (AP) — Australia’s beleaguered prime minister announced Tuesday that volunteer firefighters from the federal public sector will receive paid leave entitlements in a move to help ...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Jihadists attacked a town in northern Burkina Faso and killed 35 civilians, most of them women, and ensuing clashes with security forces left 80 jihadists dead, the...
BERLIN (Reuters) — Germans will have to change their lifestyles, cutting back on holidays and paying a real price to master the challenge of climate change, the speaker of Germany’s parliament Wo...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party has lost a key state legislature election, a setback for the party as it faces massive anti-government protests agai...
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s transitional authorities and a rebel faction reached a peace deal on Tuesday, part of government efforts to end the country’s decades-long civil wars. The deal was signed...
SEOUL (AP) — A new satellite image of a factory where North Korea makes military equipment used to launch long-range missiles shows the construction of a new structure.
The release of several imag...
Boeing, NASA, and U.S. Army personnel work around the Boeing Starliner spacecraft shortly after it landed in White Sands, N.M., on Sunday. Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico deser...
DEBARK, Ethiopia (Reuters) — Rahmat Hussein once inspired fear and respect for the watchful eye she cast over her Ethiopian neighborhood, keeping files on residents and recommending who should get a...
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump spoke on Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping and claimed progress on issues from trade to North Korea and Hong Kong, but China said X...
LONDON (Reuters) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson won approval for his Brexit deal in Parliament on Friday, the first step toward fulfilling his election pledge to deliver Britain’s departure from ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Police banned public gatherings in parts of the Indian capital and other cities for a third day Friday and cut internet services to counter growing protests against a new law that ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is closely watching North Korea for signs of a possible missile launch or nuclear test in the coming days that officials are referring to as a “Christmas surpri...
NEW YORK (AP) —The first line of U.S. President Donald Trump’s obituary has been written. While Trump is all but certain to avoid removal from office, a portion of his legacy took shape Wednesday...
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng met U.S. special envoy for North Korea Stephen Biegun on Friday, China’s Foreign Ministry said, Biegun’s second high-leve...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea stands to lose a rare legitimate source of foreign currency, worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year, if nations that employ its people as guest workers abide by a U.N...
THE HAGUE (Reuters) — The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said on Friday she would launch a full investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories as soon as th...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) — Boeing Co.’s new astronaut capsule failed after liftoff on Friday to climb high enough in orbit to reach the International Space Station, cutting short a critical...
India has exploded into protests against a citizenship law that explicitly discriminates against its 200 million-strong Muslim population. Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government has responded ...
MOUNT WELD, Australia/TOKYO (Reuters) — Sprawled across a spent volcano on the remote edge of the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia, the Mount Weld mine seems a world away from the U.S.-Chi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Donald Trump on Wednesday became the third U.S. president to be impeached as the House of Representatives formally charged him with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress ...
HAVANA (AP) — At midday on Dec. 17, 2014, the sound of church bells echoed in Havana as presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced that the United States and Cuba would reestablish diplomatic...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, will visit Beijing on Thursday and Friday, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday, after China and Russia proposed ...
UNITED NATIONS (AFP-Jiji) — Russia and China on Monday proposed easing sanctions against nuclear-armed North Korea, in response to steps the North takes toward denuclearization. The proposal, in ...
WASHINGTON (Jiji Press) — North Korea could fire a long-range ballistic missile in the coming weeks in what it described as a “Christmas gift” to the United States, Gen. Charles Brown, commande...
NEW YORK/SEOUL (Bloomberg) — The United States knocked back a call to ease sanctions on North Korea despite threats of further provocations, as U.S. President Donald Trump said he would “take care...
BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — China’s second aircraft carrier entered service on Tuesday, adding major firepower to its military ambitions as it faces tensions with self-ruled Taiwan as well as the U.S. a...
MADRID (AP) — Marathon U.N. climate talks ended Sunday with a slim compromise that sparked widespread disappointment, after major polluters resisted calls for ramping up efforts to keep global warmi...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. government covertly moved to expel two officials from the Chinese Embassy earlier this year, after they drove onto a military base, the New York Times reported, citi...
SEOUL (AP) — A senior U.S. diplomat said Monday that Washington won’t accept a year-end deadline set by North Korea to make concessions in stalled nuclear talks and urged Pyongyang to return to t...
LONDON (AP) — Chinese television pulled coverage of Arsenal’s Premier League match against Manchester City on Sunday after Mesut Ozil, a forward for the London club, criticized Beijing’s brutal...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met with Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam in Beijing on Monday, saying the Asian financial hub was not yet out of the “dilemma” facing the city’s e...
SEOUL (AP) — A senior U.S. diplomat said Monday that Washington won’t accept a year-end deadline set by North Korea to make concessions in stalled nuclear talks and urged Pyongyang to return to a...
MADRID (Reuters) — A U.N. climate summit ground towards a delayed close on Sunday with major economies reluctant to issue a bold new call for action to combat global warming, prompting sharp critici...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea said it successfully performed another “crucial test” at its long-range rocket launch site that will further strengthen its nuclear deterrent.
The test — the second...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) — English soccer club Arsenal tried on Saturday to distance itself from the comments of its star midfielder Mesut Ozil after he posted messages on Twitter and Instagram critical o...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) — Violent clashes erupted in Delhi between police and hundreds of university students on Friday over the enactment of a new citizenship law that critics say undermines India’s ...
LONDON (Reuters) — Faced with imminent new global marine pollution rules, shipping companies and insurers are puzzling over the risks. To reduce emissions of toxic sulfur that cause premature deat...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea said Saturday it successfully performed another “crucial test” at its long-range rocket launch site that would further strengthen its nuclear deterrent. The test poss...
For 70 years, India has struggled to remain a secular state. In spite of its people being overwhelmingly Hindu, it chose not to distinguish between its citizens — or putative citizens — on the bas...
MADRID (Reuters) — Big polluting countries faced last-ditch pressure from smaller nations to show serious commitment to fighting climate change as negotiators battled into the early hours of Saturd...
ALGIERS (Reuters) — A former prime minister was elected Algeria’s new president in a vote the authorities hope will end months of turmoil, but protesters who toppled his predecessor marched again...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson campaigned on one theme alone — “Get Brexit done.” His sweeping victory in Thursday’s election means that could now happen within weeks. E...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — The European Union left Poland out of a 2050 climate neutrality agreement on Friday after hours of summit haggling with three poorer eastern member states that demanded more fu...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House Judiciary Committee abruptly postponed a historic vote late Thursday on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, shutting down a divisive 14-hour ses...
TEHRAN — Local police have newly detained one Afghan man in connection with the killing of six persons including Japanese doctor Tetsu Nakamura, senior police officers told The Yomiuri Shimbun on Th...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States warned North Korea on Wednesday that its “deeply counterproductive” ballistic missile tests risk closing the door on prospects for negotiating peace but ...
LONDON (Reuters) — Voters went to the polls on Thursday in an election that will pave the way for Brexit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson or propel Britain towards another referendum that could ul...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Five foreign experts have quit a panel advising Hong Kong’s police watchdog on an investigation into police conduct during months of pro-democracy protests after raising dou...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say the interference of Chadian and Sudanese fighters in Libya is “a direct threat” to the security and stability of the war-torn country, which a leader of t...
HELSINKI (Reuters) — Social Democrat Sanna Marin said on Tuesday she would restore stability to Finland and keep using social media — but with care — after being sworn in as the world’s young...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — President Donald Trump warned Russia not to interfere in U.S. elections in talks with Russia’s top diplomat on Tuesday, the White House said, after meetings where the two s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats announced two articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, declaring he “betrayed the nation” with his actions toward Ukraine as the...
SEATTLE (AP) — When an Iowa mother tried to take her child from her husband during an argument on a snowy sidewalk in 2015, an officer stepped in to stop the scuffle, but he accidentally fired his w...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed economic sanctions on more than a dozen individuals suspected of human rights violations in six countries and banned two others from en...
THE HAGUE (AFP-Jiji) — Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi faced calls for Myanmar to “stop the genocide” of Rohingya Muslims as she personally led her country’s defense at the U.N.’s top...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Police waged an hours-long gunfight with two men armed with high-powered rifles on Tuesday in and around a New Jersey cemetery and kosher market, leaving six people dead, inclu...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed Tuesday to demolish three years of stalemate over Brexit, as Britain’s political leaders geared up for a frantic final day of genera...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli legislators submitted a bill Tuesday that would dissolve parliament and trigger unprecedented third national elections in less than a year.
Israel has been mired in polit...
ALGIERS (AP) — Two former prime ministers of Algeria were convicted and sentenced to prison Tuesday for corruption-related charges in a landmark trial, unleashing cheers of joy from pro-democracy a...
BEIRUT (AP) — Angry protesters attacked the municipality headquarters in Lebanon’s second largest city, Tripoli, on Tuesday, smashing windows and setting a room on fire, in an outburst of violenc...
BUENOS AIRES (AP) — Alberto Fernandez assumed the presidency of Argentina on Tuesday, returning the country to the ranks of left-leaning nations at a moment of right-wing resurgence in the Western ...
PARIS (AP) — The presidents of Ukraine and Russia agreed Monday to revive the peace process on the bloody separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine and exchange all their prisoners, but they failed to...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — The U.N. Security Council will meet on Wednesday, at the request of the United States, over missile launches by North Korea and the possibility of an “escalatory” pro...
SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — North Korea on Monday slammed U.S. President Trump for “bluffing” and called him “an old man bereft of patience” as Pyongyang ramps up pressure on Washington over stalled...
WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un risks losing “everything” if he resumes hostility and his country must denuclearize, ...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) — At least five people were killed, up to 20 injured and several were reported missing after a volcano suddenly erupted off the coast of New Zealand’s North Island on Monday, ...
This Christmas, instead of a free-range turkey, how about a beefless Wellington washed down with a few glasses of “Nosecco?” And rather than falling asleep watching the Queen, why not tune in to y...
What to make of the alarming data on assaults, murders and other unsafe incidents reported by Uber Technologies Inc. on Thursday?
More than 3,000 sexual assault allegations were made in 2018 by Uber...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn clashed Friday night in the last head-to-head debate before a general election in six days — an ...
LONDON (Reuters) — A senior British diplomat in Washington has resigned, saying she did not want to “peddle half-truths” over Brexit for a government she did not trust, CNN reported on Friday. ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The White House said on Friday it would refuse to take part in hearings in the U.S. House of Representatives set for this week that will consider what articles of impeachment...
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — An aviation student from Saudi Arabia opened fire in a classroom at the Naval Air Station Pensacola on Friday morning, killing three people in an attack the Saudi government ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Thursday to immediately extend the only remaining nuclear arms reduction pact with the United States, but a senior U.S. official said Washingt...
PARIS (AP) — Paris police fired tear gas at demonstrators Thursday as the Eiffel Tower shut down, France’s high-speed trains came to a standstill and hundreds of thousands marched nationwide in a ...
KABUL (AP) — A shooting ambush in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday killed a Japanese physician and aid worker widely respected and beloved in the war-scarred nation, triggering an outpouring of gri...
LONDON (Reuters) — Question: How do you predict the outcome of a snap election when so many polls have been so wrong, half of voters haven’t made up their minds and the crucial factor may not be w...
WATFORD, England (AP) — NATO leaders sought Wednesday to paper over differences like the military alliance’s future priorities but insisted they would respond as one in the event of an attack on ...
KABUL (AP) — Washington’s special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad was in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday to launch an “accelerated effort” to get Afghans on both sides of the protracted co...
WATFORD, England (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump called Justin Trudeau “two-faced” on Wednesday after the Canadian Prime Minister appeared to be caught on camera joking about his press ...
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) — The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would require the Trump administration to toughen its response to China’s crackdown ...
KABUL (AP) — A Japanese physician and aid worker in eastern Afghanistan died of his wounds after an attack Wednesday that also killed five Afghans, including the doctor’s bodyguards, the driver a...
WATFORD, England (Reuters) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday that NATO was rock solid in its commitment to protect its members, but that peace could not be taken for granted ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A new report from U.S. Democrats compiling evidence on impeachment revealed contact between President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and California Rep. Devin Nu...
A German political crisis isn’t a raging, unstoppable, unpredictable forest fire: It starts with seemingly irreconcilable positions but then evolves into a tedious, detail-focused negotiation and, m...
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) — Global reinsurers are stepping up their warnings to life insurer clients about the potential risks of vaping, putting pressure on underwriters to charge certain vapers hi...
BERLIN (AFP-Jiji) — Berlin’s controversial and overcrowded Cold War landmark Checkpoint Charlie is set for a dramatic facelift, after the city government agreed to a contested redevelopment plan T...
LONDON (Reuters) — An American woman who says she was forced to have sex with Britain’s Prince Andrew has appealed to Britons to take her side, saying that only she was telling the truth about a ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday U.S. legislation supporting protesters may damage business confidence in the financial hub, as she announced a fourth round of reli...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Despite pleas to set aside bickering over military spending so the issue doesn’t dominate a third NATO summit in a row, the United States is almost certain to demand again this wee...
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday U.S. legislation backing protesters in Hong Kong did not make trade negotiations with China easier, but added he believes B...
Biologists recently revealed a new form of the gene-editing tool known as Crispr that allows researchers to make precise changes to almost any element of DNA, permanently altering cellular biochemistr...
BAGHDAD (AP) — A day after more than 40 protesters were killed by security forces, Iraq’s prime minister announced Friday that he would submit his resignation to parliament, a step that carried un...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. government may expand its power to stop more foreign shipments of products with U.S. technology to China’s Huawei, amid frustration the company’s blacklisting ha...
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) — China’s military is increasingly using scientific research in the Arctic as a way into the region, a Danish intelligence service said on Friday, as it warned of intensifyin...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — A U.S. digital currency specialist living in Singapore has been arrested and criminally charged with helping North Korea use cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to evade A...
LONDON/BELGRADE (Reuters) — Since October, French President Emmanuel Macron has questioned the effectiveness of NATO, hit pause on EU enlargement and called for a new “strategic relationship” wi...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Facebook said on Saturday it had issued a correction notice on a user’s post at the request of the Singapore government, but urged for a measured approach to the implementat...
PARIS (AP) — The French government summoned the Turkish ambassador Friday to seek explanations after his president described French President Emmanuel Macron as “brain dead.” Ahead of a NATO s...
LIMA (Reuters) — Peruvian opposition leader Keiko Fujimori walked free from prison on Friday night after being jailed for more than a year pending a trial over allegations she accepted illegal camp...
VALLETTA (Reuters) — Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has told associates he plans to resign over the political and legal crisis stemming from the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, ...
AMMAN (Reuters) — A financial crisis in Lebanon has hit the economy of neighboring Syria hard, choking off a vital source of dollars and dragging the Syrian pound to record lows.
Shut out of the gl...
SAO PAULO (Reuters) — Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro claimed on Friday that Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio financed fires being set in the Amazon rainforest, without presenting any evidence,...
MADRID (AFP-Jiji) — Spain wanted to make a splash on the international scene by agreeing to host next month’s COP25 climate summit at the last minute after Chile pulled out.
But experts say gre...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police reopened public access to a university campus Friday after blocking it for 12 days to try to arrest anti-government protesters holed up inside.
A cordon around t...
GAZA STRIP — A man living in the Gaza Strip has escaped poverty by making “book art” using origami techniques.
Ahmed Humaid, 29, began creating book art after coming across such works made by ...
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed “great satisfaction” over the latest test of a large multiple-rocket launcher, state media said on Friday, a launch that experts said...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is planning to visit Imphal, in northeastern India, where a fierce World War II battle took place between the Imperial Japanese Army and Allied forces, from Dec. 15-17, sour...
MADRID (AP) — The 22 member states of the European Space Agency pledged Thursday to boost their funding to support more missions and research projects, including a new generation of satellites to m...
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) — President Donald Trump paid a surprise Thanksgiving visit to Afghanistan, where he announced the U.S. and Taliban have been engaged in ongoing peace talks and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law congressional legislation backing protesters in Hong Kong despite angry objections from Beijing, with which he is seek...
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) — China warned the United States on Thursday that it would take “firm countermeasures” in response to U.S. legislation backing anti-government protesters in Hong Kon...
HONG KONG (AP) — Police teams on Thursday began clearing a Hong Kong university that was a flashpoint for clashes with anti-government demonstrators, as the government slammed a U.S. move to sign i...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trees toppling onto above-ground power lines spark wildfires, more than 1,000 of them in the last decade in California alone. The wires snap in blizzards and hurricanes, causing da...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — After months of sometimes-violent unrest in Hong Kong, an election with a record turnout handed a big victory to pro-democracy local district council candidates, posing a new c...
SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — Fans mourned and questions were asked Monday after K-pop star and revenge porn victim Goo Hara was found dead in a possible suicide, which would make her the second female singer ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States on Tuesday set out a procedure to protect its telecommunications networks and their supply chains from national security threats, saying it would consider w...
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) — Pope Francis, who met victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster while in Japan, said on Tuesday that nuclear energy should not be used until there are ironclad gu...
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea’s military fired warning shots toward a North Korean merchant boat with engine trouble that violated their sea border on Wednesday, South Korean officials said. Th...
GENEVA (AP) — Countries have procrastinated for too long and need to begin making steep cuts to their greenhouse gas emissions immediately, or risk missing agreed targets for limiting global warmin...
HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — Hong Kong’s deeply unpopular leader Carrie Lam acknowledged Tuesday that public dissatisfaction with her government fuelled a landslide win by pro-democracy candidates in l...
HONG KONG/SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) — Tightening control over efforts to manage the upheaval in Hong Kong, the Chinese leadership has set up a crisis command center on the mainland side of the borde...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) — China’s Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Ambassador Terry Branstad on Monday to protest against the passing in the U.S. Congress of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act...
TIRANA (Reuters) — At least six people have died after the most powerful earthquake to hit Albania in decades rocked the capital of Tirana and surrounding region early on Tuesday, causing several b...
AMSTERDAM (AFP-Jiji) — Like many other 9-year-olds, Laurent Simons likes TV and his pet dog. But he also wants to make artificial organs, and is about to get the qualifications to set him on his wa...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted Thursday in a series of corruption cases, throwing Israel’s paralyzed political system into further disarray and threatenin...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former White House official said Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump’s top European envoy was sent on a “domestic political errand” seeking investigations of Democra...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Navy warships, on two occasions in the past few days, have sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea, the U.S. military told Reuters on Thursday, at a ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Some anti-government protesters trapped inside a Hong Kong university on Wednesday tried to flee through the sewers, where one student said she saw snakes, but firemen prevente...
MANCHESTER (Reuters) — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson doubled down on his Brexit promises on Tuesday, saying only he could take Britain out of the European Union quickly in a testy leadership deb...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. administration of President Donald Trump on Monday said it no longer considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank to be a violation of international law, reversing four ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong’s embattled leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday she hoped a standoff between police and a hold-out group of anti-government protesters at a university could be resol...
VIENNA (Reuters) — Iran has breached another limit in its nuclear deal with major powers by accumulating slightly more than 130 tons of heavy water, a substance used in a type of reactor it is devel...
DUBAI (AP) — Iran on Monday alternatively downplayed and demonized ongoing protests across the country that have killed at least five people and renewed pressure on the government as the country st...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States is gravely concerned about deepening political unrest and violence in Hong Kong, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday, urging the city’s gov...
SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — The United States must end its joint exercises with Seoul “once and for all” to facilitate dialogue with Pyongyang, North Korea said Tuesday, just days after the allies postp...
MANILA (Reuters) — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday he believed South Korea “can and should” contribute more on cost-sharing for hosting the U.S. military, after Seoul broke off t...
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korean and U.S. officials broke off talks on Tuesday aimed at settling the cost burden for Seoul of hosting the U.S. military, South Korea’s Foreign Ministry said, amid a ...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong police laid siege to a university on Monday, firing rubber bullets and tear gas to pin back anti-government protesters armed with gasoline bombs and other weapons an...
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s late entry into the presidential race offers Democrats a fresh — and perhaps last — chance to reassess who they think is the strongest candidate to take...
KOLKATA (Reuters) — India’s tax officials are facing a taxing issue.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government wants them to collect 17 percent more in direct taxes this year as New Delhi seeks...
HONG KONG (AP) — Police breached a Hong Kong university campus held by protesters early Monday after an all-night siege that included firing repeated barrages of tear gas and water cannons.
Anti-...
DUBAI (AP) — Protests struck several Iranian cities early Saturday over the government cutting back on gasoline subsidies and increasing costs by 50 percent, demonstrations ranging from people aban...
MIAMI (AP) — In May, after pulling out of a Chinese shipyard for repairs, a giant oil tanker set out on a perilous journey. Dialing in “Caribbean” on a mandatory tracking system, the captain of...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea on Thursday said the United States has proposed a resumption of stalled nuclear negotiations in December as they approach an end-of-year deadline set by North Korean leader...
SANTA CLARITA, Calif. (AP) — A student pulled a gun from his backpack and opened fire at a Southern California high school Thursday, killing two students and wounding three others before shooting h...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday dangled the prospect of completing an initial trade deal with China “soon,” but offered no new details on negotiations in a campaign-...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong anti-government protesters paralyzed parts of the Asian financial hub for a third day, with some transport links, schools and many businesses closing after an escalat...
BEIJING (AP) — A sharp escalation of violence in Hong Kong is once again raising the question of how China’s central government will respond: Will it intervene, or allow the chaos to persist? Th...
HONG KONG (AP) — Police fired tear gas at protesters who littered streets with bricks and disrupted morning trains Tuesday for the second day in a row as Hong Kong’s five months of anti-government...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s former U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, alleges in her upcoming memoir that two administration officials who were ultimately pushed out by Trump once tr...
Although most young Americans believe in the value of higher education, many still consider a high school diploma alone to be enough for success, according to a survey of teens and young adults by Th...
MADRID (AP) — Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists won Spain’s national election on Sunday but large gains by the upstart far-right Vox party appear certain to widen the political deadlock...
HONG KONG (AP) — Police in Hong Kong shot a protester as demonstrators blocked subway lines and roads during the Monday morning commute.
Online video showed a police officer collaring one protest...
LA PAZ (AP) — Bolivian President Evo Morales announced his resignation Sunday under mounting pressure from the military and the public after his re-election victory triggered weeks of fraud allegat...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany marked the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall, a pivotal moment in the events that brought down Communism in eastern Europe.
Leaders from Germany, P...
BERLIN (AFP-Jiji) — Germany on Saturday marked 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall that ushered in the end of communism and national reunification, as the Western alliance that helped secure...
Allegations that two former Twitter employees spied on users for the Saudi government have spotlighted the threat posed by insiders who exploit their access to the mountains of sensitive data held by...
CURITIBA, Brazil (AP) — Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva walked out of prison on Friday, injecting new energy into a weakened opposition. His exit drew cheers from supporters w...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — A student at a Hong Kong university who fell during protests over the weekend died early on Friday morning, marking the first student death during the antigovernment demonstra...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A top U.S. diplomat told congressional investigators that U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani conducted a “campaign full of lies” against the ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
