August 20, 2019
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter said Monday it has suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it believes were part of a Chinese government influence campaign targeting the protest movement in Hong Kong. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years by a treaty that both the United States and Russia abandoned this month, the Penta...
BOGOTA (AP) — The U.S. has opened up secret communications with Venezuela’s socialist party boss as members of President Nicolas Maduro’s inner circle seek guarantees they won’t face retributi...
BRASILIA (Reuters) — United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi appealed on Sunday for more humanitarian aid for Venezuelan refugees pouring into neighboring countries where they ...
DUBAI (AP) — Iran appears to be preparing another satellite launch after twice failing this year to put one in orbit, despite U.S. accusations that the Islamic Republic’s program helps it develop...
DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s iconic palm trees are under attack from a fatal disease that turns them to dried crisps in months, with no chance for recovery once they become ill. Spread by a ric...
JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) — Israeli forces opened fire at a group of Palestinian gunmen as they tried to cross the Gaza border, the military said on Sunday and Palestinian health officials said thre...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) — Turkey replaced pro-Kurdish party mayors with state officials in three southeastern cities and detained more than 400 people for suspected militant links on Monday, t...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday warned China that carrying out a Tiananmen Square-style crackdown on Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters would harm trade talks between ...
Former Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen called U.S. President Donald Trump’s reported idea of buying Greenland, a self-governed Danish territory, an out-of-season April Fools’ joke. Trum...
The government is making final arrangements to include the promotion of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy led by Japan and the United States in a declaration at the upcoming Tokyo International Co...
BEIRUT (Reuters) — Air strikes have killed more than two dozen civilians in northwestern Syria in the last two days in an escalation of a Russian-backed offensive against the last major rebel stron...
KHARTOUM (Reuters) — Sudan’s main opposition coalition and the ruling military council on Saturday signed a final power-sharing deal that paves the way for a transitional government, and eventual...
GENEVA (AP) — From guitars to traditional medicines and from tusk to tail, mankind’s exploitation of the planet’s fauna and flora is putting some of them at risk of extinction. Representatives ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Pro-democracy protesters marched on one side of Hong Kong’s famous harbor on Saturday to demand the government heed their demands. Across the water, a pro-government rally called ...
Police in Portland, Ore., arrested at least 13 people on Saturday as a right-wing group marched to a downtown waterfront park and anti-fascist counterprotesters scuffled with officers who tried to ke...
DUBAI (Reuters) — A drone attack launched by Yemen’s Houthi group on an oilfield in eastern Saudi Arabia on Saturday caused a fire at a gas plant but had no impact on oil production, state-run oi...
KABUL (Reuters) — A suicide bomber killed 63 people and wounded 182 in an attack on a packed wedding reception in the Afghan capital on Saturday night, the interior ministry said, as violence shows ...
LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters) — A charity rescue ship carrying 134 migrants, mostly Africans, was stranded off the coast of Italy on Friday as a political battle in Rome stopped it from docking and ev...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — New York City’s chief medical examiner determined on Friday that suicide by hanging was the cause of death for financier Jeffrey Epstein, whose body was found six days ago in...
WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) — U.S. congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Friday rejected an offer by Israel to let her travel to the West Bank, the latest twist in a dispute drawing U.S. President Dona...
GIBRALTAR (AP) — The captain of an Iranian supertanker at the center of a diplomatic standoff no longer wants to keep command of the ship, which is in need of repairs that could impede its immediate...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Several thousand Hong Kong schoolteachers and supporters braved thunderstorms on Saturday to start a weekend of anti-government protests, despite fears that police could adopt...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir began restoring landline phone services on Saturday after a nearly two-week security crackdown and news blackout following a decision to ...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea on Saturday said leader Kim Jong Un supervised another test-firing of an unspecified new weapon, seen as an attempt to pressure Washington and Seoul over slow nuclear negot...
TASIILAQ, Greenland (AP) — Greenlanders are giving Donald Trump the cold shoulder.
Although amused, they’re definitely not warming up to the U.S. president’s talk of buying the semiautonomous...
WEIFANG, China (Reuters) — Charging elderly clients just 1 yuan or about 15 cents a day, little-known Lanchuang Network Technology Corp. has embarked on one of the most ambitious undertakings in eld...
ROME (Reuters) — Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Thursday accused his far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, of disloyalty and being obsessed with blocking immigration, intensifying ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are making a new attempt at adding graphic images to cigarette packets to discourage Americans from lighting up. If successful, it would be the first change ...
JAKARTA (AP) — Indonesia’s president on Friday appealed for support to move the country’s capital from overcrowded, sinking and polluted Jakarta, in an annual national address to mark the 74th ...
MADRID (AP) — The British overseas territory of Gibraltar released a seized Iranian supertanker Thursday over last-minute objections from the U.S., potentially easing tensions between London and Te...
KHARTOUM (AFP-Jiji) — Sudan’s military rulers and protest leaders on Saturday are scheduled to sign a landmark deal reached after a bloody uprising meant to pave the way for civilian rule. The c...
HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — China warned Thursday that it will not “sit by and watch” the unrest unfolding in Hong Kong, as U.S. President Donald Trump expressed concern over the risk of a violent r...
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AFP-Jiji) — More mental hospitals are needed to take potential mass killers off the streets, U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday in response to recent mass shootings, while ...
SEOUL (AFP-Jiji) — North Korea fired two unidentified projectiles into the sea on Friday and launched a scathing attack on “foolish” calls for dialogue from South Korean President Moon Jae-in, r...
LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke said Thursday he was resuming his campaign with a new sense of focus after a mass shooting in his Texas hometown,...
HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — Daredevil Alain Robert — dubbed the “French Spiderman” — climbed a Hong Kong skyscraper on Friday and unfurled a “peace banner” as the financial hub is rocked by ...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — July 2019 temperatures were the hottest ever recorded globally, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Thursday, while satellite data showed po...
HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — Hong Kong’s government unveiled 19.1 billion Hong Kong dollars (U.S.$2.44 billion) worth of economic relief measures and downgraded its growth forecasts on Thursday as the ...
PLYMOUTH, England (AFP-Jiji) — Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg set sail for New York on Wednesday, heading for a U.N. summit on a zero-emissions yacht skippered by a member of Monaco’s ru...
NEW DELHI (AFP-Jiji) — Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed on Thursday his “pathbreaking” move to strip the restive region of Kashmir of its autonomy, in a tub-thumping speech marking Indian In...
LONDON (Reuters) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday some British lawmakers hoping to block Brexit were engaged in “terrible” collaboration with the European Union by under...
OTTAWA (Reuters) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday accepted a watchdog’s report that he breached ethics rules by trying to influence a corporate legal case but refused to apolo...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong braced on Thursday for more mass demonstrations through the weekend, with the weeks-long crisis escalating after pro-democracy protests forced the cancellation of ne...
SHENZHEN (AFP-Jiji) — Thousands of Chinese military personnel waving red flags paraded at a sports stadium in a city across the border from Hong Kong on Thursday, an AFP reporter witnessed. Armore...
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday that Japan should look back upon its imperialist past but Seoul will “gladly join hands” if Tokyo chooses dialog, in a care...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — China’s Hong Kong Liaison office said on Wednesday that anti-government protesters were no different to “terrorists,” as U.S. President Donald Trump said Chinese troops w...
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — The main city in the India-administered part of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir has turned into a vast maze of razor wire coils and steel barricades as drones and hel...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — The Los Angeles Opera said Tuesday it will investigate accusations of sexual misconduct against Spanish tenor Placido Domingo, as two organizations canceled planned appearan...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — Pakistan on Tuesday asked the United Nations Security Council to meet over India’s decision to revoke the special status of Jammu and Kashmir, the Himalayan region that...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — The Kremlin boasted on Tuesday it was winning the race to develop new cutting edge nuclear weapons despite a mysterious rocket accident last week in northern Russia that caused a ...
DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) — The British territory of Gibraltar will not yet release an Iranian oil tanker seized by Royal Marines in the Mediterranean despite an Iranian report that it could do so on ...
The city of San Francisco and nearby Santa Clara County sued U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday, seeking to block a new rule that would drastically reduce legal immigration by ...
BEIJING — China’s Yutu 2 lunar rover has entered its eighth period of dormancy on the moon’s far side and is in good condition after traveling 271 meters, according to China National Space Admin...
PHNOM PENH — Naturally, twins Sor Sophany and Sor Sophanin share a lot in common — not least their names — but most important among the pair’s similarities are two things; firstly their love f...
KATHMANDU — Last week, 44 cattle died in Sunsari, something conservationists and veterinarians say could pose immediate danger to park animals and local residents. Following the discovery of dozens...
The articles on the website of the leading Taiwan newspaper were gushing about a new Chinese government program to lure Taiwanese entrepreneurs to the mainland.
China “treated Taiwanese businessmen...
U.S. President Donald Trump has taken aim at France’s most famous export: wine. His threats to slap higher import tariffs on grands crus, champagnes and the like in retaliation to a new French tax o...
NEW YORK (AP) — Amid revelations about the circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein’s death, federal authorities have intensified parallel inquiries into what went wrong at the Manhattan jail where he...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. experts say they are investigating at least 35 instances in 17 countries of North Koreans using cyber-attacks to illegally raise money for weapons of mass destruction prog...
LONDON (AP) — The United States is ready to negotiate a post-Brexit trade deal with the U.K. “in pieces” to help speed the process as Britain prepares to leave the European Union on Oct. 31, Na...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of four experimental Ebola drugs being tested in Congo seem to be saving lives, international health authorities announced Monday. The preliminary findings prompted an early h...
MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of people attended the funerals Monday of five Russian nuclear engineers killed by an explosion as they tested a new rocket engine, a tragedy that fueled radiation fears and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. administration of President Donald Trump announced Monday it is moving forward with one of its most aggressive steps yet to restrict legal immigration: denying green card...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Tuesday the city’s recovery from protests that have swept the Asian financial hub could take a long time and that she would be responsible...
The government plans to analyze how Japanese firms will be impacted by South Korea’s decision to remove Japan from its list of countries receiving preferential trade status. At this point, the domi...
Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide Saturday morning in a federal jail launched new conspiracy theories online in a saga that has provided fodder for them for years, fueled by Epstein’s ties to pr...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Tens of thousands of Russians staged what a monitoring group called the country’s biggest political protest for eight years on Saturday, defying a crackdown to demand free elect...
SANAA (AP) — Yemeni separatists have wrested control of the port city of Aden — and the grounds of the presidential palace — from forces loyal to the internationally backed government, security...
LAMPEDUSA, Italy (Reuters) — Hollywood star Richard Gere on Saturday urged the Italian government to stop “demonizing people” and instead help migrants who have been stranded on a Spanish chari...
BEIJING (AP) — A powerful typhoon left at least 28 people dead in southeastern China, after a landslide backed up a river that broke through debris and inundated homes, state media reported Sunday....
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea said Sunday leader Kim Jong Un supervised test-firings of an unspecified new weapons system, which extended a streak of weapons demonstrations that are seen as an attempt t...
NEW YORK (Reuters) — Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead on Saturday after an apparent suicide in the New York jail cell where he was being held without bail on sex-trafficking charg...
NEW DELHI (AP) — A strict curfew in Indian-administered Kashmir in effect for a fifth day was eased Friday to allow residents to pray at mosques, officials said, but some protests still broke out i...
LONDON (Reuters) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote to all government employees on Friday to tell them that preparing for a no-deal exit from the European Union is his and their top prior...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea on Saturday extended a recent streak of weapons displays by firing what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea, according to South Korea’s militar...
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana returned Friday to the Mexican beach where her father entered the United States illegally before she was born, this time to put final touches on a ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Another weekend of protests in Hong Kong began Saturday with a rally of parents calling for greater protection for their children as ordinary people have increasingly become caught...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he believes he has influence to rally Republicans around stronger federal background check laws as Congress and the White House work on a re...
MOSCOW (AFP-Jiji) —Twenty years ago on Friday, Russian President Boris Yeltsin appointed his fourth prime minister in less than 18 months: Vladimir Putin, then a relatively unknown security services...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S.-based nuclear experts said on Friday they suspected an accidental blast and radiation release in northern Russia last week occurred during the testing of a nuclear-power...
KABUL (AP) — Afghanistan faces a presidential election next month but few believe the vote will take place as the United States and the Taliban inch closer to a deal that could end the nearly 18-yea...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Turkey’s lira has risen in recent months despite Ankara abruptly sacking the central bank governor and risking U.S. sanctions over Russian missiles, silencing for now critics ...
The biggest rival for Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy Note 10 may not be the most obvious one. Apple Inc. and Huawei Technologies Inc. are the first names that come to mind. At around $1,000, Sam...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea on Saturday fired two more projectiles into the sea, according to South Korea’s military. It is likely another protest at the United States and South Korea continuing joi...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Britain’s foreign minister on Thursday pressed the European Union to amend the terms of Britain’s EU withdrawal agreement, saying Brussels would have to take responsibil...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Demonstrators crowded the arrivals hall at Hong Kong International Airport on Friday, handing out anti-government leaflets and waving banners in a dozen languages in an effort...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — A petition started by a junior Walmart Inc. worker in California to protest the retailer’s sale of firearms, following two mass shootings over the weekend left 31 people de...
GENEVA (AP) — Human-caused climate change is dramatically degrading the Earth’s land and the way people use the land is making global warming worse, a new U.N. scientific report says. That creates...
SEOUL (Reuters) — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper met with senior South Korean leaders on Friday amid a series of regional challenges ranging from a bitter trade row between Seoul and Tokyo to the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, a frequent target of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ire, sued the FBI and the U.S. Justice Department on Thursday over his firing.
The ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Two people were killed and a nearby city reported a rise in radiation levels when a rocket engine blew up at a testing site in northern Russia on Thursday, forcing authorities to...
ROME (Reuters) — The leader of Italy’s ruling League party, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, declared the governing coalition to be unworkable on Thursday after months of internal bickering ...
YANGON (Reuters) — The National League for Democracy was forged in an uprising against one-party rule. Its activists spent years in jail under Myanmar’s military junta. But since taking power thre...
The state of Alaska is in the middle of a big budget fight. In late June, the state’s new Republican governor used a line-item veto to slice more than $400 million in spending out of the $8.7 billio...
MOSCOW (AP) — Police in Kyrgyzstan detained the Central Asian nation’s former president Thursday following violent clashes with his supporters, a day after a previous attempt to arrest him left o...
BELGRADE (AP) — Fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who was sentenced in Thailand to five years in prison on graft-related charges, has received Serbian citizenship.
State new...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the nation Thursday night that he stripped the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir of its statehood and special constitutional status to f...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said no one is authorized to speak to Iran on behalf of the United States, and he accused French President Emmanuel Macron of sending ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday named Joseph Maguire, the nation’s top counterterrorism official, as acting national intelligence director, part of a leadership shake-up ...
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — As millions of Muslims don robes and flock to Mecca for Hajj, a small counter movement to boycott the pilgrimage in protest at Saudi Arabia’s politics has won...
LONDON (Reuters) — Hundreds of people gathered at the world’s most famous zebra crossing on Thursday to mark the 50th anniversary of the day The Beatles created one of the best-known album covers...
SEOUL (Reuters) — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper met with senior South Korean leaders on Friday amid a series of regional challenges ranging from a bitter trade row between Seoul and Tokyo to the...
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in said on Thursday that Japan imposing tighter export curbs against South Korea will undermine Japan’s international credibility for using its i...
CAIRO (AP) — The United Nations investigators assembled in the departure hall of Sanaa’s airport were preparing to leave with precious evidence: laptops and external drives collected from the staf...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — The Islamic State jihadist group was “resurging” in Syria while the United States withdrew troops, and has solidified its insurgent capabilities in neighboring Iraq, a De...
Online message board 8chan’s fortunes worsened on Tuesday, as it was once again made homeless by a technical services provider and its owner was called to testify to the U.S. Congress after 8chan w...
BOGOTA (AP) — For weeks, representatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his would-be successor, opposition leader Juan Guaido, have been shuttling back and forth to Barbados trying to a...
MOSCOW (AFP-Jiji) — Russian prosecutors sought to strip a couple of parental rights on Tuesday after they brought their baby to a rally, as the authorities pressed ahead with a crackdown on the oppo...
EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump, whose rhetoric about an immigrant “invasion” has alienated many in the predominantly Hispanic city of El Paso, was to visit the grieving T...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — Iran asked U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday to push back against the United States after it imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad...
The FBI has opened a domestic terrorism investigation into a California mass shooting by a 19-year-old gunman who killed three people at a food festival last week, officials said on Tuesday. Authori...
NEW YORK (AP) — Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, a pioneer and reigning giant of modern literature whose imaginative power in “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon” and other works transformed American ...
SRINAGAR, India/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to change the status of Kashmir ran into fierce opposition from China and its ally Pakistan on Tuesday as the dis...
HONG KONG (Reuters) — Hong Kong is facing its worst crisis since it returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997, the head of China’s Hong Kong and Macau Affairs office said on Wednesday, as mo...
KABUL (Reuters) — The Afghan Taliban on Tuesday denounced a presidential vote due next month as a sham and threatened to attack election rallies even as the militants and the United States reported ...
WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) — U.S. national security adviser John Bolton reminded North Korea on Tuesday of its leader’s pledge to U.S. President Donald Trump not to resume launches of intercontine...
KABUL (Reuters) — A car bomb exploded on Wednesday outside a police station in Kabul, wounding at least 95 people, government officials said, and the Taliban claimed responsibility. The blast, in ...
PORT MORESBY (AFP-Jiji) — Papua New Guinea has asked Beijing to refinance its $8 billion debt, in a request likely to rile Australia and the United States as they try to maintain their influence in ...
BRUSSELS (AFP-Jiji) — The European Union is bracing for tough Brexit talks with Britain but will stand firm as Prime Minister Boris Johnson ramps up his “no-deal” threats, diplomats said Tuesday...
BRUSSELS (AP) — The United Nations refugee agency expressed concern Tuesday that a new Italian law authorizing massive fines against the owners of private rescue ships could endanger the lives of m...
MAPUTO/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) — With a handshake and a hug, Mozambique’s leaders hoped on Tuesday to close the book on a decades-long conflict. But an election in October and new causes of violen...
LONDON (Reuters) — When Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met entrepreneur Viktor Prokopenya in March 2017, their discussion was scheduled to last for an hour but went on for three times tha...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — July 2019 was the hottest month across the globe ever recorded, according to data released Monday by the European Union’s satellite-based Earth observation network. “While Ju...
HANOI (Reuters) — Vietnamese police on Tuesday broke up a brief protest outside the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi against Beijing’s maritime survey of an offshore block in the southeast Asian nation’...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest tariffs U.S. President Donald Trump plans to impose on Chinese goods would cost U.S. households an average of $200 a year, some economists estimate, and would start to b...
PARIS (AP) — Environmental groups and one of France’s largest labor unions called Monday for a containment shield and other safety measures to ensure decontamination work at Notre Dame Cathedral ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Monday that Moscow would start developing short and intermediate-range land-based nuclear missiles if the United States started doing th...
GENEVA (Reuters) — Iran told European powers on Monday it would further reduce compliance with its 2015 nuclear deal in about a month’s time if they were still failing to protect it from crippling...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday proposed tighter monitoring of the internet, mental health reform and wider use of the death penalty in response to two mass shootings ov...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programs using “widespread and increasingly sophisticated” cyber-attacks to steal...
BOSTON (AP) — The online message board 8chan was effectively knocked offline Monday after two companies cut off vital technical services following the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, whose perpetr...
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR (Reuters) — India on Monday revoked the special status of Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has long been a flashpoint in ties with neighboring Pakistan, moving to grasp its onl...
BOGOTA (AFP-Jiji) — Colombia President Ivan Duque signed an order on Monday allowing 24,000 children born in the country to Venezuelan parents and risking statelessness to be given Colombian nationa...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a freeze on all Venezuelan government assets in the United States on Monday, sharply escalating a diplomatic and sanctions drive aimed at r...
LONDON (Reuters) — Britain on Monday joined the United States in a maritime security mission in the Gulf to protect merchant vessels traveling through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran seized a Briti...
PHNOM PENH (AP) — Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died Sunday, the country’s U.N.-assisted genocide tribunal said. He...
NEW DELHI (AFP-Jiji) — The Indian government on Monday rushed through a presidential decree to scrap Kashmir’s special status, tightening its grip on a fractious region also claimed by Pakistan in...
VALLETTA (Reuters) — A group of 40 migrants rescued by a German charity ship landed in Malta on Sunday and will be taken care off by other European Union member states following a deal negotiated b...
ELYAKIM ARMY BASE, Israel (Reuters) — Israel, a world leader in high-tech, is around 30 years away from its ambition of deploying robot forces, and for now will chose between three prototypes of se...
IDLIB, Syria (Reuters) — Shopkeepers and residents in Idlib have found relief from airstrikes but remain wary after a ceasefire halted fierce government bombing against the rebel foothold.
For th...
JAKARTA (Reuters) — United Nations investigators urged world leaders on Monday to impose targeted financial sanctions on companies linked to the military in Myanmar, and said foreign firms doing bu...
KHARTOUM (AFP-Jiji) — Sudan’s ruling generals and protest leaders signed a hard-won constitutional declaration on Sunday, paving the way for a transition to civilian rule after more than seven mon...
WELLINGTON (Reuters) — New Zealand plans to decriminalize abortion and treat it is as a health issue, the government said Monday in the first major reform to abortion laws in more than four decades...
LONDON (Reuters) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson will fast-track funding for Britain’s public health service, announcing £1.8 billion ($2.19 billion) to upgrade 20 hospitals, part of the new leade...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Turkey will carry out a military operation in a Kurdish-controlled area east of the Euphrates in northern Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, its third...
SAO PAULO (Reuters) — Ricardo Galvao, the sacked head of Brazil’s space research agency, said on Saturday the trend of sharply rising deforestation was undeniable, a day after he was fired follow...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea said Saturday its leader Kim Jong Un supervised another test-firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could potentially enhance the country’s ability to strik...
SYDNEY (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said he wants to deploy an intermediate range conventional missile in the Pacific region within months, now that the Trump administration has formall...
ANKARA (AFP-Jiji) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday laid the foundation stone for the first new church in Turkey since it became a modern republic in 1923. The church in the Istanbul su...
SRINAGAR/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) — Thousands of Indian tourists, pilgrims and workers began leaving the disputed region of Kashmir after a local government alert over possible militant attacks, and Ind...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. President Donald Trump invited Iran’s foreign minister to the White House last month at the height of tensions between the two countries, a magazine reports. The inv...
BANGKOK (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Thailand on Saturday with his hopes for resuming nuclear talks with North Korea dashed, while facing an escalating trade war with China and a ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) — A powerful undersea earthquake that struck off the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java has killed four people and damaged hundreds of buildings, the nation’s disaster agenc...
ST MARGARET’S BAY, England (AFP-Jiji) — A Frenchman who has spent years developing a jet-powered hoverboard zoomed across the English Channel on Sunday after a first attempt last month was cut sho...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Royal Navy says one of its ships shadowed a Chinese destroyer as it sailed through the English Channel.
A navy statement said the HMS Westminster met up with the guided-m...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Democratic presidential candidates’ tussle over health care reform continued Saturday as they pitched themselves to Nevada union members, with former Vice President Joe Biden dec...
MOSCOW (AP) — Police in Moscow cracked down hard on an unsanctioned election protest for the second weekend in a row Saturday, detaining more than 800 people at a rally against the exclusion from ci...
WASHINGTON (AP) — With the scrapping of a landmark arms control agreement Friday, the U.S. announced plans to test a new missile amid growing concerns about emerging threats and new weapons. U.S....
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea fired what appeared to be short-range ballistic missiles twice Friday into the sea off its eastern coast in its third round of weapons tests in just over a week, South Kore...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Rescuers in India on Saturday safely evacuated all 700 passengers from a train after it got stuck in monsoon floodwaters between two stations near Mumbai, the country’s home mini...
MANILA (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the indefinite closure of popular lotteries run by the government’s sweepstakes agency due to alleged massive corruption and said ev...
TUNIS (AP) — Tunisians and world leaders bid adieu on Saturday to the country’s first democratically elected president, Beji Caid Essebsi, who died in office at 92 and left the North African nati...
LONDON (Bloomberg) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reiterated that the so-called Irish backstop will need to be dropped from Britain’s divorce plan from the European Union before a broader ...
JAKARTA (AP) — Indonesia’s president said in an interview that he wants to see the speedy construction of a giant sea wall around Jakarta to prevent the low-lying capital from sinking under the se...
BEIRUT (AP) — A Syrian government airstrike hit a busy open-air market in the country’s northwest on Saturday, killing at least 11 people, most of them children, according to activists. The town ...
TEHRAN (AP) — A top Omani diplomat was in Iran on Saturday for bilateral talks after weeks of volatility over the Strait of Hormuz, the passageway for a fifth of all globally traded crude.
Oman, s...
BUDAPEST (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister said Saturday that the European Union has made “grave mistakes” in the past five years regarding immigration and the economy. The European Commission ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police on Saturday fired tear gas, swung batons and forcefully cleared out protesters who defied warnings not to march in a neighborhood where the weekend before last a m...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday denigrated a majority-black district represented by a congressional nemesis as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” broadening ...
SANGATTE, France (AP) — Looking like a superhero, the French inventor of an airborne hoverboard glided partway over the English Channel on his personal flying machine then crashed in the sea Thursd...
CARACAS (Reuters) — A proposal to modify U.S. oil sanctions on Venezuela to allow crude exports to be bartered for food has divided the country’s opposition between those who say the move would s...
MADRID (Reuters) — Spain’s parliament rejected Pedro Sanchez’s bid to be confirmed as prime minister on Thursday, putting the country on a path to what could be its fourth national election in ...
LONDON (Reuters) — Britain has started sending a warship to accompany all British-flagged vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, a change in policy announced on Thursday after the government previous...
MANILA (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte offered a bounty to anybody who can deliver to him the head of the communist rebel leader behind the killings of four police intelligence officers...
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea’s test of a new missile is meant as a “solemn warning” over rival South Korea’s weapons development and plans to hold military drills with the United States, Pyongy...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday reinstated a two-decades-long dormant policy allowing the federal government’s use of capital punishment and immediately scheduled t...
WASHINGTON (Bloomberg) — Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said he would be willing to travel to Tehran to address the Iranian people about U.S. foreign policy as the Trump administration applies ma...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. lawmakers say they are unhappy about Turkey’s purchase of a Russian missile defense system but are unsure what President Donald Trump — or Congress — should do nex...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Suicide bombings, mass kidnappings, tens of thousands of people killed. A ghastly insurgency by the homegrown Islamic extremist group Boko Haram marks 10 years this week i...
TUNIS (AP) — Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, the North African country’s first democratically elected leader and a symbol of the generation of Tunisians who shook off French rule in the 1950...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) — The United States on Wednesday blocked an attempt by Kuwait, Indonesia and South Africa to get the United Nations Security Council to condemn Israel’s demolition of Pal...
KABUL (AP) — Every day before dawn, 10-year-old Kamran goes to work with his father and other relatives at a brick factory on the outskirts of Kabul. Like many children in Afghanistan, school is a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert Mueller’s testimony Wednesday sent the clearest signal yet that impeachment may be slipping out of reach for Democrats and that the ultimate verdict on U.S. President Don...
BANGKOK (Reuters) — Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha faced opposition questions in parliament for the first time on Thursday as the former junta leader set out his government’s plans...
GENEVA/DUBAI (Reuters) — The top military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Tehran would not negotiate with the United States under any circumstances,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to stop denying asylum to anyone who transits through another country to reach the U.S. border, marking the lates...
BEIRUT (AFP-Jiji) — Bombardment by the Syrian regime and its Russian ally killed 20 civilians including five children Wednesday in the latest violence to hit northwest Syria. The Syrian regime and...
NEW YORK (AP) — Dutch film actor Rutger Hauer, who specialized in menacing roles, including a memorable turn as a murderous android in “Blade Runner” opposite Harrison Ford, has died. He was 75...
SAN JUAN (AP) — Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello said late Wednesday that he will resign Aug. 2 after nearly two weeks of furious protests and political upheaval touched off by a leak of crude and...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — A dangerously intense heatwave across much of Europe is to spike even higher Thursday after already breaking records in several countries, impacting rail traffic and sending peopl...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday hailed Pakistan’s help in advancing peace talks in Afghanistan, a marked shift in tone as the United States seeks an accord with the T...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said European countries had made progress on plans to redistribute refugees rescued in the Mediterranean, efforts criticized by Italy’...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday praised Beijing’s handling of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, a day after suspected triad gangsters attacked demonstrators in a b...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India sent a spacecraft to explore water deposits on the far side of the moon in a successful launch Monday after a technical problem caused a week’s delay.
Scientists at the mi...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration announced Monday that it will vastly extend the authority of immigration officers to deport migrants without allowing them to appear before judges, its seco...
NEW YORK (AP) — He won’t watch. Well, maybe just a little bit. U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday feigned indifference to Robert Mueller’s upcoming congressional testimony, an eyebrow-raisi...
CARACAS (AFP-Jiji) — Venezuela claimed on Monday that a U.S. “spy plane” had entered its airspace, just days after Washington accused a Venezuelan fighter jet of “aggressively” shadowing an ...
CARACAS (AFP-Jiji) — Caracas and other parts of crisis-wracked Venezuela were hit by a massive power cut on Monday that the government blamed on an “electromagnetic attack.” The lights went out...
SAN JUAN (Reuters) — Police in San Juan fired tear gas on Monday night to disperse thousands of protestors demanding Puerto Rico’s govenor resign over offensive chat messages, the latest scandal ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Behind America’s late leap into orbit and triumphant small step on the moon was the agile mind and guts of steel of Chris Kraft, making split-second decisions that propelled the...
PARIS (AP) — Swedish teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg has received the first Freedom Prize awarded by France’s Normandy region, which last month commemorated the 75th D-Day anniversary...
KIEV (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s party was headed to win the biggest share of votes in the Ukraine’s snap parliamentary election, according to an exit poll Sunday, but it was unclear...
VATICAN CITY (AFP-Jiji) — The Vatican on Saturday opened two burial chambers discovered under a trapdoor as it attempts to get to the bottom of a riddle involving two 19th-century princesses and a t...
LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — London’s Metropolitan Police apologized Saturday after its Twitter, emails and news pages were targeted by hackers and began pumping out a series of bizarre messages. After a ...
KIEV (AFP-Jiji) — Ukrainians on Sunday went to the polls to elect a new parliament as comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelenskiy seeks to bring in political novices and consolidate his power.
Ze...
WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller will submit to questions for the first time Wednesday on his explosive report detailing numerous links between President Donald Trump’s ...
ATHENS (Reuters) — Greece will submit a 2020 budget later this year that will fully respect the fiscal targets agreed with its lenders, newly elected Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Satur...
HONG KONG (AFP-Jiji) — Another huge anti-government march kicked off in Hong Kong on Sunday afternoon with seemingly no end in sight to the turmoil engulfing the finance hub, sparked by years of ris...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A moonstruck nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s “giant leap” by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at parties, races, ball games and concerts Saturd...
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) — Panama on Saturday became the first Central American nation to ban single-use plastic bags to try to curb pollution on its beaches and help tackle what the United Nations ha...
SYDNEY (Reuters) — New Zealanders have handed over more than 10,000 guns, weapons parts and accessories in the first week of a buy-back scheme prompted by the country’s worst peacetime mass shoot...
HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. government on Friday expanded its requirement that asylum seekers wait outside the country to a part of the Texas Rio Grande Valley across from one of Mexico’s most danger...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) — The United States should reject “prejudice” and respect facts instead of vilifying China’s record on religious rights, the Communist Party newspaper People’s Daily said...
BERLIN (AP) — Germany is marking the 75th anniversary of the most famous plot to kill Adolf Hitler, honoring those who resisted the Nazis — who were stigmatized for decades as traitors — as pil...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch Supreme Court upheld Friday a lower court’s ruling that the Netherlands is partially liable in the deaths of some 350 Muslim men who were murdered by Bosni...
Sophisticated phony videos called deepfakes have attracted plenty of attention as a possible threat to election integrity. But a bigger problem for the 2020 U.S. presidential contest may be “dumbfa...
As I reach the end of my service as U.S. Ambassador to Japan, I do so with pride and satisfaction in the excellent work Mission Japan has done to strengthen our U.S.-Japan relationship during my tenu...
PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — Local authorities in Paris stressed Thursday that lead contamination from the fire at Notre-Dame cathedral posed no danger to the public after claims in a media report that pollu...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday said that China was responsible for the “stain of the century” of human rights abuses, citing mass detentions of Muslims and ot...
DUBAI (AP) — Iran said Thursday its Revolutionary Guard seized a foreign oil tanker and its crew of 12 for smuggling fuel out of the country, and hours later released video showing the vessel to be...
ROME (AFP-Jiji) — Landfills in flames and rats feasting on waste in the streets have sparked health fears in Rome, as doctors warn families to steer clear of disease-ridden curbside garbage and loc...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The mystery of the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee took yet another twist Saturday following excavations this week at a Vatican City cemeter...
CHONBURI, Thailand (AP) — Farmers in eastern Thailand on Saturday celebrated the start of the sowing season by racing their buffaloes, whose usual duty is to plow the fields.
The annual Wooden Plo...
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian Proton-M rocket successfully delivered a cutting-edge space telescope into orbit Saturday after days of launch delays, Russia’s space agency said. Roscosmos said the tele...
LONDON (AP) — A British police investigation into the leak of confidential diplomatic memos is raising press freedom issues, as police warned Saturday that U.K. media outlets might face a criminal ...
KATHMANDU (AP) — Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall have killed at least 43 people in Nepal in the past few days, with more deaths reported across the Himalayan border in India, of...
TAIPEI (AP) — Taiwan on Saturday defended a proposal to purchase $2.2 billion in arms from the U.S., following a Chinese announcement that it would sanction any American companies involved in the de...
KIEV (Reuters) — Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday they were investigating an attack on a Kiev television station owned by an opposition election candidate, which caused damage but injured no ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Violent clashes broke out after several thousand people marched in Hong Kong against traders from mainland China in what is fast becoming a summer of unrest in the semiautonomous t...
MOGADISHU/GAROWE (Reuters) — Kenyans, Americans, a Briton and Tanzanians were among 26 people killed when Islamist gunmen stormed a hotel in the Somali port city of Kismayo, officials said on Satur...
BEIRUT (AP) — Two months of intensive airstrikes by Syrian government forces and their Russian allies, coupled with a fierce ground assault on rebel-controlled Idlib province, have killed hundreds o...
PARIS (Reuters) — The United States plans to extend the lifespans of existing nuclear reactors and support new technologies as it seeks to revive an industry seen as crucial to its energy security,...
The U.S. government is growing the largest crop of research marijuana in five years, responding to interest in varieties with high levels of THC and CBD.
The government is the only source of pot fo...
SEOUL — Of the 156 cases of illegal exports of strategic goods that South Korea detected from 2015 to March this year, two-thirds were related to weapons of mass destruction, according to a list obt...
National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho passed away aged 49 in Guangzhou, China, on Sunday after battling stage 4 lung cancer for the past two years. His death wa...
Solar energy is among the keys in the administration of South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s push for renewable energy in response to concerns about life-threatening air pollution and demand for cle...
Three major streets in Dhaka are off-limits to rickshaws from Sunday with experts saying the “hasty” move without any alternative arrangements will likely trouble many commuters. The experts opine...
VALLETTA/MILAN (Reuters) — Migrants on board a German rescue ship refused entry into Italy will be taken to a Maltese port before being relocated to other European states, Malta’s prime minister ...
SEOUL (AP) — The son of the highest-profile South Korean ever to defect to North Korea has arrived in the North to permanently resettle, the country’s state media said. If confirmed, it would be ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) — Australian defense officials said on Monday they were tracking a Chinese surveillance ship that is expected to position itself just outside of its territorial waters to monitor m...
MANILA (Reuters) — Impunity and unlawful killings are going on unabated in the Philippines, three years into a war on drugs, with a pattern of executions under the guise of police sting operations ...
AGRA, India (AFP-Jiji) — At least 29 people were killed Monday after a bus careered off one of India’s busiest roads, which has become known as the “highway to hell” because of its poor safety...
CHICAGO (AP) — Nearly one-quarter of Americans say they never plan to retire, according to a poll that suggests a disconnection between individuals’ retirement plans and the realities of aging in...
ANCHORAGE (AP) — Princess Daazhraii Johnson grew up eating dried salmon and moose-head soup — foods labeled weird by other kids who had no understanding of her culture and traditions.
Now the Fa...
Cancer owes the majority of its total deaths to Asian countries, partly because of the region’s massive population, but possibly due to certain lifestyle choices, Taiwan health authorities said base...
KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK, India (AFP-Jiji) — The monsoon may bring respite from the scorching heat, but for the rangers and animals at Kaziranga National Park it also brings danger as poachers take a...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A quake with a magnitude of 7.1 jolted much of California, cracked buildings, set fires, broke roads and caused several injuries while seismologists warned that large aftershocks...
LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) — An Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander threatened on Friday to seize a British ship in retaliation for the capture of an Iranian supertanker by Royal Marines in Gibralta...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The Trump administration on Friday refused to back down over its bid to put a contentious citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. census, meaning a court case will move forward...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaskans who routinely pack knit caps and fleece jackets in summer on Friday were swapping them for sunscreen and parasols amid a prolonged heat wave.
Residents of Anchor...
SEOUL — U.S. President Donald Trump has told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that if Kim presents a proposal that is a little more advanced than what Kim put forward at their February meeting in Han...
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Pope Francis for “very substantive” talks on Thursday, a day before Ukraine’s Catholic leaders were due at the Vatican. Puti...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump celebrated the story of America as “the greatest political journey in human history” in a Fourth of July commemoration before a soggy but cheering c...
GENEVA (AFP-Jiji) — Nearly 7,000 people have been killed during security operations in Venezuela in the past year and a half, the United Nations said Thursday, warning that many of the killings lik...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — MAD, the long-running satirical magazine that influenced everyone from “Weird Al” Yankovic to the writers of “The Simpsons,” will be leaving newsstands after its August...
LONDON (Reuters) — A brown quartzite head of young king Tutankhamen sold at auction in London for more than £4.7 million on Thursday, in the face of Egyptian demands for its return.
The more than...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. candidates running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination on Sunday criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest overture to North Korean leader Kim Jung Un...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Sea ice along northern Alaska disappeared far earlier than normal this spring, alarming coastal residents who rely on wildlife and fish.
Ice melted as a result of excepti...
TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will spend four nights in the United States this month while visiting Caribbean diplomatic allies, her government said on Monday, in a move likely t...
CARACAS (Reuters) — Venezuela’s defense ministry on Sunday confirmed the death of a military officer who opposition leaders and family members said was tortured in custody after his detention ove...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban said Sunday that the latest round of peace talks with the United States is “critical” as the two sides “rewrite” a draft agreement in which American forces woul...
JERUSALEM (AP) — American officials looked on Sunday as Israel opened a newfound Roman-era street at a divisive archaeological site in east Jerusalem, a move that deepened Palestinian animosity tow...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday pushed for greater grassroots water conservation efforts amid concerns weak monsoon rains would push millions of drought-hit peop...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — European Union leaders were locked in all-night negotiations over the bloc’s top jobs, but as day broke on Monday there was still no deal on who should lead its executive as p...
KABUL (AP) — A powerful bomb blast rocked the Afghan capital early Monday, rattling windows, sending smoke billowing from Kabul’s downtown area and wounding at least 65 people, including nine chi...
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey said Sunday that six of its nationals were being held by a Libyan force and vowed to respond to any attacks on its vessels or interests. The Turkish Foreign Ministry said i...
KHARTOUM (AP) — Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Sudan’s capital and elsewhere in the country Sunday calling for civilian rule nearly three months after the army forced out l...
MANILA (AFP-Jiji) — The Islamic State-claimed attack on a military base that killed seven in the restive southern Philippines bears the hallmarks of a suicide bombing, the military said Saturday. ...
BEIJING (Reuters) Chinese President Xi Jinping signed an order for a prisoner amnesty on Saturday, to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, though many excep...
HONG KONG (AP) — Opponents of a proposed extradition law plan a protest Monday as Hong Kong marks the 22nd anniversary of the former British colony’s handover to China, and police said they were ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Tens of thousands of people turned out for gay pride celebrations around the world on Saturday, including a boisterous party in Mexico and the first pride march in North Macedoni...
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A fresh round of talks between the United States and the Taliban began in Qatar on Saturday, just days after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Washington is hoping for an Af...
GENEVA (AFP-Jiji) — Swiss police fired water cannons, tear gas and stun grenades at Cameroonian protesters outside U.N. headquarters in Geneva Saturday as the crowd surged towards a luxury hotel ho...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday prohibited U.S. President Donald Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in Cal...
OSAKA — Leaders from the Group of 20 nations renewed their vow to take action to curb climate change Saturday, as the United States once again stood apart and at odds with the rest of the world. U.S...
Tomoya Ito, a gold medalist in a wheelchair race at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, is looking to get back into the game. The 55-year-old native of Mie Prefecture had previously retired due to a decli...
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — An avowed white supremacist who deliberately drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing a young woman and injuring dozens, apologized to his victims Friday...
VIENNA (Reuters) — European countries offered too little at last-ditch talks on Friday to persuade Iran to back off from its plans to breach limits imposed by its nuclear agreement with world powers...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Adding a high-stakes immigration case to its election-year agenda, the Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether U.S. President Donald Trump can terminate an Obama-era prog...
PARIS/MADRID (Reuters) — France on Friday registered its highest temperature since recordkeeping began as the death toll rose from a heatwave suffocating much of Europe.
The mercury hit 45.9 C in...
OSAKA (AP) — Eyeing a history-making photo opportunity, U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday issued a Twitter invitation to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to join him for a hand shake during a visi...
OSAKA (AP) — A trade war between two economic titans faced a critical junction Saturday, as U.S. President Donald Trump met with China’s Xi Jinping as both sides signaled a desire to de-escalate ...
CAIRO (Reuters) — A U.S.-proposed $9 billion aid package could tempt Egypt with long-sought financing to transform its strife-torn Sinai Peninsula, but analysts say political risks are likely to ou...
Get ready to see another world from the eyes of a dragonfly — at least, a robotic one.
NASA said Thursday that it’s sending a drone called Dragonfly to explore Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Us...
MANILA (Reuters) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened opponents with prison if they try to impeach him, the latest in what a top U.N. official and an Asian lawmakers’ group this ...
GENOA, Italy (AP) — A spectacular planned explosion on Friday knocked down the remaining spans and supporting pillars of the Italian bridge that collapsed last year with the loss of 43 lives.
The...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Presidents and other world leaders and political figures who use Twitter to threaten or abuse others could find their tweets slapped with warning labels. The new policy, anno...
TUNIS (AP) — Twin suicide bombings targeting security forces struck Tunisia’s capital on Thursday, killing a patrol officer and injuring at least eight people.
Tunisia has been struck repeatedl...
PARIS (AP) — The United States does not want a full-blown war with Iran, although it still is seeking to build up international defenses in the region just in case of a conflict, President Donald Tr...
Ahead of the Group of 20 summit, The Yomiuri Shimbun interviewed British Prime Minister Theresa May through a written question format.
The Yomiuri Shimbun: Regarding the intensified global common...
Ahead of the Group of 20 summit, The Yomiuri Shimbun interviewed Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte through a written question format.
The Yomiuri Shimbun: The US and China will come under pre...
Local fisherman Huynh Tan Loc now earns his living mostly from home-stay and food services or night-fishing on a boat rather than regular fishing. Loc, 56, and his wife can earn 350,000 dong ($15) per...
Construction of the National Bank for Tropical Plant Germplasm Resources has been approved in Hainan by the central authorities as part of a national sharing service platform for science and technolog...
PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona’s largest electric company installed massive batteries near neighborhoods with a large number of solar panels, hoping to capture some of the energy from the afternoon sun t...
The Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine Department has backtracked from its claim that its homeopathic formula is highly effective for dengue-fever protection. “It’s just a supplementary me...
HO CHI MINH CITY — Nguyen Van Dang, 61, of Ho Chi Minh City is getting treatment for nicotine dependence after dozens of years of smoking that led to serious health complications. The pack-a-day sm...
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN — In conjunction with World Turtle Day, 25 volunteers held a beach cleanup and bathing of sea turtles at the Marine Biodiversity Centre in Meragang recently. Spearheaded by Pon...
SINGAPORE — It has been widely characterized as trade tensions or a trade war, but the fight between the United States and China is not really about trade, said a former World Bank economist. The t...
More than 800,000 primary school students across the country will use new textbooks in September as part of the new national primary school curriculum that is being rolled out over the coming years. ...
On Friday, the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) will celebrate the heroism of mine detection dogs that help speed up the painstaking task and ease the difficulties faced by demining agents. CMAC D...
WASHINGTON/ISTANBUL (Reuters) — The United States on Friday raised the stakes in its standoff with Turkey over Ankara’s deal to acquire a Russian air defense system, laying out a plan to remove th...
TEHRAN (AFP-Jiji) — Iran said Saturday that new U.S. sanctions on its petrochemical industry show the hollowness of U.S. President Donald Trump’s claims to be open to fresh negotiations with Tehra...
KHARTOUM (AP) — Ethiopia’s prime minister urged “courage” as he met separately with Sudan’s ruling generals and protest leaders on Friday in a bid to revive negotiations amid a crackdown on...
CARACAS (AP) — Venezuelan leader Juan Guaido said Friday that the opposition’s demand for presidential elections is not negotiable, slowing mediation efforts by Norway aimed at resolving Venezuel...
NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City college student accused of plotting a terrorist attack on Times Square spent months trying to stockpile guns and grenades, heaped praise on the Islamic State group a...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — A Russian journalist known for investigating corruption among Moscow city officials has been detained by police and accused of drug offenses, police said on Friday, but his lawye...
The Tourism Council of Bhutan (TCB) has come up with a draft strategy to address the issue of mass tourism, Foreign Minister Dr. Tandi Dorji said at a press conference last month. The minister, who i...
Party and state leaders and members of the public planted thousands of saplings on National Arbor Day on Saturday, giving a huge boost to the government’s effort to increase forest cover to 70 perce...
