Hong Kong raids newspaper offices, arrests editor, executives under security law
June 17, 2021
The raid on Apple Daily and the arrests show how dramatically space is shrinking for the city’s once-free press.…
EXPLAINER: The significance of China’s new space station
June 17, 2021
Adding a crew to China’s new orbiting space station is another major advance for the burgeoning space power…
With election fraud claims, Peru’s Keiko Fujimori takes a page from the Trump playbook. She’s not alone.
June 16, 2021
Fujimori’s approach, following Trump’s effort to discredit the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election over false fraud claims, could signal the emergence of a trend.…
Ivory Coast’s ex-president to return 10 years after arrest
June 16, 2021
Former President Laurent Gbagbo is returning home to Ivory Coast for the first time in nearly a decade…
US and Mexico seek ways to do more on irregular immigration
June 16, 2021
In consecutive visits this month, Vice President Kamala Harris and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have conveyed to the most important U.S. partner that the Biden administration is taking a more nuanced approach to immigration than its predecessor, but still asking what more Mexico can do…
Live updates: As Biden meets Putin in Geneva, Russian leader says he hopes summit will be productive
June 16, 2021
No major breakthroughs are expected from the meeting, but there are hopes that at least ambassadors will be returned to their posts.…
COVID hits Ecuador doctors who delayed wedding to treat sick
June 16, 2021
They were a pair of young doctors in love who put off marriage to save lives…
Israel to halt nighttime ‘mapping’ of Palestinian homes
June 16, 2021
The Israeli military says it is reining in a controversial practice of conducting late-night raids of Palestinian homes in the West Bank that are aimed at gathering information about the houses and their inhabitants…
Covid-19 live updates: United States surpasses 600,000 coronavirus deaths
June 16, 2021
The nationwide death rate has dropped sharply since vaccinations became widely available.…
Putin’s rocky relationship with American presidents
June 16, 2021
Ahead of Biden’s meeting with Putin, here’s a look at how other U.S. presidents have gotten along with the Russian leader.…
South Africa marks anniversary of Soweto student protests
June 16, 2021
South Africa’s high rate of unemployment has cast a pall over Youth Day, the holiday honoring the 45th anniversary of the Soweto student protests which played a key role in ending apartheid, the previous regime of racist, minority rule…
Leaders of Islamist group in Tanzania freed, charges dropped
June 16, 2021
Leaders of an Islamist group that advocated for independence for Tanzania’s semiautonomous region of Zanzibar have seen terrorism-related charges against them dropped…
China offers glimpse of Tibetan life without the Dalai Lama
June 16, 2021
A brisk wind ruffles yellow prayer flags as dozens of Tibetans circle a shrine in a time-honored Buddhist ritual…
Malaysian court rejects coroner’s verdict in teen’s death
June 16, 2021
A Malaysian high court says a coroner erred in ruling that the death of a French-Irish teenager whose body was found near a jungle resort was likely due to a misadventure that didn’t involve other people…
British lawyer Karim Khan sworn in as ICC’s chief prosecutor
June 16, 2021
British lawyer Karim Khan has been sworn in as the new chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court…
What offenses did Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, commit in Britain? New report forces police to review claims.
June 16, 2021
Scotland Yard said it would “review” allegations of serious sexual assault and trafficking of girls and women in Britain.…
Israeli troops kill Palestinian attack suspect in West Bank
June 16, 2021
The Israeli military has shot and killed a Palestinian woman who it said tried to ram her car into a group of soldiers guarding a West Bank construction site…
Lebanon’s crisis threatens one of its few unifiers, the army
June 16, 2021
Lebanon’s economic meltdown threatens to undermine its military, a force that Lebanese have long considered an anchor for stability…
An unmarked gravesite drags a not-so-distant horror back into the spotlight. Is this a real reckoning?
June 16, 2021
The discovery of the remains of 215 children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School draws new attention to Canada’s treatment of First Nations people — for now, at least.…
Quake shakes part of east Indonesia, people warned off beach
June 16, 2021
A strong, shallow undersea earthquake has shaken parts of eastern Indonesia, cracking some walls and sending panicked coastal residents in Maluku province to higher ground…
N Korea’s Kim looks much thinner, causing health speculation
June 16, 2021
The last time Kim Jong Un faced rumors about his health, it was because the North Korean leader walked with a cane, missed an important state anniversary or panted for breath…
China set to send first crew to new space station Thursday
June 16, 2021
The three members of the first crew to be sent to China’s new space station say they’re eager to get to work…
North Korea’s Kim calls food situation ‘tense’ as reports of shortages mount
June 16, 2021
But Kim Jong Un says industrial production has risen this year, after a pandemic-induced slump in 2020.…
Covid-19 live updates: California officially reopens its economy
June 15, 2021
California lifted most of its pandemic restrictions Tuesday, such as physical distancing and capacity limits in businesses.…
Boris Johnson delays end of England’s coronavirus restrictions as delta variant cases climb
June 15, 2021
June 21 was supposed to mark England’s “freedom day,” when the country’s remaining coronavirus restrictions would end, but the government has opted to keep them in place.…
Israelis march in east Jerusalem in test for new government
June 15, 2021
Hundreds of Israeli ultranationalists paraded through east Jerusalem in a show of force that threatened to spark renewed violence just weeks after a war with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip…
Poll finds dramatic rise in Palestinian support for Hamas
June 15, 2021
A new poll finds a dramatic surge in Palestinian support for Hamas following last month’s Gaza war…
Slovakia court tosses acquittals in reporter’s slaying
June 15, 2021
An appeals court in Slovakia has dismissed a lower court’s acquittal of a businessman accused of masterminding the 2018 slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancée…
New Zealand will apologize to Pacific Islanders for ‘dehumanizing’ dawn immigration raids, Ardern says
June 15, 2021
Armed police officers woke up families in the middle of the night to demand proof of citizenship, while people who did not look White were told to carry identification at all times and would be randomly stopped on the street.…
Australia’s highest court upholds foreign interference law
June 15, 2021
Australia’s highest court has rejected a challenge to foreign interference laws in a case that involved a U.S. conservative political organization and free speech arguments…
Enrique Bolaños, former Nicaragua president, dies at 93
June 15, 2021
Former Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolaños Geyer, a businessman who led the country from 2002 to 2007, saw his predecessor and old running mate locked up for corruption and pushed for the country’s economic development, has died…
Ethiopia envoy: Eritrean troops in Tigray will `leave soon’
June 15, 2021
Ethiopia’s U_N_ ambassador says Eritrean troops who have been fighting with his country’s forces in a war against the Tigray region’s fugitive leaders “will definitely leave soon.”…
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June 15, 2021
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Donated US vaccines arrive for Mexican border cities
June 15, 2021
Mexico has received 1.35 million doses of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccines donated by the United States…
Report: Gang violence displaces thousands in Haiti’s capital
June 15, 2021
A UNICEF report says that escalating gang violence has displaced nearly 8,500 women and children in Haiti’s capital in the past two weeks…
Mexico’s Zapatista rebels complain they can’t get passports
June 15, 2021
Indigenous rebels of Mexico’s Zapatista movement are complaining that the Mexican government has made it hard for them to get passports to attend meetings in Spain set to mark the 500th anniversary of the 1519-1521 conquest of Mexico…
Saudi Arabia executes young Shiite man for violent rebellion
June 15, 2021
Saudi Arabia executed a young man who was convicted on charges stemming from his participation in an anti-government rebellion by minority Shiites…
Biden, E.U. end 17-year Airbus-Boeing trade dispute, seek to calm relations after Trump
June 15, 2021
Biden met E.U. leaders in Brussels Tuesday, but all the Trump-era disputes won’t be resolved immediately.…
Sri Lanka seeks UN help in assessing damage from ship fire
June 15, 2021
Sri Lanka’s government is seeking help from the United Nations and other countries in assessing the environmental damage caused by a fire on a container ship carrying chemicals that is sinking off its capital…
Putin swaggers toward summit with Biden as an old hand at dueling with the West
June 15, 2021
In an NBC television interview ahead of the Geneva meeting, the Russian president was dismissive and nonchalant about issues of U.S. concern.…
In Oman, fungal infection detected in some COVID-19 patients
June 15, 2021
Oman says its doctors have detected a potentially fatal fungal infection afflicting some coronavirus patients…
Suicide bomber kills at least 15 at Somalia military site
June 15, 2021
Police in Somalia say at least 15 people were killed and more than 20 others wounded when a suicide bomber attacked a military training center in the capital, Mogadishu…
Nicaragua’s government has arrested a dozen opposition leaders. Their relatives don’t know where they are.
June 15, 2021
As President Daniel Ortega’s government has arrested a dozen opposition leaders in recent weeks, many of their relatives say they don’t know where they’re being held and have been denied visits.…
Famous German boys’ choir to add separate choir for girls
June 15, 2021
One of Germany’s most famous Catholic boys’ choirs plans to establish a separate choral group for girls for the first time in its more than 1,000-year history…
Anger and backlash in Britain as government confirms four more weeks of coronavirus restrictions
June 15, 2021
Footage showed BBC journalist Nick Watt being chased and verbally abused by anti-lockdown protesters in London ahead of the announcement.…
UAE-backed Yemen leader says his troops at island air base
June 15, 2021
A militia leader who is the nephew of Yemen’s late strongman president has acknowledged that his Emirati-backed troops are stationed on an island in a crucial maritime chokepoint where a mysterious air base is now under construction…
Austrian tells police he killed a man to get into prison
June 15, 2021
Police in Austria say a 29-year-old man arrested on suspicion of stabbing another man to death told officers he had planned the killing for weeks in order to be imprisoned…
Attacks target polio teams in east Afghanistan, 5 killed
June 15, 2021
Afghan officials say that gunmen targeted members of polio vaccination teams in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least five staffers…
Ukraine’s forgotten veterans lean on one another to rebuild their lives
June 15, 2021
Photographer Sandro Maddalena documented the trauma and recovery of Ukrainian veterans as hostilities with Russia continue.…
Philippines: Int’l court probe of drug killings is insulting
June 15, 2021
A spokesman says Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will never cooperate with a International Criminal Court investigation into the thousands of killings under his anti-drugs crackdown…