Meet the witnesses: Diplomats start off impeachment hearings

Diplomats and career government officials, they’re little known outside professional circles, but they’re about to become household names testifying in the House impeachment inquiry .

Turkey starts returning IS fighters, deports US national

Turkey yesterday deported a U.S. citizen who fought for the Islamic State group as the government began a new push to send back captured foreign fighters to

Brexit Party won’t challenge Conservatives in UK vote

In a major shift, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage says his party will not run against Conservative candidates in almost half of the U.K. seats

Offbeat | Sweet of taste of freedom: Chocolate Berlin Wall destroyed

So this is what freedom tastes like. A French chocolate sculptor celebrated the 30th anniversary Saturday of the opening of the Berlin Wall by taking a hammer to a

This Day in History | 1997 – ‘Great Train Robber’ escapes extradition again

The so-called ‘Great Train Robber’, Ronnie Biggs, is celebrating after Brazil’s Supreme Court rejected a British request to extradite him. The court in Rio de Janeiro ruled that because

Life & Style | Pete Doherty arrested again in Paris, for violent behavior

Paris authorities say British singer Pete Doherty has been arrested for the second time in the space of a week. The Paris prosecutor’s office said

World briefs

MYANMAR was accused yesterday of genocide at the U.N.’s highest court for its campaign against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, as lawyers asked the International Court of

The Buzz | UBS fined by Hong Kong for a decade of overcharging clients

Hong Kong regulators fined UBS Group AG 400 million Hong Kong dollars ($51 million) for overcharging global wealth management clients during almost a decade and flagged concerns about

UN watchdog: Iran’s violations of nuclear deal increasing

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog reported yesterday that its inspectors have discovered uranium particles of a man-made origin “at a location in Iran not declared to the

New challenge for Bolivian president as police abandon posts

Police guards outside Bolivia’s presidential palace abandoned their posts Saturday, increasing pressure on President Evo Morales as he seeks to curb nationwide unrest after a

Spain’s national vote an epic struggle between left, right

As Spaniards voted yesterday in the country’s fourth election in as many years, a leading leftist party pledged to help the incumbent Socialists in hopes of staving

Offbeat | Lobsterman rescues deer trapped in water off Maine coast

A Maine lobsterman hauled in an unusual catch 5 miles off the coast — a live deer. Ren Dorr says he was setting traps when he saw a

This Day in History | 1965 – Rhodesia breaks from UK

The Rhodesian Government, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, has illegally severed its links with the British Crown. Mr Smith made the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) after

Life & Style | Woody Allen and Amazon end legal battle

Woody Allen and Amazon.com have ended their legal battle. The filmmaker had sued Amazon in February after the online giant ended his 2017 contract without ever releasing a

World briefs

JAPAN Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako waved and smiled from an open car in a parade yesterday marking Naruhito’s enthronement as more than 100,000 delighted well-wishers cheered,

The Buzz | Watergate redux? Trump impeachment inquiry heads for live TV

Back in 1973, tens of millions of Americans tuned in to what Variety called “the hottest daytime soap opera” — the Senate Watergate hearings that eventually led to 

Brexit | Labor party dissent: Ex-lawmaker says Corbyn unfit to lead

London A former member of the Labour Party’s inner circle urged the public yesterday to vote for Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Britain’s Dec. 12 election,

Pompeo meets US troops, German leaders to start 2-day visit

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with American troops in southern Germany yesterday, starting a trip based around the anniversary of the fall of the

Offbeat | Alaska university taking PB&J as payment for parking tickets

What a lip-smacking offer! Anyone with unpaid parking fines at the University of Alaska Anchorage campus has the option to reduce or cover the cost of their

This Day in History | 2000 – Bush and Gore fight to the finish

The result of the American presidential election is still hanging in the balance hours after the last polls officially closed. Votes are still being counted in the

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