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

Life & Style | A CGI James Dean is cast in new film, sparking an outcry

James Dean hasn’t been alive in 64 years, but the “Rebel Without a Cause” actor has been cast in a new film about the Vietnam War.

World briefs

CHINA A court sentenced nine fentanyl traffickers yesterday in a case that is the culmination of a rare collaboration between Chinese and U.S. law enforcement to crack

The Buzz | Drought parches southern Africa, millions faced with hunger

An estimated 45 million people are threatened with hunger due to a severe drought that is strangling wide stretches of southern Africa. International aid agencies said they

Ivanka Trump meets with female landowners on Morocco trip

Visiting Morocco for the first time, Ivanka Trump received a warm welcome yesterday from women in a region of the country where they are benefiting from changes that

Climate change | Zimbabwe’s severe drought killing elephants, other wildlife

Weak from hunger and thirst, the elephant struggled to reach a pool of water in this African wildlife reserve. But the majestic mammal got stuck in the mud surrounding the

This Day in History | 1972 – Nixon takes second term by landslide

President Richard Nixon has won an overwhelming victory in the US presidential elections for a second term in the White House. He took 61% of the popular vote, compared with 38%

Offbeat | Storm briefly frees historic barge stuck above Niagara Falls

Parks officials are monitoring a century-old grounded barge that briefly broke loose during a storm last week in the river just above Niagara Falls. WGRZ says the rusty iron scow had

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