Papua New Guinea on hunt for 275 cars missing after APEC

A Papua New Guinea police superintendent yesterday  was hot on the trail of one of the many high-end cars he’s trying to recover after an international summit.

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PHILIPPINES The head of a Philippine online news site who was arrested by government agents in a libel case accused President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration yesterday of acting like

Iran | Supreme leader says any talks with US can only ‘harm’

Iran’s supreme leader said yesterday that any negotiations with the U.S. “will bring nothing but material and spiritual harm” in remarks just ahead of an American-led meeting on the

Dutch fishermen try to avert EU ban on electric shocks

Dutch fishermen protested Tuesday outside parliament in a last-ditch attempt to avert a European Union ban on the practice of using electric shocks to stun fish before

Brazil | Slow-going restoration at fire-gutted museum

Five months after fire gutted Brazil’s 200-year-old National Museum, the site that once held some of the nation’s greatest treasures remains a ruin of scorched walls, twisted

Spain | Budget defeat puts center-left government on ropes

Catalan separatist and right-wing lawmakers in the Spanish parliament’s lower house rejected yesterday the ruling Socialist government’s 2019 budget plan, likely paving the way for

Swiss set quotas for UK citizens in event of no-deal Brexit

British citizens hoping to work in Switzerland will face immigration quotas, just like people from countries such as Canada or Japan, in the event of a cliff-edge Brexit.

This Day in History | 1945 Thousands of bombs destroy Dresden

British and US bombers have dropped hundreds of thousands of explosives on the German city of Dresden. The city is reported to be a vital command

Offbeat | Gucci creative head breaks silence over ‘blackface’ sweater

Gucci’s creative director broke his silence Tuesday over an USD890 sweater that resembled blackface, saying racism was never his intention. Alessandro Michele, a design force at

The Buzz | Purse lost in school in the 1950s to be reunited with owner

A purse containing a prom invitation, photos and other items from 1950s America will be returned to its now 82-year-old owner after workers found it while demolishing part

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EAST TIMOR An American missionary who was a hero in East Timor for founding children’s shelters that have operated for more than two decades has been expelled from

USA | Budget deal allows far less money than Trump wanted for wall

Congressional negotiators reached agreement to prevent a government shutdown and finance construction of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, overcoming a late-stage hang-up over immigration enforcement issues

EU said to mull response to China hacking after UK report

European Union member states are considering a possible joint response to cyber-attacks allegedly conducted by a Chinese state-linked hacker group after the U.K. presented evidence last

This Day in History | 2001 Landmark Aids case begins in Scotland

Stephen Kelly, 33, is charged with taking no precautions when having sex with a former girlfriend despite knowing he was HIV-positive. Mr Kelly contracted HIV

Offbeat | Nielsen says just under 20 million watched Grammy Awards

Nearly 20 million people watched Childish Gambino and Kacey Musgraves earn four trophies each at the Grammy Awards, about the same audience as the annual music show had

Film academy reveals which four Oscars will be given off air

The film academy has finally revealed the Oscar categories that will be presented during the commercial breaks of this year’s broadcast in an attempt to

The Buzz | Vietnam foreign minister arrives in North Korea

Vietnam’s foreign minister has arrived in North Korea ahead of a planned summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in

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VENEZUELA’s opposition is calling supporters into the streets across the country in a campaign to break the military’s support of President Nicolas Maduro. CHINA Members of

Exclusive | Undercover spy exposed in NYC was one of many

When mysterious operatives lured two cybersecurity researchers to meetings at luxury hotels over the past two months, it was an apparent bid to discredit their research about

This Day in History | 1954: New authority for atomic energy

A new body has been established to control the production and development of atomic energy in the UK. The Atomic Energy Authority Bill was introduced in the

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