Report | About 4,000 migrants died or missing on way to US

Haydee Posadas had waited eight years for her son to come home. On the last night of her long vigil, she was too agitated to sleep.

US-Mexico | Trump predicts he’ll work well with new president Lopez Obrador

President Donald Trump is congratulating Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on taking office as Mexico’s new president. Trump tweets that Lopez Obrador had a “tremendous political victory

This Day in History | 1950 – Pyongyang taken as UN retreats

Chinese troops have entered the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, as United Nations forces are pushed steadily back towards South Korea. The North Korean People’s Army (NKPA)

Offbeat | Dutch court rejects man’s request to be 20 years younger

Dutch motivational speaker Emile Ratelband may feel like a 49-year-old but according to Dutch law he is still 69. A Dutch court this week rejected Ratelband’s request

World briefs

CAMBODIA’s parliament will consider legislation to allow politicians banned from political activity to have the ban lifted, a measure that long-serving Prime Minister Hun Sen’s government is

The Buzz | Law officer says United Kingdom can cancel Brexit

The UK should be able to unilaterally cancel its withdrawal from the EU, according to a top European law officer, BBC reports. The non-binding opinion was delivered

Media: French PM announces delay to fuel tax hikes

French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced a suspension of fuel tax hikes yesterday, a major U-turn in an effort to appease a protest movement that has

Analysis | For Trump, low drama on trip, signs of acceptance

If there has been a constant to President Donald Trump’s tumultuous first two years in office, it has been that his foreign trips have tended to be

Saudi Arabia | Friend of Khashoggi sues Israeli surveillance company

A Saudi dissident has filed a lawsuit against an Israeli surveillance company, claiming its sophisticated spyware targeted him and helped lead to the killing of his friend,

Royal Mail delivers: Postman, can you take this to heaven?

A 7-year-old Scottish boy who sent a birthday card to his father in heaven has received a heart-warming reply. A Royal Mail official responded to Jase

This Day in History | 2003 – US pulls back from steel trade war

The US President, George W Bush, has withdrawn a punitive tax on imported steel to avoid a damaging trade war between the United States and Europe. The

World briefs

PHILIPPINES President Rodrigo Duterte, whose controversial war on drugs has cost thousands of lives, says he used marijuana to keep awake at a recent regional meeting, but later disavowed

US | Bush mourned as a great statesman, a man of uncommon decency

Former President George H.W. Bush is returning to Washington as a revered political statesman, hailed by leaders across the political spectrum and around the world as

France | Riot debris covers Paris streets; 133 injured, 412 arrested

Paris police said yesterday that 133 people had been injured and 412 had been arrested as protesters trashed the streets of the capital during France’s worst

Dramatic downfall of Carlos Ghosn reverberates in Lebanon

He may have fallen from grace internationally as one of the auto industry’s most powerful leaders, but Carlos Ghosn can count on continued support in

This Day in History | 1989 – Malta summit ends Cold War

The leaders of the two world superpowers, the USA and the USSR, have declared an end to the Cold War after two days of storm-lashed talks at the

Offbeat | DC clerk stalls marriage over ‘foreign’ New Mexico ID card

A District of Columbia clerk and a supervisor refused to accept a New Mexico man’s state driver’s license as he sought a marriage license because she and her

Entertainment | Netflix tiptoes into theaters, demands secrecy

Netflix Inc. has an Oscar contender on its hands with “Roma,” a drama about a Mexico City family from Academy Award- winning director Alfonso Cuaron.

World Briefs

VIETNAM A court in northern Vietnam has jailed two former police generals for protecting a multimillion-dollar online gambling ring as the Communist government steps up its crackdown on

Ukraine urges NATO to deploy ships amid standoff with Russia

The Ukrainian president has urged NATO to deploy naval ships to the Sea of Azov, a proposal that has been sharply criticized by Russia as a

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