Argentina | Judge acts on complaint against Saudi prince

Argentine legal authorities took initial action Wednesday to consider a request from Human Rights Watch to prosecute Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for alleged crimes

This Day in History | 1999 – T-bone steaks on sale by Christmas

The beef-on-the-bone ban will be lifted next month, the government has announced. T-bone steaks and ribs of beef should be on sale by 17 December, just over two years

Offbeat | Nelson, Henley to honor Parton at Grammy MusiCares concert

Willie Nelson, Vince Gill, Don Henley and Mavis Staples will perform in tribute to Dolly Parton when she’s honored as the 2019 MusiCares Person of the Year by

The Buzz | Photo thought to be of Vincent van Gogh is his brother

Experts say a photo thought to be of a young Vincent van Gogh has turned out most likely to be of his brother, Theo. The Van Gogh

World Briefs

CHINA said yesterday that it had expressed concerns to the U.S. over the passage of a pair of Navy warships through the Taiwan Strait, days ahead of a

Koreas to jointly survey railways separated since war

South Korea will send trains across the border to the North for the first time in a decade, after recent sanction exemptions paved the way to

Kremlin says it still expects Putin-Trump summit to go ahead

Russia said yesterday it still expects a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump to go ahead as planned. Trump, in an interview with

UN report says fragile climate puts food security at risk

Feeding a hungry planet is growing increasingly difficult as climate change and depletion of land and other resources undermine food systems, the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization said

Brazil | Government backs out of hosting 2019 climate talks

Brazil’s government has backtracked on hosting the United Nations’ annual meeting to address global climate change, just two months after offering to do so. The

Italy | Banks burdened with bad loans may get lift from Brussels

Banks from Greece to Italy that are struggling to get rid of a mountain of bad loans may soon get some help from European Union lawmakers.

This Day in History | 1963 Canadian air disaster kills 118

A Canadian jet has crashed within minutes of take-off, killing all 118 people on board. The Trans-Canada Airlines DC8, bound for Toronto, crashed into a

Offbeat | Steer too beefy to become burgers reprieved to life on farm

Knickers the steer is huge on the internet — for being huge. The black-and-white Holstein Friesian won social media fame and many proclamations of “Holy Cow!” after

The Buzz | Greek court frees cleaner serving 10 years for forged papers

A court in the central Greek city of Larissa has ordered the temporary release from prison of a cleaner jailed for 10 years for forging an elementary school certificate

22 dead in blast outside northern China chemical plant

An explosion outside a chemical plant in northeastern China early yesterday killed at least 22 people and destroyed scores of vehicles, in the latest challenge to efforts to

World Briefs

CHINA Jack Ma, co-founder of China’s most valuable company, was officially confirmed as a member of the Communist Party in a state-backed newspaper recognizing business leaders for their

Mars touchdown: NASA spacecraft survives supersonic plunge

Minutes after touching down on Mars, NASA’s InSight spacecraft sent back a “nice and dirty” snapshot of its new digs. Yet the dust-speckled image looked like

Kremlin warns of flare-up of hostilities in eastern Ukraine

The Kremlin has warned that the martial law that will go into effect in parts of Ukraine yesterday might trigger renewed hostilities in the separatist- held east.

Syria | Hundreds of bodies exhumed from mass grave in Raqqa

Syrian workers have exhumed more than 500 bodies from one of the largest mass graves near the northern city of Raqqa, once the capital of the

Briefs | Drone-car mashup model takes flight

A scale model of a flying drone-car mashup has driven and hovered across an Amsterdam exhibition hall, providing a glimpse of what could be the future of urban

Offbeat | Stranger returns lost wallet and adds extra cash

A South Dakota man has his lost wallet back with some extra cash thanks to a stranger. Hunter Shamatt thought he’d never seen the wallet again

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