US playwright Arthur Miller has been convicted of contempt of Congress. The conviction relates to an investigation last year by the House of Representatives’ Un-American Activities
SOUTH CHINA SEA The Philippine government has quietly protested after Chinese ships deployed a helicopter that flew “dangerously close” to a Philippine navy boat carrying supplies to Filipino
British police have arrested an intruder who scaled scaffolding and got onto the roof of Parliament. London’s Metropolitan Police force says officers were called late yesterday morning “to
Nearly two years after a trip to meet the woman he loved turned into an imprisonment in a Venezuelan jail, an exhausted but grateful Utah man arrived
Gaza militants fired more than 25 mortar shells toward communities in southern Israel yesterday, the Israeli military said, in what appeared to be the largest single barrage
English musician Sting sang “My One and Only Love” at Brown University after he and his wife Trudie Styler accepted honorary degrees. Brown presented them with the degrees
Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas has been jailed for six months in the country’s biggest sleaze scandal in recent history. The 78-year-old judge and close
US-CHINA The Trump administration has renewed its threat to place 25 percent tariffs on USD50 billion of Chinese goods in retaliation for what it says are China’s
Researchers and federal authorities are finding what they say is an alarming increase in the use of a powerful pesticide at illegal marijuana farms hidden on public land
A knife-wielding man stabbed two police officers yesterday in the Belgian city of Liege, stole their weapons and shot them and a bystander dead in an attack
French President Emmanuel Macron met yesterday with a migrant from Mali lauded as a hero for scaling an apartment building to save a young child
The man tapped to head a neutral government in Italy after two populists failed in their bid is a former official at the International Monetary Fund
After legalizing abortion and same-sex marriage in recent times, Portuguese lawmakers will decide today on another issue that has brought a confrontation between faith and politics
An Indiana congresswoman says a teacher who stopped a school shooting has been released from a hospital. U.S. Rep Susan Brooks says she met over the weekend
Manchester United have become the first English club to win the European Cup beating Portuguese side Benfica by four goals to one. Ten years after the Munich
SOUTH CHINA SEA The Philippine foreign secretary said yesterday that China has been notified of “red lines” in the South China Sea, including construction activities at a disputed
Subtropical Storm Alberto headed toward anticipated landfall sometime yesterday on the northern Gulf Coast, where white sandy beaches emptied of their usual Memorial Day crowds. And just as the
In the end, it wasn’t even close. Irish voters — young and old, male and female, farming types and city-bred folk — endorsed expunging an abortion ban
Supporters of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party marched through central Berlin to protest against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government yesterday, while a heavy police
Heavy fighting in Yemen between pro-government forces and Shiite rebels has killed more than 150 people in the last four days, Yemeni officials and witnesses said yesterday.
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