Mayor Ed Lee, who oversaw a technology-driven economic boom in San Francisco that brought with it sky-high housing prices despite his lifelong commitment to economic equality, died suddenly
An American scientist who shared this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine bluntly criticized political developments at home in his address at the awards’ gala banquet, saying that
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the European Union yesterday to back a new U.S. peace initiative in the Middle East, after President Donald Trump’s unilateral
Princess Anne today became Mrs Timothy Laurence after a small family wedding in Scotland. The 42-year-old arrived at Crathie church near Balmoral Castle accompanied by her
PHILIPPINES President Rodrigo Duterte asked Congress yesterday to extend the martial law he declared in the country’s south by one year to ensure the “total eradication” of pro-Islamic
A trial began yesterday in Turkey against dozens of suspects, including the alleged shooter in the New Year’s Eve attack that left 39 people dead in Istanbul.
A man with a pipe bomb strapped to his body with Velcro and zip ties set off the crude device in the subway near Times Square yesterday,
Arab foreign ministers yesterday demanded that the United States rescind President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, calling it a “grave” development that
Egypt on Saturday announced the discovery of two small ancient tombs in the southern city Luxor dating back some 3,500 years and hoped it will help the
Italy’s governing Democrats led a rally Saturday to warn about fascism making a comeback in the nation that once suffered under fascist dictator Benito Mussolini and which
President Hassan Rouhani says Iran is ready to restore ties with Saudi Arabia if it stops bombing Yemen and cuts its alleged ties with Israel. In a speech
An Icelandic gunboat has opened fire on unarmed British fishery support vessels in the North Atlantic Sea, it is reported. The violent clash left the
Police say a getaway car ran out of gas after an armed robbery near Atlanta, leading to the speedy arrest of two suspects. Gwinnett County police Cpl.
The Hong Kong Immigration Department on Friday said a bogus marriage syndicate was smashed in an operation in Hong Kong last week, when five people were arrested.
Emergency room workers insisted they were just doing their jobs on that tragic October night as survivors of the mass shooting in Las Vegas expressed
NEPAL An alliance of two major communist parties, one Maoist and the other Marxist-Leninist, is leading parliamentary election results in Nepal and could be forming
The first official visit by a Turkish president to Greece for six decades got off to a tense start yesterday, with Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeating comments that
Former Beatle John Lennon has been shot dead by an unknown gunman who opened fire outside the musician’s New York apartment. The 40-year-old was shot several times
A former radio DJ who was ordered to pay a symbolic USD1 to Taylor Swift for groping her at a photo op says he mailed her
HONG KONG A judge put off sentencing yesterday for young democracy leader Joshua Wong in a contempt case stemming from 2014 protests in the semiautonomous Chinese city. The
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