This Day in History | 1955 – US evacuates Pacific islands

The American Navy has moved thousands of people from the Chinese Nationalist Tachen Islands. Communist forces on the Chinese mainland - within firing distance of

Offbeat | In Sweden, television team convicted of human smuggling

Three employees with Swedish broadcaster SVT have been sentenced to community work after being convicted of human smuggling for bringing a 15-year Syrian boy to Sweden during the

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US-CHINA President Donald Trump has issued belated well-wishes to China for the Lunar New Year, saying he hoped to work with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to build a ‘constructive

Berlin Film Festival kicks off with Nazi-jazz film ‘Django’

A French film about a jazz guitar virtuoso who struggled under the Nazis kicked off the Berlin International Film Festival yesterday, the first of the year’s major European

The Buzz | Angola should reduce its budget deficit, IMF says

The government of Angola should reduce the budget deficit in 2017 to 2.25 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and seek a primary non-oil budget surplus of 1

Haiti | Jovenel Moise sworn in as new president

Jovenel Moise was sworn in yesterday as Haiti’s president for the next five years after a bruising two-year election cycle, inheriting a chronically struggling economy and a deeply

France | 17 charged after violent protest rages in Paris suburb

Protesters burned cars and menaced security forces in an eruption of violence in a Paris suburb over a young black man allegedly being raped by a police

UN urges more airline passenger info in anti-terror fight

The U.N. political chief urged the world’s nations to share information about airline passengers as part of a stepped up response to the growth of “transnational

This day in history | 1950 McCarthy launches anti-red crusade

United States Senator Joe McCarthy has accused more than 200 staff in the State Department of being members of the Communist Party. He made

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US-CHINA The Trump administration shouldn’t abandon long-standing U.S. policy on the status of Taiwan, a prominent panel of China specialists said, calling such a move “exceedingly dangerous.” Scholars

The Buzz | EU fines three battery recycling companies for forming cartel

The European Union has fined three battery recycling companies a combined USD72 million for forming a cartel that artificially kept the purchasing price for used car batteries low. EU

France | Presidential hopeful Fillon refuses to drop out

Francois Fillon yesterday defiantly refused to drop out of the race to be France’s next president despite an investigation into whether well-paid political jobs he gave his wife, son

Egypt says remittances, foreign inflows jump after float

Remittances from Egyptians working abroad are surging and foreigners bought more than USD250 million in local assets on Sunday alone, further signs of growing confidence in the

Amnesty: As many as 13,000 hanged in Syria prison since 2011

Syrian authorities have killed as many as 13,000 people — possibly more — since the start of the 2011 uprising in mass hangings at a prison north

This Day in History | 1952 – New Queen proclaimed for UK

Princess Elizabeth has formally proclaimed herself Queen and Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith. Lords of the Council - numbering 150

Offbeat | Cheeto that looks like Harambe sells for USD100,000 on eBay

A Cheeto that bears a resemblance to slain gorilla Harambe has sold for nearly USD100,000 on eBay. Bidding on the cheese snack the seller said he

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TAIWAN Seeking to revive its long-dormant aerospace industry, Taiwan yesterday launched a USD2.1 billion investment in the production of air force jet trainers to be designed and manufactured

The Buzz | Police: Naked man steals taxi, drives through posh park

Police say a naked man stole a taxi and recklessly drove through a crowded park in a posh section of Philadelphia. Police say the man attacked a

Italy | Mafia stronghold of Corleone has new ‘godfather’ saga

The Mafia stronghold of Corleone has produced another godfather saga, but this one is unlikely to end up as a movie. A bishop in Sicily

German conservatives unite behind Merkel for September vote

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Bavarian conservative allies threw their weight yesterday behind her quest for a fourth term, putting aside a long-running argument over her migrant policies as

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