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
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
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 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
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
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
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
United States Senator Joe McCarthy has accused more than 200 staff in the State Department of being members of the Communist Party. He made
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 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
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
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
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
Princess Elizabeth has formally proclaimed herself Queen and Head of the Commonwealth and Defender of the Faith. Lords of the Council - numbering 150
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
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
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
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
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
Lawyers for Washington state and Minnesota have told a federal appellate court that restoring President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries
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