This Day in History | 1985 – Live Aid makes millions for Africa

The Live Aid concert for the starving in Africa has raised triple the £10m expected. And as the London event draws to a close at Wembley Stadium, Britain had contributed £1,100,000

India | PM calls emergency meeting as Kashmir death toll rises

India’s prime minister called an emergency meeting yesterday over escalating anti-India protests in Kashmir, where at least 28 people have died in clashes and hospitals are struggling with hundreds of

The Buzz | US report accuses UK officials of hampering HSBC probe

A U.S. report is accusing British officials of hampering a probe into HSBC, one of the world’s largest banks. The U.S. House Financial Services Committee said Monday it released the report

World briefs

EU-CHINA European Union and Chinese leaders kick off a summit yesterday at a time of global uncertainty over Brexit and pressure from European companies for better access to China’s market. EU leaders

US 2016 election campaign | NAFTA a sore spot for some Democrats on Clinton

Michigan is trickier than it may appear for Hillary Clinton, a Democrat whose party’s presidential nominees have carried the struggling manufacturing hub for decades. Bernie Sanders beat her in the state’s

Rights group says Saudi-led coalition damaged Yemen economy

The Saudi-led coalition targeting Yemen’s Shiite rebels has caused extensive damage to the impoverished Arabian Peninsula country’s economic infrastructure in the year-long air campaign, an international rights group said yesterday. Human

Spain | Hundreds attend funeral of gored bullfighter

Hundreds of people joined family, friends and members of Spain’s bullfighting world for a funeral Mass yesterday for bullfighter Victor Barrio who was fatally gored in a bullring this past

This Day in History | 1990 – Yeltsin resignation splits Soviet Communists

The populist politician and president of the Russian parliament, Boris Yeltsin, has resigned from the Soviet Communist Party. The resignation has also led to a declaration from the small but influential

Offbeat | Spain calls in UK ambassador to protest Gibraltar incident

Spain’s Foreign Ministry has called in the British ambassador to protest what it described as reckless behavior by a Gibraltar police boat patrol toward a Spanish police vessel. In a statement,

The Buzz | Two Guantanamo detainees sent to Serbia in latest releases

A Tajik and a Yemeni national each held for roughly 14 years at Guantanamo Bay have been freed and sent to the Balkan nation of Serbia, the U.S. Department of

World Briefs

CHINA has intensified the drumbeat of its opposition to an international tribunal’s ruling expected today that could threaten its expansive claims in the South China Sea. The Hague-based tribunal will

Algeria officialdom threatens nation’s noisy, tell-all media

Algeria’s independent media is noisy, unsparing and often acerbic — and authorities think that’s a problem. Algerian officials are going after the independent media for unnecessarily “setting off alarms” and “darkening”

Berlin leftist rioting leaves 120 officers injured

Police say more than 120 officers were injured and 86 demonstrators have been detained during leftist riots in the German capital which police call “the most aggressive and violent protests

Police agencies on edge, on guard amid heightened threats

Police agencies across the U.S. are on edge and on guard after receiving threats and calls for violence against them on social media in the aftermath of the killings of

Renewed fighting breaks out across South Sudan capital

Renewed gunfights broke out across South Sudan’s capital yesterday between forces loyal to the president and those of the vice president, officials said yesterday, causing widespread casualties and raising fears that the

This Day in History | 1995 – Serbs overrun UN ‘safe haven’

The Bosnian Serb army has seized control of the United Nations “safe area” of Srebrenica after Dutch peacekeepers were forced to withdraw. Some 1,500 Serb troops overran the lightly-armed Dutch troops,

Offbeat | Russian tourists hit the beaches of Turkey as ties improve

Turkey’s state-run media says the first plane in months carrying Russian tourists to Turkey has arrived in the southern beach resort of Antalya as tense relations between the two countries

World Briefs

SOUTH CHINA SEA A landmark ruling on an arbitration case filed by the Philippines that seeks to strike down China’s expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea will be

2 Spaniards gored, 3 injured in Pamplona bull run 

Two Spanish men were in serious condition after being gored during the fourth day of the running of the bulls at Pamplona’s San Fermin festival yesterday, officials said. Three others

Nature | VW said to weigh battery partnership with Panasonic, LG Chem

Volkswagen AG is considering teaming up with electric-car battery specialists such as LG Chem Ltd. or Panasonic Corp. as it overhauls its strategy to emerge from the diesel-emissions scandal, according to people familiar

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