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CHINA warned other countries yesterday against threatening its security in the South China Sea after an international tribunal handed the Philippines a victory. Beijing said it could declare an air

Innovation | Nissan keeps self driving simple, not quite autonomous

Self-driving cars may be all the rage, but when it’s a real product, coming soon from Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co., the technology gets toned down. And so don’t expect

Survey | Europeans worry migrants may increase terror threat

The refugee crisis and the threat of terrorism in Europe are very much related to one another in the minds of many Europeans, according to a survey conducted across the

Nobel winner Malala visits world’s largest refugee camp

Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai is spending her 19th birthday in Kenya yesterday visiting the world’s largest refugee camp to draw attention to the global refugee crisis, especially as Dadaab camp

20 dead in train crash in southern Italy

Two Italian commuter trains collided head-on yesterday in the southern region of Puglia, killing at least 20 people and injuring scores more, officials said. At least two passengers were pulled

Iraq | Suicide bombing in Baghdad Shiite district kills 12

A suicide car bomb ripped through an outdoor market in a Shiite-dominated northeastern district of Baghdad on yesterday, killing at least 12 people, officials said, as government forces deployed across

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

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