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
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,
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
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
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
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
President Barack Obama embarked yesterday on a five-day, two-country mission to buck up a beleaguered Europe and brush back an aggressive Moscow on what is expected to be his last
Summoned before Congress, FBI Director James Comey yesterday strongly defended the decision to not prosecute Hillary Clinton over her private email setup. He said there was no evidence that she
The latest story about boy wizard Harry Potter has broken all publishing records. The fourth instalment of JK Rowling’s series has been released simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic with
An inmate who escaped a northwestern Arkansas jail, showed up at a nearby bar a week later, ordered a beer and declared he was turning himself in. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports
The Philippine president in televised remarks has warned a Chinese drug suspect that he may die at the Manila airport if he returns from abroad, underscoring the brazen rhetoric and
TAIWAN A powerful typhoon approaches eastern Taiwan, churning up huge waves and wind that ground fishing boats, commercial ships and planes. CHINA Water levels start to recede in central and eastern
Britain's decision to go to war in Iraq was a failure born of flawed intelligence, lack of foresight and "wholly inadequate" planning, an official inquiry concluded yesterday in a report
Former Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones drowned after taking a cocktail of drink and drugs, an inquest has been told. A verdict of death by misadventure was recorded by the coroner,
Visitors to the Los Angeles Zoo may have been greeted by some misinformation recently, courtesy of a comedian who posted fake facts about animals around the zoo. Jeff Wysaski puts up
The leader of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia says divorced and remarried parishioners should abstain from sex and live “like brother and sister” if they want to receive Holy
Thousands of people erupted in party mood yesterday, dousing each other with wine and singing and dancing in the streets of this northern Spanish city to celebrate the start of
CHINA-UN A U.N. panel says China has arbitrarily detained an American woman in violation of international human rights norms, bringing her case back into public attention ahead of a visit
Soaring over Jupiter’s poles, a NASA spacecraft arrived at the solar system’s largest planet on a mission to peek behind the cloud tops. The final leg of the five-year voyage ended yesterday
An El Al flight from New York that was escorted yesterday by military jets in Europe following a bomb threat landed safely in Israel. El Al President David Maimon said Flight
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