The Buzz | China says pastor suspected of misappropriating funds

China’s state-sanctioned Protestant church body says a pastor in a province where authorities have been cracking down on churches is under investigation for suspected misappropriation of funds. The Zhejiang province branch

Cuba says it will launch broadband home internet project

State telecommunications company ETECSA said it would allow Cubans in Old Havana, the colonial center that is one of the island’s main tourist attractions, to order service through fiber optic

World Briefs

THAILAND says it has accelerated its fight against human trafficking and unregulated fishing. Bangkok says in the past eight months it has investigated 36 cases, arrested 102 suspects and rescued

For Brazil’s rich and poor, disparate response to Zika

Two Brazilian women, two pregnancies, one nightmare. But two very different stories. Regina de Lima and Tainara Lourenco became pregnant at a scary moment — the dawn of an extraordinary Zika

USA Elections | Democratic, Republican races tight as 2016 voting begins

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders hope to translate voter enthusiasm into victories in Iowa caucuses, as Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton bank on sophisticated get-­out-the vote operations. The caucuses

This Day in History | 1990 De Klerk dismantles apartheid in South Africa

In a televised speech at the opening of Parliament in Cape Town, President FW de Klerk announced restrictions would be lifted on the ANC, the smaller Pan Africanist Congress and

Offbeat | UK police arrest suspect with 38 phones in his trousers

British police have arrested a suspected thief with 38 mobile phones stuffed down his trousers. West Midlands Police say they believe the man stole the phones from concertgoers at a show

The Buzz | Woman with pro-independence passport stickers barred

A Taiwanese woman was refused entry into Macau last week due to the fact that her passport was decorated with “Republic of Taiwan” stickers that advocate Taiwan’s independence. Apple Daily reported

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CHINA strongly condemned the United States after a U.S. warship deliberately sailed near one of the Beijing-controlled islands in the hotly contested South China Sea to exercise freedom of navigation and challenge China’s vast

Syrian opposition arrives for peace talks with Assad regime

The latest bid to end five years of war in Syria gathered some momentum as the main opposition group arrived in Geneva for United Nations-­sponsored talks, after lifting its threat

UN working group suggests US work on racial reconciliation

The United States should consider reparations to African-American descendants of slavery, establish a national human rights commission and publicly acknowledge that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity,

This Day in History | 2003 Columbia shuttle disintegrates killing seven

This is the first time there has been an accident on landing in the 42 years of American space flight. President George Bush told a nation in shock: “The Columbia

Offbeat | Group says British pilot killed by poachers in Tanzania

Elephant poachers in Tanzania fired on a helicopter on an anti-poaching mission, killing the British pilot, a conservation group said. Roger Gower was shot on Friday while flying on a

Uganda: Little concern, impact of Zika virus in Zika Forest

Birds sing in the canopy and a leopard roams the thick undergrowth of this rainforest in Uganda, where the mosquito-­borne Zika virus was discovered almost 70 years ago. Yet while

As peace nears, renewed push to free Colombian rebel in US

As negotiations to end Colombia’s half-century conflict close in on a final deal, attention is turning to the fate of an aging bank manager-­turned leftist rebel who is being held at a

The Buzz | US: 19 arrested in connection with drug, gambling ring

Nineteen people from four states were arrested in connection with an international drug trafficking and illegal gambling ring that authorities allege was headed by a former college athlete. Arrests were

Norwegian preschool drops carnival over gender stereotypes

Renate Kvivesen, the principal of the Vikaasen preschool near Trondheim, told The Associated Press that “we don’t think it fits our values to host an event where children feel it’s

World Briefs

SOUTH KOREA Samsung Electronics reports a bigger-than-expected decline in fourth quarter earnings as its mainstay smartphone and semiconductor business suffered from weakening global demand for consumer electronics. INDONESIA's state-owned telecommunications company

Trump looks to grab attention as Republican rivals debate

Republican presidential candidates took to the debate stage this morning (Macau time) absent their front-runner, billionaire Donald Trump, who is instead seeking to starve his rivals of attention at a

Car-making deals, protests greet Iranian president in Paris

  France welcomed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani yesterday with a long-term car-making agreement and pledges to boost trade now that a diplomatic deal is easing nuclear tensions. Yet clouds hung over the

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