World reaction: Condolences and condemnation

World leaders are reacting to the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. Some of their comments: WHITE HOUSE The White House says it has no information to contradict the

France mourns, seeks clues to those behind deadly attacks

Thousands of French troops deployed around Paris yesterday and tourist sites stood shuttered in one of the most visited cities on Earth while investigators questioned the relatives of a suspected

This Day in History | 1983 – England fans rampage in Luxembourg

Denmark’s victory over Greece earlier on Wednesday meant England finished second in their group and do not qualify for the finals next year. The fans were not placated by a 4-0

Offbeat | Police stop Google self-driving car for going too slowly

A car built by Google that drives itself around city streets had a brush with the law for driving too slowly. A police officer in the tech giant’s Silicon Valley hometown

Obama climate plan puts squeeze on coal state governor

Democratic governors are being squeezed by the mandate in President Barack Obama’s climate change plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions — perhaps none more than Montana’s Steve Bullock, the one

Lifeguards get pensions? At age 45? They do in Atlantic City

Joseph D. Rush, Jr. joined the beach patrol in Atlantic City when qualifying tests were conducted in stormy weather at sea to judge an applicant’s mettle, local Republican leaders signed

Paris attacks: Latest video from Fox news

Paris attacks kill 129, shock the world Watch the latest video at

Reactions: Obama vowing to do ‘whatever it takes’ to bring perpetrators to justice

PARIS (AP) — World leaders are reacting to the deadliest violence to strike France since World War II. Some of their comments: PAKISTAN'S FOREIGN MINISTRY Pakistan said it "strongly" condemns the Paris

The Latest: Hollande declares Paris attacks ‘act of war’, 129 killed

PARIS (AP) — The latest on shootings and explosions in Paris. (All times local): 11:10 a.m. French President Francois Hollande, speaking to the nation, said attacks Friday that killed 127 people were

The Buzz | Macau Yearbook English edition launched

The bureau says that “meticulous efforts” have been made to ensure accurate translations of the names of organizations and locations in the edition. The yearbook is priced at MOP 120,

World Briefs

CHINA Communist leaders allow China’s biggest corporate bond default yet in a fresh sign of wrenching economic change as growth slows and Beijing gives market forces a bigger role in

Greece | Clashes briefly break out at general strike march 

Clashes briefly broke out yesterday between riot police and youths in central Athens during the first general strike since the country’s left-led government initially came to power in January. Youths broke away from

Iraq | Kurds reach Sinjar road, cutting IS supply line 

Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by the U.S.-led air campaign, launched an assault yesterday aiming to retake the strategic town of Sinjar, which the Islamic State group overran last year in

Russia | Kremlin-controlled TV airs ‘secret’ plans for nuclear weapon

European Union leader Donald Tusk says saving Europe’s Schengen passport-free travel zone is going to be a “race against time” after Germany, Sweden, Slovenia and other EU nations acted unilaterally.

This Day in History | 1985 Volcano kills thousands in Colombia

The worst-affected was Armero, the province of Tolima’s second largest city, about 50 miles from the Colombian capital, Bogota. Armero, which lay in a valley below the 16,200-foot high (4,937m)

Offbeat | Indonesia uses trained elephants to control forest fires 

Forest fires difficult to control? Call in the pachyderm patrol. Officials in Indonesia are using trained elephants outfitted with water pumps and hoses to help control fires that have claimed

The Buzz | Economists: Trump’s charges against China are obsolete

Donald Trump’s latest attack on China is about three years too old. In a column in The Wall Street Journal, the Republican presidential candidate writes that “the worst of China’s sins”

Organized crime | Lawyer: Chinatown racketeering defendant changed his life

A prime defendant in a San Francisco racketeering case ordered the killing of a rival before taking over his organization in Chinatown and engaging in money laundering and trafficking in

World Briefs

CHINA-N KOREA China’s ambassador to the United Nations is opposing further discussion of North Korea’s human rights situation by the U.N. Security Council, telling reporters that “the Security Council is not

Portugal | Gov’t ousted amid austerity backlash

Anti-austerity lawmakers forced Portugal’s center-right government to resign Tuesday (early yesterday, Macau time) by rejecting its policy proposals at the start of what was supposed to be a second consecutive term in

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