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Macau,
TAP Air Portugal’s new owners said yesterday they intend to expand operations to 10 more U.S. destinations and eight more in Brazil, while bringing more passengers from those countries into
PAKISTAN A spokesman for the international aid group Save the Children says Pakistan’s government has allowed it to reopen its locked offices. PHILIPPINES Two Philippine soldiers are killed and three others
France summoned the U.S. ambassador to the Foreign Ministry and the French president held a high-level emergency meeting yesterday following revelations by WikiLeaks that the U.S. National Security Agency had
In a sweeping victory for Dutch environmental activists that could have global repercussions, a court ordered the government yesterday to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25 percent by
The United States President Harry S Truman has gone a step further and urged western nations to go out to Korea and help repel the communist invasion. “By their actions
A Syrian official says the Islamic State group has destroyed two mausoleums in the historic central town of Palmyra. Maamoun Abdulkarim, the head of the Antiquities and Museums Department in
Facebook is now bigger than Wal-Mart, at least when it comes to its value on the stock market. The world’s biggest online social network knocked the world’s largest retailer out
Syrian Kurdish fighters and their allies yesterday captured a town once held by the Islamic State group, inching closer to the main IS stronghold in Syria and the de facto
A Rwandan military general was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport and will appear in court later this week, British police said yesterday, prompting an angry response from Rwandan leaders. Police said
For 15 years, South Carolina lawmakers refused to consider removing the Confederate flag from Statehouse grounds, insisting renewing the debate would unnecessarily expose divisive wounds. But opinions changed within five days
Ms Ride, a former tennis champion, decided to become an astronaut in 1977 after she saw a Nasa advertisement in the campus newsletter while studying English and physics. She was one
Sixty-six surfers have set a world record for most people riding a board at once. Surf champions and local heroes were among those who hung loose on a custom built, 42-foot
Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was acquitted in France on pimping charges this month, but his legal headaches may not be over. While Strauss-Kahn will try to put the
AFGHANISTAN A Taliban suicide bomber strikes the entrance to the Afghan parliament and gunmen try to storm the heavily guarded compound, setting off a gun battle with police that leaves
A much-awaited United Nations report into the 2014 Gaza war released yesterday found that both Israel and the Palestinians may have committed war crimes. The commission said it gathered “substantial information
The Al-Jazeera journalist who was detained in Berlin on an Egyptian arrest warrant has been released from custody, a spokesman for the Berlin prosecutors’ office said yesterday. Stefan Stoehr said Ahmed
The European Union launched a naval operation yesterday to try to stop human-traffickers from bringing migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe in unseaworthy boats, a lucrative and at times deadly
Eurozone finance ministers broke off talks yesterday without an agreement on Greece’s bailout, saying they aim to reach a deal later this week that might keep the country from defaulting and
It is the second time Pope John Paul II - who was formerly Archbishop of Krakow - has returned to his native Poland since he became head of the Roman
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