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US-CHINA The United States has warned that the toughest crackdown in years on Chinese activists threatens to cloud the high-profile state visit by President Xi Jinping. Yet the issue of
Prime Minister Ian Smith announced the news five days after hearing the proposals of the United States-led diplomatic delegation. The plan presented to him by US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger
The head of the U.N. food agency said yesterday (Macau time) the overwhelming humanitarian needs in crises from Syria, Yemen and Iraq to South Sudan and Africa’s Sahel region are
Philadelphia has a couple of gifts for visiting Pope Francis — an ivory-bone china bowl featuring images of Independence Hall and St. Peter’s Basilica, and a bicycle with a chain
One of the USA’s top writers about race, Ta-Nehisi Coates, has signed up with Marvel Comics for a Black Panther series. Coates, whose open letter to his son “Between the World
Spanish officials say a major power outage left some 100,000 people in the southwestern port city of Cadiz without electricity for up to four hours. A city spokesman said the outage
Apple Inc. has removed some applications from its App Store after developers in China were tricked into using software tools that added malicious code in an unusual security breach. Apple gave
US-CHINA When Xi Jinping and wife Peng Liyuan visit Washington later this week, Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, face the daunting task of trying to throw a warm and
Greeks have elected Alexis Tsipras prime minister for the second time this year but with a strikingly different mandate: Instead of the vehemently anti-austerity platform he espoused in January, he
Burkina Faso’s coup leader said yesterday that negotiations are still ongoing even though a deadline given by the military for the junta to disarm has expired. Gen. Gilbert Diendere, the coup
Pope Francis ended his visit to Cuba yesterday with a Mass at the country’s most revered shrine and a pep talk with families before flying north to Washington for the
World famous film actor and director Charlie Chaplin has returned to England for the first time in 21 years. He arrived with his wife Oona - daughter of playwright Eugene O’Neill
Moldova’s central bank governor resigned yesterday, following weeks of street protests over $1.5 billion that disappeared from three Moldovan banks. Dorin Dragutanu, governor of the National Bank of Moldova stepped down
CHINA-NEW ZEALAND As Chinese grew wealthier while their economy raced ahead, dairy farmers more than 6,000 miles away in verdant New Zealand felt like they’d won the lottery. Now, it’s
Greek left-wing leader Alexis Tsipras was set to receive the formal mandate to govern for a second straight term yesterday, after his unexpectedly decisive victory in early national elections that
Pope Francis was flying to eastern Cuba yesterday for the next leg of his pilgrimage after having met with both Raul and Fidel Castro but missing out on an encounter with
The new Independent Television Authority (ITA) began its broadcasts with live coverage of a ceremony at the Guildhall marking the start of Britain’s first-ever commercially-funded television station. Among the speakers was
A Cornell University graduate student who allowed honeybees to sting him in 25 places and a group of scientists who concluded it’s possible for one man to father 888 children
Jackie Collins, the novelist whose raunchy tales of glamor and fame sold more than 500 million books in a writing career spanning almost a half century, has died. She was
Alexis Tsipras looked set to return to power in Greece as his Syriza party headed for an election victory for the second time in eight months, an exit poll showed. The 41-year-old former
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