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Angolan authorities cordoned off an area where police and armed religious sect members clashed last week, leaving hundreds dead, according to the main opposition party. Journalists, human-rights activists and family members
The world governing body of sailing threatened Friday to move all of its events for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics out of the city’s Guanabara Bay if action isn’t
With its newest Taurus, Ford is joining the race to appeal to Chinese business buyers by offering bigger, more luxurious back seats. The Taurus, Ford Motor Co.’s first full-size sedan
AFGHANISTAN The Taliban storms a police checkpoint in a northwestern province and kills nine border guards, while a roadside bombing kills six civilians in the country’s southwest. JAPAN Two Japanese Cabinet
What better way to celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope’s quarter-century in orbit than with cosmic fireworks? Yesterday — one day before the 25th anniversary of Hubble’s launch — NASA released an
European Union leaders are discussing plans to double financial sources to save lives in the Mediterranean where hundreds of migrants have drowned in recent days, and to capture and destroy vessels which
The Calbuco volcano erupted Wednesday (yesterday in Macau) for the first time in more than 42 years, billowing a huge ash cloud over a sparsely populated, mountainous area in southern Chile. Authorities
Colonel Vladimir Komarov, 40, is the first known victim of a space flight. He was an experienced cosmonaut, on his second flight, and had completed all his experiments successfully before
CHINA Beijing authorities say a key measure of air pollutants showed a 19 percent drop in the first three months of the year. The municipal government said yesterday that the
Since yesterday (Macau time), smoking is no longer permitted in bars, gambling halls and many other public places such as hotels, workplaces, private clubs and stores. For many locals, a ban
More than 100,000 Ethiopians yesterday protested the killing of Ethiopian Christians in Libya and their own government’s failure to raise living standards of the poor, with poverty fueling the flow
A former Auschwitz guard was taking the stand for a second day yesterday to answer judges’ questions about his role at the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. SS Sgt. Oskar Groening
Russia acknowledged the surging cost for its takeover of Crimea from Ukraine, with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev blaming the standoff and sanctions that followed for helping push the economy into
Jane Andrews, 34, denies murdering businessman Thomas Cressman, 39, at their home in Fulham, West London, in September last year. But Bruce Houlder QC, for the prosecution, told the Old Bailey
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from a salon owner challenging a decision by local regulators to stop her from offering pedicures using fish that nibble dead skin
European lawmakers are likely to urge FIFA to re-vote on awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe says it will discuss the issue
CHINA At least seven coal miners were killed and 13 left trapped after a shaft flooded at a mine in northern China, state media reported yesterday. More than 600 rescue
An Egyptian criminal court yesterday sentenced ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison on charges linked to the killing of protesters in 2012, the first verdict to
Worried about their safety, hundreds of African immigrants headed out of South Africa in buses on Monday following deadly attacks on foreign-owned shops. South Africa’s anti-immigrant attacks, in which seven people have been killed this month,
Italian prosecutors yesterday began building their case against the traffickers responsible for the drowning of as many as 950 migrants in the Mediterranean, as European Union leaders mulled a new plan to
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