Gaming | Former Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval joins MGM Resorts

Former Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval is joining casino giant MGM Resorts International to help push the company’s global expansion efforts, particularly in Japan, and work on

United States, China leave next steps for trade talks unclear

The United States and China gave no indication of their next step after wrapping up talks aimed at resolving a tariff fight that threatens to chill

Two biggest economies seek rare soft landing feat amid trade war

The world’s two biggest economies are separately struggling to come in for unparalleled, simultaneous soft landings, an effort complicated by the trade war they’re waging at

US apparel firm cuts off Chinese factory in internment camp

A U.S. supplier of t-shirts and other team apparel to college bookstores cut its ties yesterday with a Chinese company that drew workers from an internment

North Korea | Kim looking to ‘achieve results’ in second summit with Trump

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reportedly told the leader of his only major ally, China, that he wants to “achieve results” on the nuclear

South Korean leader urges bolder steps from North Korea, US

South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged North Korea to take bolder disarmament measures that the United States should then reward, suggesting yesterday he wants harsh sanctions lifted

Nepal, Japan agree to resume commercial flights

Japan and Nepal agreed to allow state-run Nepal Airlines to resume flights between the two Asian nations. The agreement was signed Wednesday at the beginning

Australia | Man arrested over asbestos consulate packages

Australian police arrested a man after 38 packages allegedly containing asbestos were sent to foreign consulates in the cities of Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. Savas

Maduro era is endurance test as Venezuela’s lifelines fall away

President Nicolas Maduro’s second term is officially six years. However, it will endure only as long as Venezuela’s moribund economy allows. The 56-year-old successor to

Spain | Far-right Vox party allies with mainstream rivals

Spain’s far-right Vox party has edged toward the political mainstream, dropping its more extremist positions to help form a regional government in Andalusia as far-right parties build

Offbeat | Austrian train workers rescue wild goat buried in snowdrift

Austrian news agency APA reported this week two workers leapt out of the train and shoveled through the snow to reach the chamois, a type of

This Day in History | 1993 – BA dirty tricks against Virgin cost £3m

British Airways has ended one of the most bitter and protracted libel actions in aviation history in a humiliating climb-down. At the High Court Christopher Clarke

Football | Asian Cup | Thailand beats Bahrain in Asian Cup after changing coaches

Changing the manager had an immediate benefit for Thailand as it won only its second of 22 matches at the Asian Cup yesterday. Chanathip Songkrasin scored

Figo and Kaka in Pakistan to launch World Football Stars event

Football greats Luis Figo and Kaka arrived in Pakistan yesterday to launch the World Football Stars event in a country more known for its cricket.

Youth Olympics in 2020 aims to overcome Swiss bid skeptics

After voters in Switzerland rejected three Olympic bids since 2013, the city that’s home to the IOC headquarters will still stage a Winter Games in one

Qatari broadcaster asks Italy to move football game from Saudi

Qatari state-owned sports broadcaster beIN has asked Italy’s football league not to play a showpiece match in Saudi Arabia, accusing the country of backing the pirating

World briefs

THAILAND Four paramilitary volunteers were killed yesterday while guarding a school in southern Thailand, the latest of several recent attacks in a region troubled by a Muslim separatist insurgency

The Buzz | Suspect faces court in Belgium over Jewish museum attack

The trial of a man accused of shooting dead four people at a Jewish museum in Belgium in 2014 after fighting alongside extremists in Syria started in Brussels

Holympics | Vatican launches track team of Swiss Guards, nuns

About 60 Holy See runners — Swiss Guards, priests, nuns, pharmacists and even a 62-year-old professor who works in the Vatican’s Apostolic Library — are the

Kapok | Opaque and unaccountable

How many times have you heard the assertion “information is power”? Then, if politics is not only understood literally or even figuratively, and yet, on the conservative side

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