Two killed, 9 hurt in cleaver attack at Shenzhen Walmart store

Two people were hacked to death and another nine injured by a man wielding a meat cleaver inside a Walmart store in China’s southern manufacturing hub of Shenzhen, police

Economic growth holds steady despite slowdown fears

China’s economic growth held steady in the latest quarter, boosted by unexpectedly strong trade and consumer spending, despite fears tighter lending controls aimed at cooling a surge in

China just made the most steel ever as Trump gets set to act

China’s old economy is displaying greatly renewed vigor. Output of steel and aluminum hit records last month, with mills and smelters boosting run-rates of the products used

India | Lawmakers choose president, likely a Hindu BJP ally 

Lawmakers voted yesterday to choose India’s next president in an election widely expected to be won by a little-known member of a Hindu political group closely

Two killed as soldiers trade fire in Kashmir

An Indian army soldier and a child were killed yesterday after Pakistani troops opened fire across a cease-fire line dividing the troubled region between India and Pakistan,

Amid disputes, Indonesia renames part of South China Sea

Indonesia has named waters in its exclusive economic zone that overlap with China’s expansive claim to the South China Sea as the North Natuna Sea, an assertion of

S. Korea offers talks on tension, family reunions with North

South Korea yesterday offered talks with North Korea to ease animosities along their tense border and resume reunions of families separated by their war in the

Afghanistan | UN reports rise in war deaths, blames insurgents

Afghanistan’s protracted war killed a record number of civilians during the first six months of this year, according to a U.N. report released yesterday, which blamed

Venezuela | Maduro foes: Over 7 million vote in referendum

Foes of President Nicolas Maduro said more than 7 million Venezuelans cast symbolic votes rejecting his plan to retool the constitution in a strong but

Brexit talks begin in earnest with citizens’ rights in focus 

Talks to extricate Britain from the European Union began yesterday with both sides still seemingly far apart on citizens’ rights after Brexit officially takes place in less than

Offbeat | Saudi girl’s online post in miniskirt draws conservative ire

A young Saudi woman has sparked a sensation online by posting a video of herself in a miniskirt and crop top walking around in public, with some Saudis

This Day in History | 1981 – Violence erupts at Irish hunger strike protest

Nearly 200 people are in hospital in Dublin after a hunger strike demonstration turned violent. The march through the Irish capital began peacefully as 10,000 took

Tennis | What we learned at Wimbledon: Never count out Federer

Never count out Roger Federer. Seems obvious, right? Especially after he won his record-breaking eighth Wimbledon championship and second Grand Slam title of this resurgent season.

Formula E | With engines whirring, electric car racing comes to Brooklyn

The roar of the engine was replaced by a furious whirring as the future of motorsports came to Brooklyn. Formula E took over part

IAAF provisionally suspends Fredericks in payment probe

Four-time Olympic medalist Frank Fredericks has been suspended from duty by track and field’s governing body, the IAAF, while he is investigated for alleged corruption suspected of

World briefs

SINGAPORE home sales fell 21 percent in June from the previous month as fewer new projects were launched in the city-state. Developers sold 820 units last month,

The Buzz | ‘Curious’ baboon knocks out power to Zambian tourist town 

A baboon in Zambia has interfered with machinery at a power station in a tourist town near Victoria Falls, knocking out power to tens of thousands of people

Tuesday, July 18, 2017 – edition no. 2846

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Obituary | George Romero, father of the zombie film, dies

George Romero, whose classic “Night of the Living Dead” and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh-devouring undead

World Views | Uber’s Napoleon moment might not be its last retreat

He probably wouldn’t agree, but it’s fortunate in one way for Travis Kalanick that he’s no longer in charge of Uber Technologies Inc. At least he won’t have

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