Call it checkbook diplomacy, Chinese style. On visits to Washington and the United Nations, President Xi Jinping has pledged billions of dollars for peacekeeping, economic development and climate change, winning audience
Protesters seeking to remind China of last year’s lost fight for free elections in Hong Kong gathered yesterday outside the city’s government headquarters, where students had battled tear gas to
The multitudes of Chinese students attending American universities are approaching college as less of a life experience and more as a transaction, educators worry, leading to measures to help them
Two Chinese activists involved in attempts to organize an independent political party pleaded not guilty in court yesterday to the charge of subverting state power, their wives and a lawyer
Taliban gunmen fanned out in full force yesterday across a key Afghan city they captured the day before, as the U.S. military carried out an airstrike on Kunduz and President
Nepal is considering placing new age and fitness restrictions on people who want to climb Mount Everest, officials said yesterday, as the country looks to enhance safety on the mountain
Secessionist parties who agree on breaking Catalonia away from Spain but little else started preparing for tough political negotiations aimed at forming a regional coalition government to push their independence
Information from Oleg Lyalin - supposedly a member of the USSR’s trade delegation in the UK - led to the expulsion of 105 Soviet officials from Britain on 25 September. Mr
Tomasz Smolarz, the governor of Lower Silesia, said the aim of the work in the town of Walbrzych is to exclude any danger for residents. He said the experts will
Thursday, 11:45pm Fiji v Wales H 7, D 41, A 1.18 Wales made three injury-enforced changes to its depleted back division and kept the same pack for the Rugby World Cup game against
Four years after stepping down in disgrace, former FIFA vice president Jack Warner was banned from soccer for life yesterday for repeated acts of bribery related to World Cup bidding
Venus Williams earned the 700th victory of her career yesterday by beating German qualifier Julia Goerges 6-4, 6-3 in the second round of Wuhan Open. Williams is a seven-time major champion
For the first time in many years I am teaching an undergraduate university course. Surprisingly, I am enjoying this teaching - I am not known for my patience, which is
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Mexican federal prosecutors are taking over the case of at least nine babies taken from poor or drug-addicted mothers and offered in an adoption-for-pay scheme. The prosecutors’ office in the northern
US-CHINA Beijing’s pledge to help crack down on hackers who steal commercial secrets from the United States, even coming as it did amid a bit of arm-twisting by President Barack
A rare confluence of a lunar eclipse and a supermoon this weekend has prompted such widespread fear of an impending apocalypse that the Mormon Church was compelled to issue a
For the first time ever, tourism authorities will implement a free sightseeing package for overnight visitors. The policy was revealed last Friday by the Macau Government Tourist Office director, Helena de
The ceremony will take place on October 20. Lei Heong Iok, IPM’s president, told Lusa that Mr Barroso will receive the award after a conference, where he will be speaking
An exhibit featuring Lego versions of local attractions and monuments opened to the public last Friday. It will be available for viewing until 28 December at the Ritz Building, in
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