The Buzz | Hong Kong won’t open to world until mid-2022, top official says

Hong Kong could open up to global travel in roughly six months, after officials have successfully navigated the introduction of quarantine-free borders with mainland China and boosted the local vaccination

The Buzz | Sleaze claims roiling UK gov’t put Johnson under pressure

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to talk about climate change. But his opponents want to focus on sleaze. As a United Nations climate summit aimed at staving off catastrophic global

The Buzz | Crowd surge kills at least eight at Houston music festival

The crowd at a Houston music festival suddenly surged toward the stage during a performance by rapper Travis Scott, squeezing fans so tightly together that they could not breathe or

The Buzz | COP26: Countries pledge to phase out climate culprit coal

Several major coal-using nations have pledged for the first time to phase out their use of the heavily-polluting fossil fuel or to speed up existing plans to do so, while

The Buzz | ‘My name is Cleo’: Police weep upon rescuing Australian girl

Police smashed their way into a suburban house yesterday and rescued a 4-year-old girl whose disappearance from her family’s camping tent on Australia’s remote west coast more than two weeks

The Buzz | Happy Halloween: Gaming platform Roblox is back online

The popular gaming site Roblox went back online yesterday after being down for most of the weekend. The online platform crashed Friday. In a statement, the company tweeted Sunday evening

The Buzz | G20: US, European allies warn of Iran’s ‘provocative’ nuke steps

  President Joe Biden said Saturday that nuclear talks with Iran would resume as he and European leaders warned Tehran that “accelerated” and “provocative nuclear steps” it has taken will jeopardize

The Buzz | Report: Myanmar military uses systematic torture across country

Since its takeover of the government in February, the Myanmar military has been torturing detainees across the country in a methodical and systemic way, The Associated Press has found in interviews

The Buzz | Portuguese govt faces budget vote defeat; election likely

Portugal’s parliament was poised to reject early today the minority Socialist government’s proposed state budget for 2022, a move that would likely trigger a snap election and put a

The Buzz | China, Pakistan urge world to send humanitarian aid to Kabul

In a rare joint appeal, the leaders of Pakistan and China yesterday urged the international community to swiftly send humanitarian and economic aid to Afghanistan, where people are facing food

The Buzz | Taiwanese delegation in Prague to boost ties; China protests

Taiwanese government ministers were visiting the Czech capital yesterday accompanied by dozens of business and research representatives to boost trade and investment, a move that has angered China. Minister of National

The Buzz | Third bank robbed in Myanmar’s largest city in three months

Five men robbed a bank in Yangon on Friday, in at least the third major bank heist in Myanmar’s largest city in just over three months, the military-installed government said, The

The Buzz | Facebook says it will pay French publishers for news content

Facebook said yesterday that it has struck a deal with a group of French publishers to pay for links to their news stories that are shared by people on the

The Buzz | China’s FDI inflow up 19.6% in first 9 months

Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Chinese mainland, in actual use, rose 19.6% year on year in the first nine months of the year, the Ministry of Commerce said yesterday. During

The Buzz | Israeli scuba diver discovers ancient Crusader sword

An Israeli scuba diver has salvaged an ancient sword off the country’s Mediterranean coast that experts say dates back to the Crusaders. Israel’s Antiquities Authority said the man was on a

The Buzz | Colin Powell dies, exemplary general stained by Iraq claims

Colin Powell, who served Democratic and Republican presidents in war and peace but whose sterling reputation was forever stained by his faulty claims to justify the U.S. war in Iraq,

The Buzz | Horrific delay? Norway eyes police response to arrow attack

Norway announced it will hold an independent investigation into the actions of police and security agencies following a bow-and-arrow attack that killed five people and injured three others. Police have

The Buzz | US-based economists win Nobel prize for societal research

A U.S.-based economist won the Nobel prize for economics yesterday for pioneering research that showed an increase in minimum wage does not lead to less hiring and immigrants do not

The Buzz | Congo confirms new case of Ebola in country’s east

A case of Ebola has been confirmed in eastern Congo, according to the country’s Health Ministry and the National Institute of Biomedical Research, about five months after the country declared

The Buzz | WHO starts shipping COVID-19 medical supplies to North Korea

The World Health Organization has started shipping COVID-19 medical supplies into North Korea, a possible sign that the North is easing one of the world’s strictest pandemic border closures to

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