Louis DeJoy is uninterested in the niceties of Washington. The wealthy longtime businessman with an outer borough New York accent prides himself as a problem solver ready to disrupt an unwieldy
Several thousand people rallied in Hungary’s capital Saturday against plans by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to host a Chinese university in Budapest. A strategic agreement that Hungary signed with Shanghai-based Fudan
Buckingham Palace barred ethnic minorities from office jobs during the 1960s, the Guardian newspaper reported yesterday, citing documents in Britain’s National Archives. The revelation, published on the newspaper’s front page, was
AstraZeneca’s partner in Thailand yesterday began its first deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines after concerns they were behind on their production schedules for the country and parts of Southeast Asia. Siam Bioscience
London’s Heathrow Airport has reopened a terminal that was mothballed during the coronavirus pandemic to handle passengers now arriving from high-risk countries. Critics say the action should have been taken
The NATO military alliance is restricting access to its headquarters for a group of Belarus officials in the wake of Minsk’s decision to divert a Ryanair passenger plane to arrest
The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school — one
Production of another potential vaccine against COVID-19 will begin within weeks, its developers Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline said yesterday as they launched a large trial enrolling 35,000 adult volunteers in the
Portuguese authorities say they are speeding up their COVID-19 vaccination drive nationwide after prompting an outcry by saying inoculations would be accelerated only in the Lisbon region. The Lisbon and Tagus
Bitcoin traded lower yesterday as prices pulled back from a double-digit percentage rally, stoked by Elon Musk’s effort to bolster the token’s green credentials on Twitter. The largest digital currency slipped 4% to
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to the Middle East to press the Israelis, Palestinians and regional players to build on last week’s Gaza cease-fire by laying the groundwork for an
China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, will visit Russia for the 16th strategic and security consultation between the two countries starting today, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said yesterday. Yang, director
A top European Union official is declaring the bloc’s COVID-19 vaccination drive a success after its much-criticized slow start. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU’s executive Commission, proclaimed
President Joe Biden expressed support for a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers in a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but he stopped short of demanding
China yesterday renewed calls for the U.S. to play a constructive role in ending the conflict in Gaza and stop blocking efforts at the United Nations to demand an end
French riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons Saturday in Paris as protesters supporting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip defied a ban on marching in the French capital. Thousands
An equipment failure caused an outage at a power plant in southern Taiwan yesterday, triggering rolling blackouts across the island affecting millions of people. The outage in Kaohsiung trapped at least
The German government has agreed to let travelers who have been vaccinated or recovered from a COVID-19 infection avoid testing and quarantine when entering the country, unless they’ve come from
Germany’s powerful Catholic progressives are openly defying a recent Holy See pronouncement that priests cannot bless same-sex unions by offering such blessings at services in about 100 different churches all
Impromptu street celebrations erupted across Spain as the clock struck midnight on Saturday, when a six-month-long national state of emergency to contain the spread of coronavirus ended and many nighttime
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