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CHINA has sentenced the former president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei, to 13 years and six months in prison on charges of accepting more than $2 million in bribes.
IRAN‘s top diplomat has cancelled his trip and will not be attending the Davos Forum, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said yesterday amid a crisis with Washington and disputes with Europe
CHINA Huawei Technologies Co. Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou squares up to begin extradition hearings in a Vancouver court today, 13 months after she was arrested on a U.S. handover
CHINA-RUSSIA Russia’s constitutional changes that prompted the prime minister’s departure won’t affect increasingly close ties between Beijing and Moscow, China said yesterday. Under Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the
MYANMAR The United Nations’ top court announced yesterday that it will issue a decision next week on a request to order Myanmar to halt what has been cast as a
CHINA A bus plunged into a sinkhole on a city street in northwestern China, killing at least six people and leaving four missing, authorities said. Some 1,000 emergency workers and
AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN Severe winter weather has struck parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, with heavy snowfall, rains and flash floods that left at least 54 people dead,
THAILAND Thousands of anti-government protesters took part in the “Run Against Dictatorship” in the Thai capital yesterday in the biggest political demonstration in years. Organizers said more than 13,000 people
CHINA’s economy czar will visit Washington next week for the signing of an interim trade deal, the government said yesterday. Vice Premier Liu He, Beijing’s chief envoy in talks with
IRAN A Ukrainian passenger jet carrying 176 people crashed yesterday just minutes after taking off from the Iranian capital’s main airport, turning farmland on the outskirts of Tehran into fields
INDIA A death warrant was issued yesterday for the four men convicted in the 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman on a New Delhi bus that galvanized
CHINA President Xi Jinping lauded Kiribati yesterday for “standing on the right side of history” during his first meeting with the Pacific island nation’s leader since it
TAIWAN President Tsai Ing-wen convened a meeting of top defense officials and urged them to be on a lookout for military developments concerning China following a helicopter crash that killed
US-CHINA US President Donald Trump said he will sign the first phase of a trade deal with China on Jan. 15, sealing an agreement that sees the Asian nation raising
CHINA A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world’s first genetically edited babies was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison
TAIWAN President Tsai Ing-wen said yesterday that the self-governing island’s democracy remains under direct threat from rival China, underscoring her calls for closer ties with the U.S.
INDONESIA Thousands of people knelt in prayer in Aceh province at ceremonies yesterday marking the 15th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, one of modern history’s worst natural disasters. INDONESIA People
CHINA The government yesterday attacked the newly created U.S. Space Force as a “direct threat to outer space peace and security.” Foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told
HONG KONG The violent crash of a double-decker bus in Hong Kong killed six people and injured more than 30 others yesterday, police said. The crash in the New Territories
CHINA A state-owned utility says it has bought 49% of the power distribution grid in the Gulf nation of Oman. State Grid Corp. described the purchase as part of China’s
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