Cambodia Police said they have arrested two South Korean citizens who were found carrying USD2.2 million into the country without proper authorization.
South Korea The president said yesterday the country is committed to finding a diplomatic solution to a bitter dispute over tightened Japanese control of exports of high-tech materials used by South Korean companies to produce semiconductors and displays.
India A speeding bus smashed through the boundary wall of an expressway bridge and plunged into a drain in northern India early yesterday, killing at least 29 people on board, an official said.
UK The British government was hunting yesterday for the source of a leak of diplomatic cables from Britain’s ambassador in Washington that branded President Donald Trump’s administration “dysfunctional” and “inept.”
Mexico Police, soldiers and National Guard are raiding hotels, buses and trains to round up migrants, creating scenes of weeping Central American mothers piled into police vans along with their children and overflowing detention centers with deplorable conditions.
Greece Conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in as Greece’s new prime minister yesterday, a day after his resounding win over left-wing Alexis Tsipras, who led the country through the tumultuous final years of its international bailouts.
Germany The radical and painful restructuring of Germany’s Deutsche Bank, which is cutting 18,000 jobs, is the end of a long, failed attempt to compete with the global investment banking giants that left it overextended.
USA Eleven years after letting Jeffrey Epstein off lightly with a once-secret plea bargain, federal prosecutors took another run at putting the billionaire financier behind bars on sex charges, accusing him yesterday of abusing dozens of underage girls as young as 14.
USA Shaken residents are cleaning up from two of the biggest earthquakes to rattle California in decades as scientists warn that both should serve as a wake-up call to be ready when the long-dreaded “Big One” strikes.
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