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Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday said his country will not seek dominance over Southeast Asia or bully its smaller neighbors, amid ongoing friction over the South China Sea.Xi made the remarks during a virtual conference with the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, he...
Austria went into a nationwide lockdown early Monday in a desperate effort to contain spiraling coronavirus infections.The lockdown in the Alpine nation comes as average daily deaths have tripled in recent weeks and some hospitals have warned that their intensive care units are reaching capacity. Th...
A deal was reached between Sudan’s military and civilian leaders to reinstate Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who was deposed in a coup last month, military and government officials said Sunday.They also said that government officials and politicians arrested since the Oct. 25 coup will be rele...
A difficult political atmosphere for President Joe Biden may have become even more treacherous with the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.Biden was already facing sliding poll numbers with an electorate worn down by the coronavirus pandemic and increasing inflation. Now, the president finds himself caug...
China reduced the level of its diplomatic relations with Lithuania to below ambassador level Sunday in retaliation for the Baltic nation allowing Taiwan, the island democracy claimed by Beijing as part of its territory, to open a representative office.China earlier expelled the Lithuanian ambassador...
The foreign minister of Yemen’s government in exile warned Sunday that a rebel takeover of the crucial, energy-rich city of Marib would be a disaster on the scale of the collapse of its ancient dam that decimated an entire kingdom.Ahmad Awad Bin Mubarak’s comments mark some of the direst...
The buildup of Russian troops near Ukraine has left US officials perplexed, muddying the Biden administration’s response.Some Republican lawmakers have been pressing the US to step up military support for Ukraine. But that risk turning what may be mere muscle-flexing by Russian President Vladi...
Thais flocked to rivers and lakes on Friday evening to release small floats adorned with flowers and candles in an annual festival honoring the goddess of water, with thousands of the tiny boats ending up clogging and polluting the country’s waterways.Within hours, workers began trawling the r...
President Joe Biden was headed to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday for his first routine physical exam as president.Plans for the physical were announced early Friday morning by White House press secretary Jen Psaki.Biden, 78, had his last full exam in December 2019, when docto...
More than 28,000 Afghans have applied for temporary admission into the US for humanitarian reasons since shortly before the Taliban recaptured Afghanistan and sparked a chaotic US withdrawal, but only about 100 of them have been approved, according to federal officials. US Citizenship and Immigratio...
An estimated 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in one year, a never-before-seen milestone that health officials say is tied to the COVID-19 pandemic and a more dangerous drug supply.Overdose deaths have been rising for more than two decades, accelerated in the past two years and, according to...
Maria Ressa says much still remains uncertain about her life in the month since she became the first ever Filipino and the first working journalist in more than 80 years to win the Nobel Peace Prize.Will her battle against a libel suit in the Philippines lead to jail time? Will she be able to travel...
The Canadian Pacific coast province of British Columbia declared a state of emergency Wednesday following floods and mudslides caused by extremely heavy rainfall, and officials said they expected to find more dead.Every major route between the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, where Canada’s...
A man who pleaded guilty to killing his estranged wife and sexually assaulting her young daughter as her mother lay dying was put to death Wednesday evening, becoming the first inmate executed in Mississippi in nine years.David Neal Cox, 50, abandoned all appeals and filed court papers calling himse...
Air pollution remained extremely high in the Indian capital on Thursday, a day after authorities closed schools indefinitely and shut some power stations to reduce smog that has blanketed the city for much of the month.New Delhi’s air quality remained “very poor,” according to SAFA...
US Trade Representative Katharine Tai and Japan’s trade and industry minister agreed Wednesday to work to resolve a dispute over American tariffs on steel and aluminum as part of a framework for cooperation in wider areas.A partnership announced earlier this week also will include working on a...
President Joe Biden is highlighting billions of dollars in his giant bipartisan infrastructure deal to pay for the installation of electric vehicle chargers across the country, an investment he says will go a long way to curbing planet-warming carbon emissions while creating good-paying jobs.Biden o...
The Biden administration’s competition with China for influence didn’t get off to a great start in Africa. In August, the top US diplomat planned a visit, only to postpone it because of the turmoil in Afghanistan that preoccupied Washington. Now, three months later and as two significant...
French police on Tuesday have evacuated migrants from a makeshift camp near Dunkirk, in northern France, where at least 1,500 people gathered in hopes of making it across the English Channel to Britain.The Prefecture of the region said more than 400 people agreed to go to shelters. “The operat...
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in court for the first time in over half a year on Tuesday as a one-time confidant prepared to take the stand against him in a high-profile corruption case.But the long-awaited testimony was delayed until next week after a legal challenge fro...
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