Hong Kong cleans up after latest violence
HONG KONG – This Chinese-ruled city started
cleaning up and train services were resumed after a weekend of sometimes
violent protests that left some pro-democracy activists...
Thousands stranded as British travel firm collapses
LONDON – The world’s oldest travel firm Thomas
Cook collapsed on Monday, stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers
around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime...
HK police storm mall as protest turns violent
HONG KONG – Hong Kong police stormed a
shopping mall where a pro-democracy protest turned violent on Sunday, and
activists trashed fittings at the rail station...
Iran says it will ‘destroy’ any aggressor
DUBAI – Iran will pursue any aggressor,
even if it carries out a limited attack, and seek to destroy it, the head of
the elite Revolutionary...
Paris draws new climate rally
PARIS – Climate protesters marched
through Paris for a second day on Saturday in a rally that saw sporadic clashes
between masked demonstrators and police who...
Rare protests against Egypt’s leader erupt
CAIRO – Rare protests against President
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi erupted in central Cairo and several smaller Egyptian
cities on Friday night as hundreds of young people,...
Maldives not ‘mired in debt trap,’ says China
BEIJING - The
Maldives are not “mired in a Chinese debt trap”, the Chinese government’s top
diplomat told the visiting Maldivian foreign minister, amid fears in...
US sending troops to bolster Saudi defenses
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump
on Friday approved sending American troops to bolster Saudi Arabia’s air and
missile defenses after the largest-ever attack on the...
India bans e-cigarettes
INDIA – The production, import and sale of
electronic cigarettes was banned in this country, Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman said.
Sitharaman added an executive order was
approved banning...
Mexico sets new probe on 43 missing students
MEXICO – A new investigation is underway
into the disappearance of 43 trainee teachers in Guerrero state in 2014.
The 43 students from a teacher...