Co-owner of the Russia’s second biggest airline died in a plane crash
GERMANY - Natalia Fileva, one of Russia's richest women and owner of the major shareholder S7 also known as Siberia Airlines, another passenger and...
Cities go dark for Earth Hour, bring light to climate change
NEW YORK – Cities around the world marked Earth Hour on Saturday by turning off lights at 8:30 p.m. local time in a call...
Turkish voters go to polls in critical municipal elections
ISTANBUL – Voters in Turkey began casting ballots in Sunday’s municipal elections, which are seen as a barometer of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s popularity...
US struggling with growing number of asylum seekers
WASHINGTON – Border officials are aiming to more than quadruple the number of asylum seekers sent back over the southern border each day, a...
Nicaragua reiterates pledge to release people detained in protests
MANAGUA – The Nicaraguan government reiterated its pledge on Friday to release all people arrested during protests against President Daniel Ortega, though the government...
Two Japanese teenagers drown in Australian lake
MELBOURNE – The bodies of two Japanese teenagers missing since Friday were found in a lake on Fraser Island off Australia’s northeast coast, police...
Pope signs law to prevent child abuse in Vatican
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis on Friday made it compulsory in law to report the sexual abuse of children within the Vatican and in...
Venezuela’s Guaidó banned from office for 15 years
CARACAS – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó will be barred from holding further public office for 15 years, the maximum allowed by law, the...
Egyptian pro-democracy activist free after 5 years in prison
CAIRO – A leading Egyptian pro-democracy activist was freed from prison early Friday after serving a five-year sentence for inciting and taking part in...
US, China resume trade talks after ‘productive working dinner’
BEIJING – U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday he had a “productive working dinner” the previous night in Beijing, kicking off a...