LYON – France has opened an investigation into the disappearance of Meng Hongwei, the Chinese head of the international police agency Interpol, French police said on Friday. Meng, a Chinese national who served a lengthy […]
SEOUL – Former president Lee Myung-bak was sentenced Friday to 15 years in jail over a set of corruptions, including bribery and embezzlement, becoming the fourth ex-South Korean leader to be criminally convicted. The Seoul […]
PATNA – Two men have been arrested in the Indian state of Bihar for allegedly raping a woman who was bathing in the Ganges or Ganga, a sacred river in the South Asian country. Police […]
LIMA – A Peruvian judge has annulled the medical pardon for former strongman Alberto Fujimori and ordered him sent back to prison. Ex-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned Fujimori, who ruled as a dictator during the […]
STOCKHOLM – The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics to three scientists working the field of laser physics. The academy, in a statement on Tuesday, said the award […]
JAKARTA – The death toll from Indonesia’s multiple earthquakes and an ensuing tsunami has crossed 2,000, with at least 680 still missing, the country’s disaster management agency said on Wednesday. The government says around 68,000 […]
WASHINGTON — The United States is canceling a 1955 treaty with Iran establishing economic relations and consular rights between the two nations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday. The move follows a ruling […]
THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday ruled that Chile does not have to negotiate access to the Pacific Ocean with Bolivia, frustrating hopes of resolving a bitter dispute dating back […]
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