A Mississippi Republican who drew scorn for making racially insensitive comments managed to hold her US Senate seat Tuesday in the final race of 2018, networks projected, avoiding what could have been an embarrassing setback for President Donald Trump. Incumbent Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith was leading Democratic challenger Mike […]
SEOUL – South and North Korea will launch a field study on Friday to relink railways cut since the 1950-53 Korean conflict, Seoul’s Unification Ministry said on Wednesday, the latest development in improving ties between two sides technically still at war. The announcement came after the U.N. Security […]
US President Donald Trump has said he may cancel a long-awaited summit with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin after a confrontation at sea between Russia and Ukraine led Kiev to warn of the threat of “full-scale war”. Trump is scheduled to meet Putin at the G20 summit in […]
A crashed Lion Air jet should have been grounded over a recurrent technical problem before its fatal journey, Indonesian authorities said Wednesday, as details from the new jet’s flight data recorder suggested that pilots struggled to control its anti-stalling system. The preliminary crash report from Indonesia’s transport safety […]
At most international summits, the discord is generally on show outside as protesters clash with police some distance from the halls of power. But what about when the thorny issue is inside the bubble itself? All eyes will be on Saudi Arabia’s embattled Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman […]
HONG KONG — Leading scientists see even more reasons to worry and have more questions than answers after a Chinese scientist attended an international conference Wednesday and repeated his claim to have helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies. He Jiankui spoke at the gene-editing meeting in Hong […]
Intelligence agencies have arrested a senior French civil servant on suspicion of spying for North Korea, a judicial source in Paris said. Benoit Quennedey, the president of the Franco-Korean Friendship Association who has written a book on the isolated nation, was placed in custody on Sunday. The Paris […]
Leg-spinner Yasir Shah followed his extraordinary first innings performance with a six wicket haul as Pakistan beat New Zealand by an innings and 16 runs in the second Test in Dubai on Tuesday to level the series 1-1. The 32-year-old, who took 8-41 on Monday, had figures of […]
Jack Ma, founder of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, is among the world’s richest people but he has now emerged as a member of another club: China’s 89-million-strong Communist Party. The billionaire’s Communist bona fides were revealed by the People’s Daily, the party’s official mouthpiece, in an article praising […]
MOSCOW — The Kremlin has warned that the martial law that will go into effect in parts of Ukraine on Wednesday might trigger renewed hostilities in the separatist-held east. The Ukrainian parliament on Monday adopted a motion by the president to impose martial law for 30 days, something […]
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