Category: World News

Woman fought with driver, causing bus to fall in China river

BEIJING — A fight between a bus driver and a passenger who missed her stop caused the bus to plunge off a high bridge into China’s Yangtze River, police said Friday. All 15 people onboard are presumed dead. An eight-second surveillance video released by Chongqing city police on […]

Alec Baldwin charged with assault in alleged parking dispute

NEW YORK— Alec Baldwin was arrested Friday and charged with assault and harassment after allegedly striking a man in the face during a dispute over a parking spot outside his New York City home, authorities said. Police said the actor claimed he had a family member holding the […]

Trump presidency faces high stakes in midterm elections

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has been acting like a candidate on the ballot this week, staging daily double-header rallies and blasting out ads for Republicans up for election on Tuesday. Given the stakes for his presidency, he might as well be. A knot of investigations. Partisan gridlock. […]

India iPhone sales to fall for first time in four years: researcher

BENGALURU – Apple’s iPhone sales are set to dip by around a quarter in India’s holiday season fourth quarter, putting them on course for the first full-year fall in four years, industry research firm Counterpoint said on Saturday. The Cupertino, California company’s struggle to break through with India’s […]

UN aid convoy reaches Syria desert camp near Jordan border

BEIRUT — A convoy of 78 trucks carrying life-saving assistance reached a remote camp for the displaced on Syria’s border with Jordan on Saturday, where tens of thousands of people are stranded in the desert amid dwindling supplies. The United Nations and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent said […]

Social media’s misinformation battle: No winners, so far

NEW YORK— Facebook and other social platforms have been fighting online misinformation and hate speech for two years. With the U.S. midterm elections just a few days away, there are signs that they’re making some headway, although they’re still a very long way from winning the war. That’s […]

Egypt’s Christians bury victims of militant attack

MINYA, Egypt – Egyptian Christians buried six members of the same family on Saturday who were shot dead while returning from a baptism at a Coptic monastery in Egypt’s Minya province. Two buses were attacked on Friday near the Monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor in Minya, 260 […]

Trump says ‘I think we’ll make a deal with China’ on trade

WASHINGTON- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he will likely make a deal with China on trade, adding that a lot of progress had been made to resolve the two countries’ differences but warning that he still may impose more tariffs on Chinese goods. China very […]

Despite crackdown, ‘junk news’ still flourishes on social media

Despite an aggressive crackdown by social media firms, so-called “junk news” is spreading at a greater rate than in 2016 on social media ahead of the US midterm elections, according to researchers. Oxford Internet Institute researchers concluded that Facebook and Twitter remain filled with “extremist, sensationalist, conspiratorial, masked […]

Asia Bibi’s lawyer leaves Pakistan citing threats to his life

The Pakistani lawyer who saved a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy from the gallows left the country on Saturday, saying his life was under threat. Saif-ul-Mulook’s latest victory saw the freeing of Asia Bibi, who spent nearly a decade on death row, after the Supreme Court overturned her […]

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