The Japanese steel firm, ordered by a South Korean court to compensate South Korean workers for forced labor, refused to meet South Korea lawyers on Monday. Two lawyers and civic activists visited the headquarters of Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp. in Tokyo to deliver a letter that […]
Police in Queensland, Australia, said they arrested a woman for allegedly contaminating fresh strawberries with sewing needles, injuring at least one man. Officials charged the 50-year-old woman with seven counts of contaminating goods after a months-long investigation. There were hundreds of reports of needles found in strawberries starting in September, […]
The diabetes drug Farxiga might do double-duty for patients, helping to ward off another killer, heart failure, new research shows. Type 2 diabetics who took Farxiga saw their odds of hospitalization for heart failure drop by 27 percent compared to those who took a placebo, according to a […]
The death toll in the Camp Fire in Northern California has climbed to 23 — the third deadliest ever in California — and scorched 109,000 acres — the third-most destructive in the state, officials said Sunday. On Saturday night, an additional 14 fatalities were reported by the Butte County […]
CHENNAI, India — India got the benefit of a misfield on the last ball to scrape to a six-wicket victory over the West Indies in the third Twenty20 international and 3-0 sweep of the series. Nicholas Pooran’s whirlwind 53 not out off 25 balls helped West Indies […]
PARIS — For President Donald Trump in Paris, America First meant largely America alone. At a weekend commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, the president who proudly declares himself a “nationalist” stood apart, even on a continent where his brand of populism […]
SHANGHAI — Online shoppers in China have shattered last year’s record by making $30.8 billion in sales on the country’s annual buying frenzy Sunday, as the tradition marked its 10th year. The spending binge has for years eclipsed Cyber Monday in the U.S. for online purchases made on […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s president said he dissolved Parliament and called elections to avoid possible violence inside Parliament and around the country if a vote had to be taken to decide whether his chosen prime minister or his sacked rival had the majority support. In a […]
NEW YORK — Before hopping on a plane to Paris on Friday, President Trump insulted some more reporters, threatened that others may have their White House credentials pulled like CNN’s Jim Acosta and disputed reports that his press secretary spread a doctored video of Acosta’s encounter with a […]
IRAPUATO, Mexico — Local Mexican officials again helped thousands of Central American migrants find rides Sunday on the latest leg of their journey toward the U.S. border. At a toll plaza to the west of the central Mexico city of Queretaro, where the group spent Saturday night, police […]
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