BEIJING, China - A former vice-chairman of China's banking regulator has been sentenced to life imprisonment, state media reported Friday, the latest target in a crackdown on corruption in the second-largest economy's finance sector. Beijing launched a sprawling campaign to counter graft in...
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday ordered more than 5,600 military personnel to participate in a "defensive" exercise near the border with Guyana, in response to Britain sending a warship to the area. This handout picture released by the Venezuelan Presidency...
HONG KONG, China - Hong Kong democracy activist Tony Chung, who once called for the city's independence and was the youngest person to be jailed under its national security law, said on Friday he would seek asylum in the United Kingdom. This photo taken on December 15, 2023 shows veteran politician...
WASHINGTON, United States - The US state of Maine on Thursday blocked former president Donald Trump from its Republican presidential primary ballot, becoming the second state to disqualify him over his role in the January 2021 assault on the US Capitol. Former US President Donald Trump speaks to...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday that visiting US officials had agreed to keep legal border crossings open, following discussions aimed at addressing surging migration. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (C) attends a meeting with US...
BOBIGNY, France - A 33-year-old French man who admitted to killing his wife and their four children claimed he "heard voices" telling him to "cause harm", a prosecutor said on Thursday. French police on Tuesday arrested a man with a history of psychiatric illness on suspicion of murdering his...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Three people died on Thursday after their car fell into a river in northern England, local police said, as Storm Gerrit battered much of the UK. Police officials can be seen in this picture standing in London. — AFP/File Emergency services headed to the River Esk...
WASHINGTON, United States - An American warship shot down a drone and an anti-ship ballistic missile fired Thursday by Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels, the US military said. In this 2008 image released by the US Navy Visual News Service the guided-missile destroyer USS Mason osteams through the...
SYDNEY, Australia - A shark attacked and killed a 15-year-old boy at a remote surfing spot in South Australia, police said Friday. The marine predator struck Thursday afternoon near Ethel Beach on the Yorke Peninsula, state police said in a statement. "Sadly, the body of a teenage boy was recovered...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Hundreds of Indonesian workers protested Wednesday against conditions at a Chinese-funded nickel-processing plant where an explosion killed at least 18 people and injured dozens more over the weekend. The accident occurred on Saturday morning as workers repaired a furnace...
LONDON, United Kingdom - The UK government said on Wednesday it had dropped its plan to start selling in imperial measures after a consultation revealed 99 percent support for keeping the metric system. Ministers had looked at changing the law after the UK's departure from the European Union...
WASHINGTON, United States - Secretary of State Antony Blinken travelled to Mexico on Wednesday in hopes of tackling surging migration, which has become a major political headache for US President Joe Biden as he enters an election year. The unusual Christmas week trip by the top American...
