International
TRIPOLI, Libya — At least 40 people have been killed and another 80 injured after an airstrike hit a migrant center east of the Libyan capital of Tripoli early Wednesday, according to the Health Ministry’s emergency service Field Medicine and Support Center. Images from the ground showed piles of rubble left where the buildings had been, while emergency […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. is threatening tariffs on an additional $4 billion in European imports in a dispute over aircraft subsidies. The office of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Monday put out a list of 89 products that could be subject to new tariffs. The list includes coffee, cheese, meats, pasta, certain metal […]
(CNN) — President Donald Trump shook hands with Kim Jong Un on Sunday and took 20 steps into North Korea, making history as the first sitting US leader to set foot in the hermit kingdom. Trump crossed the low stone curb separating the North and South at 3:45 p.m. local time, making his way alongside […]
BEIJING — The massacre of unarmed citizens by soldiers in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, should not be referred to as “suppression,” a Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman told reporters Thursday. Next Tuesday, June 4, marks 30 years since Chinese troops ended several weeks of protests by firing at civilians, killing hundreds if not thousands of […]
UNDATED — The moon is slowly shrinking over time, which is causing wrinkles in its crust and moonquakes, according to photos captured by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Unlike Earth, the moon doesn’t have tectonic plates. Instead, as the moon’s interior has cooled over the last several hundred million years, it has caused the surface to […]
MEXICO CITY — A Japanese man died on board a flight from Mexico City to Tokyo with 246 packets of cocaine in his stomach. Identified only as Udo N., the 42-year-old passenger flew from Bogota, Colombia, to the Mexican capital, where he transferred to a flight to Narita airport, Tokyo, according to a […]
LONDON — Fiat Chrysler proposes merger with Renault to create carmaking powerhouse Two of the world’s biggest carmakers may soon join forces. Fiat Chrysler said Monday that it had submitted a merger proposal to French rival Renault. Each carmaker would control half of the merged entity, it added. Renault said in a statement that […]
LONDON — UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced her resignation, finally bowing to intense political pressure over the failure to deliver her signature policy — Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. May said Friday she would quit as leader of the Conservative Party on June 7, but would stay on as Prime Minister until a […]
GABORONE, Botswana. — Botswana has scrapped its ban on hunting, citing an increase in conflicts between elephants and humans during the five years the rule was in place. The southern African nation, which is home to 130,000 elephants — or around one third of the continent’s population — imposed the ban in 2014 to deter poaching. […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Six people were killed and more than 200 injured in Indonesia’s capital amid angry protests against the results of the country’s recent general election. On Tuesday, the General Elections Commission confirmed that incumbent President Joko Widodo — known as Jokowi — had won 55.5{fa7adc80df2e023940cc66418ee6bf3ea4951b478396a103014e7d5f7d7da9d3} of the vote, securing a second term as leader of […]