Human rights

Australia & Oceania 10/14/19, 09:20

Upon delivering the 12.9-pound infant last Monday, Oct. 7, an Australian mum jokingly likened her newborn daughter to a "mini sumo wrestler." Wollongong couple Emma and Daniel Millar told Illawarra Mercury, a local news source, that ...

Australia & Oceania 09/03/19, 21:46

A dying father had his final wish granted by kind medics, who went out of their way to help. Brave Chris Shaw, 45, wanted to see his favorite beach one last time after being told his ...

Australia & Oceania 08/13/19, 23:51

Hong Kong hospital staff Tuesday Aug. 13, stepped forward to protest against police brutality and the island territory’s government. Employees from 13 hospitals across Hong Kong participated in the protest, according to a local cable television. Workers ...

Australia & Oceania 08/08/19, 09:09

An angry KFC customer who claimed she was served raw chicken by the fast-food giant has posted pictures of her meal—and claimed her complaint was ignored for nearly a week, according to The Daily Mail. The ...

Australia & Oceania 08/07/19, 20:23

In January 2017, Brendan Lee Burton assaulted his neighbor Anita Christanga, 78, while she was in bed. As a consequence of the assault, the elderly woman suffered many severe wounds, including a broken eye socket, broken ...

Australia & Oceania 08/05/19, 20:38

U.S. Secretary of Defense Dr. Mark Esper arrived in Auckland on Monday, Aug. 5, to meet his New Zealand counterpart Defense Minister Ron Mark, after Esper attended the Australia-US Ministerial meetings in Sydney over the ...

Australia & Oceania 07/13/19, 02:56

Nearly 60 native birds died after "falling from the sky" in front of horrified onlookers in a suspected case of mass poisoning in South Australia, rescuers say. Bird rescuers said it was like “something out of ...

Australia & Oceania 06/26/19, 18:30

A self-driving shuttle bus service has taken to the roads on a route around a university district in South Australia as a part of a five-year trial. South Australia is the one of the first to ...

2020 Campaign 11/08/19, 10:41

An independent candidate promised on Nov. 7 to decommission immigration agencies and weaken the nation's ability to enforce immigration law, if he wins the 2020 presidential election. Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has proposed a ...

Central America 11/05/19, 18:37

At least nine dual US-Mexican citizens, including six children and three women, were shot to death on Monday, Nov. 4, near Rancho La Mora on the border between Sonora and Chihuahua—a shooting attack that relatives ...

Central America 11/03/19, 22:25

Relatives of women and girls murdered or missing in Mexico marched through the capital Sunday carrying over 100 purple crosses inscribed with the names of victims, demanding justice for their loved ones and improved efforts ...

Central America 09/06/19, 13:26

Mexico said it has met a U.S. 90-day deadline to reduce migrant flows across its territory. Foreign Secretary Marcelo Ebrard is to deliver a final report on the Mexican government initiatives on Friday, Sept. 6, three ...

Central America 08/22/19, 23:19

U.S. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan was in Panama City on Thursday, Aug. 22, to meet with security officials and ministers from Central America and Colombia. He tweeted his arrival for the Ninth Northern Triangle ...

Central America 08/10/19, 11:11

Mexican police discovered 19 dead people, some people hanged from an overpass and others butchered and dumped on the road, in what authorities believe is a gang turf war, according to The Associated Press. In the ...

Central America 08/07/19, 00:19

The United States is ready to target any individual or country that supports Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime. On Tuesday, speaking from Peru's capital Lima, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said the Trump administration will start ...

Central America 08/03/19, 15:54

Mexico's Secretary of Foreign Affairs Marcelo Ebrard announced on July 30, that the number of illegal immigrants heading to the United States from Central America has been greatly reduced. Ebrard explained that although 144,278 immigrants ...

Central America 07/25/19, 19:34

Mexico is building a huge shelter for illegal immigrants on its northern border. The facility will allow these people to await for a response to their asylum applications in the United States. In the city of ...

Central America 07/22/19, 15:54

As part of his visit to Latin America, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele met last Sunday at the Presidential House in San Salvador to discuss economic cooperation and measures ...

Central America 07/22/19, 10:30

The Costa Rican Health Ministry said it has confirmed 19 deaths from the consumption of alcohol tainted with methanol. The ministry said in a Friday report that the investigation is continuing, but it has counted 14 ...

Central America 07/12/19, 20:25

Two weeks ago, the Cuban Ministry of Finance published a new list of prices for products sold in CUC (the Cuban equivalent of the dollar) and in pesos. The inventory of prices of food and hygiene ...

Central America 07/12/19, 19:17

As a contingency plan to curb immigration, the Mexican government unveiled the first two U.S. investment projects in the south of the country. The $800 million granted for the region would be for the construction ...

Central America 07/10/19, 19:40

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador fired Mexican doctors or will not renew their contracts this December, and will import Cuban professionals. Due to the socialist president's huge health cut—44%—at least 10,000 Mexican workers in the ...

South America 11/13/19, 17:40

After the protests of Bolivian citizens intensified following the controversial electoral elections of Oct. 20, which led President Evo Morales to resign as head of state, various senators of the Democratic wing such as Bernie ...

South America 11/12/19, 22:44

President Donald Trump praised the Bolivian people for forcing the resignation of socialist leader Evo Morales. In a statement published by the White House, the president stressed that the fall of Morales, after almost 14 years ...

South America 11/10/19, 21:41

Bolivian President Evo Morales resigned Sunday under mounting pressure from the military and the public after his re-election victory triggered weeks of fraud allegations and deadly protests. The decision came after a day of fast-moving developments, ...

South America 11/08/19, 05:13

Brazil's Supreme Court delivered a ruling that could release almost 5,000 inmates still appealing their convictions, including former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and other powerful figures jailed in a sprawling corruption investigation. The court ...

South America 11/01/19, 18:38

The U.S. government is considering sanctioning Spain for the aid that the socialist government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez would be provide to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. According to Bloomberg, the Treasury Department is studying economic ...

South America 11/01/19, 15:43

Amid Chile's social crisis, President Donald Trump said he supports Chilean President Sebastián Piñera's government in its efforts to "restore national order" in the South American country. President Trump called Piñera on Wednesday to express his ...

South America 10/30/19, 12:36

A 13-year-old Brazilian girl has been arrested over the murder of her pregnant sister who she is accused of killing before cutting out her baby and stoning another child to death. Fabiana Santana, 23, was eight ...

South America 10/29/19, 09:50

Fresh protests and attacks on businesses erupted in Chile Monday despite President Sebastián Piñera's replacement of eight key Cabinet ministers with more centrist figures and his attempts to assure the country he has heard calls ...

South America 10/25/19, 13:25

A sick Brazilian boy died after his father blew up the money that was raised for the child's medical treatment on hookers, drugs, and parties instead, according to reports. Two-year-old Joao Miguel Alves died at his ...

South America 10/18/19, 18:26

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Venezuela’s election to the Human Rights Council “is an embarrassment to the United Nations and a tragedy for the people of Venezuela.” Venezuela won a contested election for ...

South America 10/15/19, 20:08

A seven-story building collapsed Tuesday in an upscale part of the Brazilian city of Fortaleza, killing one person and leaving others trapped with some communicating with family members by cellphone from under debris, officials said. Fire ...

Inspired Stories 09/18/19, 12:10

A garbage man created a community library in his own home and donates books to children, believing that education can break the cycle of poverty. Jose Alberto Gutierrez, 55, a garbage man who lives in Bogota, ...

South America 09/17/19, 17:45

The former president of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, ordered his subordinates to coordinate actions to flood the United States with cocaine produced by the Marxist guerrilla FARC, since 2005. U.S. federal prosecutors reported these attempts by the ...

South America 09/13/19, 22:24

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met his visiting Brazilian counterpart, Foreign Minister Ernesto Araujo, at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Speaking at the press conference, the two men affirmed the strategic partnerships between ...

South America 08/30/19, 23:01

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's son and the country's foreign minister visited the White House, on Friday, Aug. 30, seeking U.S. help, as firefighters battled to contain the ravaging wildfires in the Amazon. The Brazilian leader said ...

South America 08/24/19, 17:32

Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday prepared to deploy in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an international outcry. Some 44,000 troops will ...

South America 07/25/19, 19:26

With a clarinet, saxophone, or violin in handcuffed hands, a group of prisoners were transported in a special armored bus to the national theater in the capital of Peru, Lima. The purpose—was for the prisoners to ...

South America 07/13/19, 19:56

Last Friday, the United States government extradited to Colombia former Agriculture Minister Andrés Felipe Arias, who is awaiting conviction in his country for embezzlement among other crimes. The Colombian Embassy in Washington received a note last ...

South America 07/13/19, 18:35

Infant mortality under Nicolás Maduro's regime in Venezuela has soared to the point that analysts are already talking about genocide.  Experts warn that the deterioration of medical and food supplies under Maduro's regime is causing conditions ...

South America 07/12/19, 20:03

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions Thursday on the Maduro regime in Venezuela for assassinating military Captain Rafael Acosta Arévalo. The measure will affect the Directorate General of Military Counterintelligence and will increase pressure on Maduro's ...

America 11/08/19, 04:34

As Mexican soldiers stood guard, a mother and two sons were laid to rest in hand-hewn pine coffins in a single grave dug out of the rocky soil Thursday at the first funeral for the ...

America 11/06/19, 09:34

The eight children, some mere infants, who survived the ambush in northern Mexico not only escaped the drug cartel gunmen who killed their mothers but managed to hide in the brush, with some walking miles ...

America 11/01/19, 22:58

A Winnipeg, Canada toddler, who was stabbed multiple times while he slept in his bed on Wednesday, Oct. 30, is to be taken off life support. Hunter Haze Straight-Smith, 3, who suffered severe brain damage, is ...

America 10/18/19, 19:54

Mexican security forces aborted an attempt to capture a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman after finding themselves outgunned in a ferocious shootout with cartel henchmen that left at least eight people ...

America 07/05/19, 21:21

A campaign of pro-life groups has been collecting donations for migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. The initiative is called Bottles to the Border and is led by former employees of abortion clinics and pro-life ...

South America 07/05/19, 17:34

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro once again said he would like U.S. President Donald Trump to visit South America to discuss the Venezuelan crisis with the presidents of the region. On Wednesday night, July 3, during an ...

America 07/03/19, 20:23

Mexican authorities are investigating several reports of illegal immigrants trying to buy children to enter the United States, and obtain family unit benefits. According to testimony gathered by the Seattle Times from locals and the police, ...

South America 07/02/19, 15:23

Tens of thousands of tourists flocked to cities and towns across northern Chile to stake out spots in one of the world's best locations to witness Tuesday's total solar eclipse. Millions are expected to gaze at ...

America 06/28/19, 23:03

An engineer shouted for the young migrant woman to hurry up and climb aboard the freight train or she'd be left behind. In her bright red tennis shoes, she quickened her pace and was the ...

America 06/28/19, 21:28

Megan Rapinoe went from controversy to triumph, scoring twice for the United States in the much-anticipated clash with host France to send the defending champions into the semifinals of the Women's World Cup with a ...

America 06/28/19, 05:35

About 100 Mexican soldiers and immigration agents raided a freight train in the southern state of Chiapas on Thursday and detained dozens of Central American migrants riding atop the cars. Such raids had been rare since ...

America 06/26/19, 14:57

U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams assured that President Donald J. Trump supports political change in Venezuela during a briefing session on Tuesday, June 25. Abrams’s affirmative declaration came after a Washington Post article, citing ...

America 06/25/19, 02:36

Around 15,000 soldiers and National Guard policemen have been deployed by the Mexican government to the U.S. border in a bid to check migration flow from Central America, the country's defense chief told reporters on ...

America 06/21/19, 22:16

Mexico has completed its deployment of 6,000 National Guardsmen to help control the flow of migrants headed to the United States and filled 650 immigration agency posts to regulate border crossings, the government said on ...

America 06/21/19, 21:58

The deaths of eight American tourists in the Dominican Republic this year are not part of a mysterious wave of fatalities but a medically and statistically normal phenomenon that has been lumped together by the ...

America 06/21/19, 00:55

íMexico and El Salvador signed a cooperation agreement Thursday that includes a $30 million Mexican donation for reforestation in the Central American nation, amid increased pressure from the United States to slow a surge of ...

Trending 06/18/19, 18:26

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced Monday, June 17, that it is ready to send women to the moon—50 years after the first Apollo mission! The new space mission is aptly named Artemis, after ...

America 06/17/19, 21:18

The huge blackout that left tens of millions of people in the dark in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay over the weekend raised serious questions about the vulnerability of the power grid in South America and ...

America 06/17/19, 02:27

Mexican authorities increased immigration enforcement along well-traveled routes for migrants in southern Mexico over the weekend, checking identifications, pulling migrants off public transport and intercepting four trucks packed with nearly 800 migrants. The National Migration Institute ...

America 06/16/19, 20:47

A massive blackout left tens of millions of people without electricity in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay on Sunday after an unexplained failure in the neighboring countries' interconnected power grid. Authorities were working frantically to restore ...

Europe 11/13/19, 11:09

A man resigned from his job in the most hilarious way possible by giving his boss a condolence card instead of a letter of notice. The outside of the card reads, "So very sorry for your ...

Europe 11/12/19, 16:01

Controversial multimillionaire George Soros, whose organizations and establishments have been expelled from several countries accused of interfering in sovereign policies, could face an investigation for illegally funding a campaign to take down Boris Johnson. The complaint, ...

Europe 11/11/19, 20:25

The dazzling rise of the conservative VOX party in Sunday's elections in Spain has shaken the foundations of the "progressive consensus" that had dominated institutions, the media, and political life for the last two decades. The ...

Inspired Stories 11/11/19, 11:03

Being born at 23 weeks and weighing less than 1 pound each, Joe and Ashley Keates were each only the size of their mother Talia's hand. The twin boys are believed to the smallest newborns ...

Europe 11/10/19, 12:35

Police and organizers say more than 100,000 people took part in an open-air party celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Despite the cold and damp, crowds flocked to Berlin's Brandenburg Gate ...

Europe 11/08/19, 20:06

An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, who was honored as a "life senator," is now under police protection after receiving hundreds of threats. Liliana Segre, who survived after being sent to Auschwitz when she was 13 years old, ...

Europe 11/08/19, 17:09

Nov. 9 commemorates the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, an event that paved the way for the reunification of Germany. Thirty years ago thousands of people with axes and hammers knocked down ...

Europe 11/08/19, 10:46

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is stressing the need for allied democracies to work together, saying that the Trump administration's stances on NATO spending, Iran, Chinese technology and a new Russian-German pipeline are meant ...

Europe 11/08/19, 10:27

A short drive through the narrow streets of Villarreal can give you an idea about what matters most in this small city in eastern Spain. Only a few buildings stand out — the large ceramics factories ...

Europe 11/08/19, 01:30

A teenager who is nonverbal and is severe on the autism spectrum went to the same barber for nearly his entire life. But one day two years ago he had another idea to have his ...

Inspired Stories 11/08/19, 01:24

After a three-year battle with rare blood cancer, 11-year-old Oliver Brown of Devon, United Kingdom, whose family celebrated Christmas early out of fears he may not make it, died on Saturday evening, Nov. 2. Oliver was ...

Europe 11/06/19, 09:01

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has compared his main rival to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin as he prepares to officially launch the governing Conservative Party's campaign for the Dec. 12 election. Johnson, writing in the Daily ...

Inspired Stories 11/01/19, 09:09

An 82-year-old man from Ramsgrange, County Wexford, has become one of Ireland’s oldest third-level graduates after receiving a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English and Irish on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. Tom Boyle joined 2,457 other ...

Europe 10/31/19, 23:15

A new survey conducted by the international firm of surveys and market research, IFOP (French Institute of Public Opinions), showed that 61% of French people think that Islamism is "incompatible with the values of French ...

Inspired Stories 10/29/19, 00:52

Michael's mother, Emma Labuschagne, could not hold back her emotions recalling the moment her 14-week-old son woke up from a five-day coma and smiled at his dad. The young mother of  two called her son ...

Europe 10/24/19, 11:47

Ada Keating, 98 years old, originally from Wavertree, England, moved into a Liverpool care home to take care of her 80-year-old son, Tom Keating. Tom is Ada's eldest child, he never married and lived with Ada ...

Europe 10/24/19, 00:34

U.K. police have launched a murder investigation after 39 dead bodies were discovered in a tractor-trailer about 20 miles east of London, police said Wednesday, Oct. 23. Emergency services were quickly deployed to an industrial park ...

Europe 10/21/19, 08:51

Firefighters say a fire has burned about one-fourth of the roof of Turin's Cavallerizza Reale, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the center of the northern Italian city, hitting an area of the building once ...

Europe 10/19/19, 19:47

A defiant Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Saturday that he would resist attempts to delay Britain's departure from the European Union beyond the end of the month, though he appeared to have no choice but ...

Europe 10/18/19, 15:59

More than 300 suspected pedophiles fell worldwide after an investigation into the dark web that trafficked tens of millions of child abuse videos. The international police operation began with the arrest and conviction of 29-year-old Briton ...

Politics 11/08/19, 11:31

Ivanka Trump on Friday, Nov. 8, echoed her father's view that the House impeachment investigation is an attempt to overturn the 2016 election. But she called the identity of the impeachment whistleblower "not particularly relevant." President ...

Africa 10/17/19, 00:57

An extraordinary haul of 20 wooden coffins dating back to Ancient Egypt and pharaonic times has been revealed by archaeologists. Archaeologists found the coffins in an ancient necropolis in Al-Assasif, an ancient cemetery on the west ...

Africa 10/15/19, 10:05

Mariam Nabatanzi, a 40-year-old woman from the Mukono District of Uganda, was named the most fertile woman in the African country after it was confirmed that she had given birth to 44 children. Nabatanzi is known as ...

Africa 10/11/19, 10:19

The story of a man from Nigeria is proof that dreams come true, especially when you work hard and never lose faith. His dream of becoming a pilot if finally realized after 24 years of ...

Africa 09/06/19, 10:50

A pastor, in south Africa, who has been spearfishing for the past decade miraculously survived without any major injuries after he accidentally shot himself straight through his head with a speargun. The horrific incident occurred on ...

U.S. 08/31/19, 14:52

Thousands of African immigrants who arrived on the southern border of the United States demanded immediate entry into the country. In a statement the 3,000 immigrants from some 16 African countries such as Angola, Burkina Faso, ...

Africa 08/30/19, 19:58

The United States sanctioned a Lebanese bank on Thursday for facilitating the financial activities of the terrorist group Hezbollah. The Treasury Department accused the Jammal Trust Bank, and its subsidiaries, of "brazenly enabling" the financial activities ...

News 05/30/19, 22:55

Over 1,200 people have died in the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo). According to Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Border, this is the worst ever reported ...

Africa 05/30/19, 09:24

Sudan's protesters are threatening a civil disobedience campaign if the ruling military refuses to hand over power to civilians.The threat comes after a two-day strike meant to pressure the military showed no tangible effects.The coalition ...

Africa 05/30/19, 08:55

Mozambique says it needs $3.2 billion to recover from a pair of powerful tropical cyclones that ripped into the southern African nation earlier this year and left hundreds dead, raising alarm about the effects of ...

Africa 05/30/19, 01:42

The fate of several teams vying for places in the Super Rugby playoffs is likely to be sealed in this weekend's 16th round.If the Chiefs can't beat the Crusaders in Fiji, if the Waratahs can't ...

Africa 05/29/19, 18:35

Farmers in Kenya are swapping high-risk crops for silkworms. In a bid to find a profitable crop to sustain their livelihoods, many farmers are turning to silk production and ditching traditional cash crops such as ...

Africa 05/29/19, 16:36

Yasir Arman says he wants to help resolve the ongoing standoff on who should lead Sudan's transitional government

Africa 05/29/19, 15:15

WHO officials say success hinges on improving security in Congo's conflict zones

Africa 05/29/19, 12:14

A prominent Egyptian militant wanted for scores of terror attacks in his country was handed over by Libyan forces loyal to a commander pushing to take the capital of Tripoli and flown back to Egypt ...

Africa 05/29/19, 12:08

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari began his second term as head of Africa's most populous nation on Wednesday, facing heightened pressure to defeat Islamic extremism and boost the oil-dependent economy amid concerns over his health.The 76-year-old ...

Africa 05/28/19, 15:55

Report alleges that security forces, who have been conducting military operations against Islamist insurgents in region, have engaged in unlawful action against civilians

Africa 05/28/19, 14:56

Malawi's President Peter Mutharika on Tuesday called for unity as he was sworn in for a second five-year term after an election in which top opposition parties alleged irregularities.The 78-year-old Mutharika began his acceptance speech ...

Africa 05/28/19, 08:39

Sudan's protest leaders have launched a two-day general strike to press the ruling military to hand over power to a civilian-led authority.Wajdi Saleh, a negotiator for the protesters, says they resorted to holding the strike ...

Africa 05/28/19, 08:13

Government says it has embarked on a safe mining campaign targeting small-scale miners

Asia & Pacific 11/12/19, 18:42

Shocking videos showing the brutality with which Hong Kong police are repressing pro-democracy demonstrations are going viral on social networks giving visibility to the massive civil rights movement occupying the streets of the city since ...

Asia & Pacific 11/12/19, 11:12

A pair of Israeli airstrikes targeted senior Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza and in Syria early on Tuesday, escalating Israel's confrontation with Iran across the region and threatening to unleash another devastating round of cross-border ...

Asia & Pacific 11/11/19, 19:41

Hong Kong police have gone to an extreme, acting irresponsibly and using brutal tactics against protesters in the latest face-off with the young pro-democracy activists. At 7: 30 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 11, Hong Kong police ...

Asia & Pacific 11/11/19, 09:45

Shares declined on world markets on Monday as investors awaited developments in the China-U.S. trade war saga after President Donald Trump said Washington had not agreed to gradually roll back tariffs as negotiations progress. Britain's FTSE ...

Asia & Pacific 11/10/19, 10:46

Iran on Sunday said an open Revolutionary Court case involving an ex-FBI agent who disappeared there in 2007 on an unauthorized CIA mission "was a missing person" filing, not a sign that the man was ...

Asia & Pacific 11/08/19, 09:44

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck northwestern Iran early Friday, killing at least five people and injuring over 300 others, officials said. The temblor struck Tark county in Iran's Eastern Azerbaijan province at 2:17 a.m., Iran's seismological ...

Asia & Pacific 11/07/19, 08:54

Japan's top automaker Toyota said Thursday its net profit edged 1% higher in July-September as vehicle sales grew around the world. Toyota Motor Corp.'s profit for the second fiscal quarter totaled 592 billion yen ($5.4 billion), ...

Asia & Pacific 11/06/19, 15:58

A lone attacker on Wednesday stabbed eight people, including four foreign tourists and their tour guide, at a popular archaeological site in northern Jordan, security officials said. The incident in Jerash, one of the country's most ...

Asia & Pacific 11/06/19, 09:20

Gunmen in insurgency-wracked southern Thailand killed 15 village defense volunteers and wounded five security personnel in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on government forces since the separatist rebellion began 15 years ago. Blood-stained ...

Asia & Pacific 11/04/19, 21:18

Turkey captured the elder sister of the slain leader of the Islamic State group in northwestern Syria on Monday, according to a senior Turkish official, who called the arrest an intelligence "gold mine." Little is known ...

Asia & Pacific 10/31/19, 09:49

A massive fire caused by a cooking gas stove erupted Thursday on a train traveling in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, killing at least 71 passengers, officials said. Flames roared through the train cars as the train ...

Asia & Pacific 10/30/19, 08:08

U.S. national security adviser Robert C. O'Brien and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross will represent President Donald Trump at two regional summits in Thailand this weekend, the White House announced, a move that would widely be ...

Asia & Pacific 10/29/19, 10:10

Masked gunmen opened fire at Iraqi protesters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala on Tuesday, killing 18 people and wounding hundreds, security officials said, in one of the deadliest single attacks on protesters since ...

Asia & Pacific 10/18/19, 14:22

An explosion rocked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan as dozens of people gathered to offer Friday players, causing the roof to collapse and killing 62 worshippers, provincial officials said. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of ...

Asia & Pacific 10/15/19, 20:02

A 4-day-old baby girl, who was found buried alive in a cemetery in northern India, was hospitalized in critical condition, police said. The baby was pulled to safety by a couple in Uttar Pradesh, India, on ...

Asia & Pacific 10/15/19, 18:39

When the ball smashed into a photo of LeBron James' face stuck above the hoop and dropped into the basket, the Hong Kong protesters cheered. They also trampled on jerseys bearing his name and gathered in ...

Asia & Pacific 10/15/19, 15:56

Tens of thousands of people gathered in downtown Hong Kong to ask the international community, and particularly the United States, to help stop the interference of the Chinese communist regime in the semi-autonomous territory, reported ...

Asia & Pacific 10/13/19, 07:22

Helicopters, boats and thousands of troops were deployed across Japan Sunday to rescue people stranded in flooded homes Sunday as the death toll from a ferocious typhoon climbed to at least 19 with more than ...

Politics 10/12/19, 18:24

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) accompanied Taiwanese authorities in celebrating the country's National Day on Oct. 10, strengthening U.S. support for this independent democratic nation that had been commemorating this day since 1911. Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph ...

Asia & Pacific 10/12/19, 14:23

A heavy downpour and strong winds pounded Tokyo and surrounding areas on Saturday as a powerful typhoon forecast to be Japan's worst in six decades made landfall and passed over the capital, where streets, nearby ...

World 11/09/19, 00:12

A man in China who woke up with sharp pain inside of his ear was shocked to find out that a cockroach and more than 10 of its babies had made a home inside of ...

World 11/08/19, 05:31

U.S.-Chinese trade contracted again in October, despite optimism about possible progress in talks aimed at ending a tariff war that threatens global economic growth. Chinese imports of U.S. goods fell 14.3% from a year earlier to ...

U.S. 11/07/19, 10:51

A Chinese court sentenced nine fentanyl traffickers on Thursday in a case that is the culmination of a rare collaboration between Chinese and U.S. law enforcement to crack down on global networks that manufacture and ...

U.S. 11/05/19, 19:30

The United States has collected more than $35 billion in tariffs on imports from China according to data from the Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). President Donald Trump began in 2018 an increase in ...

U.S. 11/05/19, 16:26

A panel of experts warned of the dangers for the country if the Chinese communist regime continues to increase its capacity as a global supplier of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), reported The Epoch Times. “As of ...

World 11/04/19, 15:06

Twenty-three countries condemned the regime of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on Oct. 29 before the U.N. for the serious human rights violations it commits against religious minorities in China. In a statement presented by UK ...

World 10/31/19, 12:15

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday, Oct. 30, accused China’s Communist Party of running hostile policies against U.S. interests, saying that American people, under the leadership of President Donald Trump, have now realized the ...

World 10/18/19, 13:34

The rift between the NBA and China appeared to widen again Friday, as the fallout over Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey's tweet in support of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong continued. A day after NBA ...

World 10/09/19, 17:53

The Chinese will have to undergo a facial recognition test to connect to the internet in China, either by telephone or computer, reported The Epoch Times. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), a body ...

Asia & Pacific 10/08/19, 21:08

The Trump administration on Tuesday slapped travel bans on Chinese officials involved in a massive crackdown against Uighurs and other Muslim minorities in its west. The State Department said it would not issue visas to Chinese ...

Asia & Pacific 10/06/19, 09:42

Shouting "Wearing a mask is not a crime," tens of thousands of protesters braved the rain Sunday to march in central Hong Kong, as a court rejected a second attempt to block a ban on ...

U.S. 10/03/19, 19:28

The government recently announced that it will stop importing clothing, precious metals, and other goods suspected of having been produced by forced labor in various parts of the world. One of the companies sanctioned is ...

Asia & Pacific 10/01/19, 21:56

In a fearsome escalation of violence, Hong Kong police shot a protester in the chest at close range Tuesday, leaving the teenager bleeding and howling on the ground. Tens of thousands joined anti-government demonstrations that ...

World 09/30/19, 14:51

Sen. Ted Cruz condemned the Chinese communist regime for systematically practicing "brutal and terrifying" forced organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China, the Epoch Times reported. "The CCP not only tortures and murders Falun Gong ...

Asia & Pacific 09/29/19, 10:32

The Latest on protests in Hong Kong (all times local): 6:30 p.m. Thousands of people have marched in Taiwan in support of Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests. Protestors run as police use tear gas in Hong Kong, Sunday, Sept. ...

Asia & Pacific 09/29/19, 08:01

Thousands of protesters regrouped after police fired tear gas at them Sunday and marched along a thoroughfare in downtown Hong Kong in a second straight day of defiance, sparking fears of more violence ahead of ...

World 09/25/19, 19:41

The United States denounced "the horrors of state repression" of human rights perpetrated by the Chinese regime, in the words of Under Secretary of State John J. Sullivan on Sept. 24 at the United Nations ...

World 09/24/19, 14:57

In a video taken from the air, hundreds of prisoners can be seen blindfolded and shackled, sitting on the hard concrete floor with their skinheads bowed in an attitude of submission to the numerous guards ...

Asia & Pacific 09/03/19, 20:51

Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong Chifung and other prominent pro-democracy activists arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday, Sept. 3rd, for a two-day visit. Wong, a major figure in Hong Kong’s ongoing pro-democracy protests, urged the Taiwanese people to ...

U.S. 08/31/19, 18:25

A Wall Street Journal reporter was forced to leave Chinese territory on Aug. 30 after authorities declined to renew his press credentials, the Wall Street Journal reported. This is journalist Chun Han Wong, who reported in ...