Trump disbands business councils
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK -- President Donald J. Trump disbanded two high-profile business advisory councils on Wednesday after several chief executive officers (CEOs) quit in protest...
Treaty to curb mercury risk takes effect
PARIS -- A 128-nation treaty to curb exposure to the dangerous heavy metal mercury entered into force Wednesday, the United Nations announced on the...
Venezuela’s truth commission to probe opposition
CARACAS -- Opposition candidates running in Venezuela’s October gubernatorial elections will be investigated to make sure none were involved in violent political protests this...
Indonesia president pledges to tackle extremism
JAKARTA -- Indonesia’s president said on Wednesday that the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country needed to pull together to meet the threat of extremism...
Japan, US conduct live-fire drill amid regional tension over Pyongyang
ENIWA -- Some 300 Japanese and US military personnel on Wednesday carried out live-fire artillery training in northern Japan, officials said, amid high regional...
North Korea leader holds off on Guam missile plan
SEOUL -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un said Tuesday he would hold off on a planned missile strike near Guam, but warned the highly...
Guam officials ‘ecstatic’ as North Korea holds off attack
HAGATNA -- Guam officials were “ecstatic” Tuesday as North Korea appeared to back away from its threat to fire four missiles towards the US...
270 bodies recovered from Sierra Leone mudslide — mayor
FREETOWN -- Rescue workers have recovered 270 bodies so far from a mudslide in the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown and the search...
Asian neighbors protest as Abe sends offering to war dead shrine
TOKYO -- China and South Korea called on Japan to face up to its wartime past after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an offering...
Murder suspect in Charlottesville violence faces court hearing
CHARLOTTESVILLE -- A man said to have harbored Nazi sympathies as a teenager before a failed bid to join the US Army was due...
17 dead in Burkina Faso bistro ‘terrorist attack’
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO -- Seventeen people have been killed and eight injured in a “terrorist attack” on a restaurant in Burkina Faso’s capital, the...
Korea tensions ease as US plays down war risks
SEOUL/BEIJING -- Tensions on the Korean peninsula eased slightly on Monday as South Korea’s president said resolving Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions must be done peacefully...