Pyongyang’s hydrogen bomb explosion angers UN, China SEOUL, South Korea — After North Korea said it it has conducted a successful hydrogen bomb test, the United Nations secretary-general condemned the move as a “profoundly destabilizing for regional…
Kalayaan Atin Ito, a group of around 50 members who recently finished a protest in Pagasa (Thitu) Island in the Spratlys in the South China Sea, claimed that during their stay, a Chinese Coast Guard ship and…
Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmakers said yesterday that they will press the government for answers after a fifth employee of a publisher specializing in books critical of mainland China’s leadership went missing. Lawmaker Albert Ho said the city…
VATICAN CITY — Wishing for a year better than 2015, Pope Francis on Friday called for an end to the “arrogance of the powerful” that relegates the weak to the outskirts of society, and to the “false…
SEOUL, South Korea — There’s relief among South Korean and Japanese diplomats after the two countries announced an “irreversible” settlement of a decades-long standoff over Korean women forced into sexual slavery by Japan’s World War II military.…
KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii — President Barack Obama is one of the most powerful men in the world. He’s commander in chief of one of its mightiest militaries, too. Yet in spite of all that, Obama feels…
NEW YORK — Cheap is the new chic for holiday gifts. Jana Montero, who has in the past bought loved ones iPods and tablets for Christmas, has changed her attitude about gift giving: This holiday season, she’s…
SHENZHEN, China — Rescuers were searching Monday for at least 91 missing people a day after a mountain of excavated soil and construction waste buried dozens of buildings when it swept through an industrial park in the…
Miss Universe title goes to Fil-German beauty from Cagayan de Oro Miss Philippines Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach was hailed as Miss Universe 2015 during the coronation night in Las Vegas after a major boo-boo by the pageant host…
LONDON — Leading a country comes with extraordinary privileges but also, apparently, a price: new research suggests that heads of state age faster than normal and that the stress of the job may shave almost three years…
Nearly 200 nations pledge to slow global warming Le Bourget, France — Nearly 200 nations adopted the first global pact to fight climate change on Saturday, calling on the world to collectively cut and then eliminate greenhouse…
TORONTO (AP) — The first Canadian government plane carrying Syrian refugees arrived in Toronto late Thursday where they were greeted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is pushing forward with his pledge to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees…
