JAKARTA– Transgender Indonesian woman Chika Ananda Putrie wakes every morning in her decrepit rented room in a Jakarta slum, worried for…
BEIJING – Chinese state media defended on Wednesday the retaliatory measures against South Korea and Japan over their COVID-19 travel curbs as “reasonable”, while Chinese tourists decried Seoul’s “insulting” treatment…
WASHINGTON — New Jersey and Ohio said on Monday they were joining other states in banning use of the…
LONDON — Some 150 years ago, the acclaimed constitutional writer Walter Bagehot wrote that the British monarchy needed reverence…
FRANKFURT/MUNICH — Hurricane Ian in the United States and floods and Australia helped to make 2022 one of the…
BEIJING — China began retaliating on Tuesday against South Korea and Japan, two of the countries which have imposed…
NEWQUAY, England – Britain’s attempt to become the first European nation to launch satellites into space ended in bitter disappointment early on Tuesday when…
Pfizer Inc. is not in talks with Chinese authorities to license a generic version of its COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid for use there, but is in discussions…
WASHINGTON – Classified documents from Joe Biden’s vice-presidential days were discovered in November by the US president’s personal attorneys at a Washington think tank, a White House lawyer…