WASHINGTON — Hours after Republican leader Kevin McCarthy finally clinched the US House speaker role, his party was already…
RUSSIA’s overnight bombing of regions in eastern Ukraine killed at least one, local officials said on Sunday, after Moscow…
HONG KONG/SHANGHAI — Travelers began streaming across land and sea crossings from Hong Kong to mainland China on Sunday,…
SYDNEY – The COVID pandemic has blown a million-person hole in Australia’s population projections in a challenge for an economy that has relied on having more consumers to…
WASHINGTON – A US warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday, part of what the US military calls routine activity but which has riled China. In recent years,…
US pharma giant Pfizer Inc. said on Thursday it is planning to realign its early-stage research into treatments for rare diseases and oncology, to focus on areas like rare and benign hematology.…
LONDON/MADRID – Britain’s Prince Harry says his older brother and heir to the throne Prince William knocked him to the floor…
SINGAPORE – Southeast Asia’s tourist economies are set to be leading beneficiaries of China’s scrapping of travel bans as they have steered clear of the COVID-19 tests before entry that…
LONDON/BRUSSELS — Record-high winter temperatures swept across parts of Europe over the new year, bringing calls from activists for…