International

Asian shares tumbled on Thursday after Canadian authorities arrested a top executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei for extradition to the United State, fanning fears of a fresh flareup in tensions between the US and China. According to Reuters, the news came as Washington and Beijing begin three months of…

Five primary school children have been killed by a plowing car in northern China. Police say the driver who plowed the car into a group of children outside a primary school, causing at least five deaths and 18 injuries, is in detention, state media said on Thursday. China Central Television…

A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday struck down a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks, ruling that it “unequivocally” violates women’s constitutional rights. The law, considered one of the most restrictive in the country, was passed in March. It had already been put on hold by U.S.…

Banging pots and pans, Chileans protested on Sunday night against the death of an indigenous man shot by police, in a harsh rebuke of conservative President Sebastian Pinera’s handling of relations with the native Mapuche communities. The metallic cacophony could be heard across the capital, Santiago, as protesters demanded the…

Head of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel Hector Beltran Leyva is dead. Leyva, a Mexican drug lord whose cartel earned a reputation as one of the country’s most vengeful and ruthless, died late on Sunday in hospital of cardiac arrest at age 56. He was said to have died after…

A new law aimed at restricting abortion has stirred up protests in Norway. Thousands of protesters demonstrated in Norwegian cities on Saturday against restricting women’s access to abortion, the subject of talks between the ruling minority coalition and a small party seeking to join the government. In Norway’s capital Oslo,…

The US Treasury Department announced a round of sanctions against 17 Saudi Arabians Thursday, in response to the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, according to Cbsnews.com reports. The sanctions fall under an executive order implementing the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. “The Saudi officials we are sanctioning…

A decree perceived to be ‘anti-migrant’ stirred up protest in Rome on Saturday. The recent decree by Italian government places restrictions on the right to asylum. But, several thousand protesters rallied in Rome to protest against what they criticised as unfair anti-migrant policies promoted by far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.…

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd settled roughly 69 billion yuan ($9.92 billion) in the first hour of its annual Singles’ Day on Sunday, up roughly 21 percent from last year’s early haul of 57 billion yuan. Singles’ Day is the world’s biggest online sales event and last year…

Google said on Thursday it would change the way it handles sexual harassment claims, a week after 20,000 of its employees around the world walked off their jobs to protest its response to such issues. According to Reuters, arbitration will become optional for individual sexual harassment and sexual assault claims,…