Male privilege: The rural Hong Kong men who have special rightsSitting in the spacious courtyard of an 18th-century ancestral hall belonging to his clan, William Liu defiantly rejects a lucrative birthright that his special status as one of Hong Kong's male indig...
Storm-lashed South Carolina reassesses global warming’s roleWhen he took the job 15 years ago, Horry County Emergency Manager Randy Webster figured his biggest disasters would be wind and surge rolling over his county's beaches, South Carolina's top tourist de...
Iran government faces angry online backlash over activists’ abuse claimsIn early January, labour activist Esmail Bakhshi posted a letter on Instagram saying he had been tortured in jail, attracting support from tens of thousands of Iranians online. Bakhshi, who said he wa...
After deadly clashes, Ivorian farmers and herders try dialogueGathered under the spreading baobab tree in Danoa town square, farmers and herders in a remote corner of Ivory Coast are finally talking about a dispute that has poisoned relations and destroyed lives...
In Syria’s Baghouz, dying palms and a wilting IS ‘caliphate’The wilted palms and pomegranate trees at the entrance to Baghouz were struggling to survive, much like diehard Islamic State group fighters in the Syrian village. Pinned down in a patch less than hal...
Abu Dhabi arms fair opens amid Yemen war criticismA biennial arms fair has opened in the United Arab Emirates as the country faces increasing scrutiny over its involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen. While the war went unmentioned at the opening c...
Potential privacy lapse found in Americans’ 2010 census dataAn internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from obscured data, but wit...
World bishops head to Vatican for sex abuse summitPope Francis gathers bishops from around the world at the Vatican this week for a hotly-awaited summit on tackling the wave of child sex abuse scandals assailing the Catholic Church. The heads of arou...
Acting Pentagon chief not decided yet on funding US-Mexico border wallActing US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Saturday he had not yet determined whether a border wall with Mexico was a military necessity or how much Pentagon money would be used. President D...
Dem presidential candidates introducing themselves to votersFive Democratic senators vying for their party's nomination to challenge President Donald Trump in 2020 fanned out across the country Saturday to campaign and meet voters. Kamala Harris of California...
Bernie Sanders recorded presidential campaign video: reportUS Senator Bernie Sanders has recorded a video announcing a 2020 run for president, Politico reported Saturday, an indication that he plans to enter the already crowded field of candidates. But it sti...
Seeking independence ‘is not a crime,’ Barcelona protesters sayTens of thousands of people waving pro-independence flags and holding pictures of jailed Catalan separatist leaders took to the streets of Barcelona on Saturday to call for self-determination for the...
Trump’s nominee for UN ambassador withdraws: State DepartmentFormer Fox News anchor and State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Saturday that she has withdrawn from consideration to be the next US ambassador to the United Nations. “The past two months...
Bangladesh slum fire kills at least eightA fire gutted more than 200 slum houses in the Bangladeshi port of Chittagong on Sunday, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 50, police and fire fighters said. A fire official said th...
Macron condemns anti-Semitic abuse by ‘yellow vest’ protestersFrench President Emmanuel Macron condemned anti-Semitic abuse of a leading intellectual by "yellow vest" protestors and said it would not be tolerated. Police intervened to protect philosopher and wri...
IS ‘caliphate’ on brink of defeat in Syria as Trump urges Europe to do moreUS-backed fighters in Syria are poised to capture Islamic State's last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates, the battle commander said on Saturday, bringing its self-declared caliphate to the brink of total...
No Yes-men: Some resist Cuba government’s constitution push"Yes, yes, yes, yes." On the streets of Havana, it's hard to escape the government's campaign urging voters to endorse the Communist country's new Constitution in a February 24 referendum. Billboards...
Albanian protesters attack PM’s office to demand he quitsProtesters in Albania attacked the prime minister's office with iron bars and petrol bombs on Saturday, demanding his resignation over a scandal-plagued plan to build a ring-road around the capital. S...
More US aid for Venezuela touches down amid distribution uncertaintyA US military transport plane carrying humanitarian aid meant for Venezuelans landed on Saturday in the Colombian border city of Cucuta, where food and medicine is being stored amid uncertainty over h...
China rebuffs Germany’s call for US missile deal with RussiaChina rejected on Saturday German Chancellor Angela Merkel's appeal to join a Cold War-era arms control treaty that the United States accuses Russia of breaching, saying it would place unfair limits o...
Makeshift migrant shelter near border to close soonAn improvised shelter where hundreds of Central American migrants have been confined in the border city of Piedras Negras, across from Eagle Pass, Texas, will close next week, authorities said Saturda...
Joe Biden to decide soon whether to run for US presidencyFormer US Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, said on Saturday he had not yet decided whether to run for president in 2020 but would do so "in the near term". More than two dozen Democrats could ult...