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One expert said some of the evidence the administration has offered is a normal reaction to the ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images   White House claims that China is meddling in the midterms do not ring true to experts and cybersecurity firms that have long tracked Beijing’s digital […]

Prisoners gather in the yard during a fire that raged through Donggala Penitentiary in Donggala regency, Central Sulawesi, following a riot on Sept. 29. (Kompas.com/Kristianto Purnomo) More than 1,000 escaped prisoners in Central Sulawesi remain free following the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that damaged several correctional facilities in the area. During an inspection of six prisons and detention centers […]

The participants applaud during an event to mark the 11th anniversary of the 2007 inter-Korean summit at the People’s Palace of Culture in Pyongyang on Friday. Yonhap-Joint Press Corps A group of South Korean government officials, politicians and civic and religious leaders will return home late Saturday after participating in the celebration of the anniversary […]

Palestinian paramedics carry a wounded protester during clashes with Israeli forces east of Gaza city, along the Gaza-Israel border in the Gaza Strip on October 5, 2018. (AFP Photo) Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed Friday on the Gaza border by Israeli forces during protests. Fares Hafez al-Sersawi, 14, and 24-year-old Mahmud Akram […]

Jila Mossaed and Eric M Runesson. Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall/Janerik Henriksson/TT The Swedish Academy has elected new members for two of its empty seats. The Swedish Academy voted on Thursday to induct laywer Eric M Runesson and writer Jila Mossaed as new members of the two-century-old cultural institution, which hands out the Nobel Prize in […]

Relief and rescue operations continue in Indonesiaafter a massive earthquake and tsunami, as time runs out to find survivors one week after the dual disasters struck Sulawesi Island. According to the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management on Friday, the death toll from the quake and tsunami has risen to 1,571. More than 70,000 homes were […]

Mogadishu –  IOM, the UN Migration Agency, assisted 17 Somali migrants in returning voluntarily from Tanzania, where they had been detained as they embarked on an unsuccessful journey to South Africa. IOM’s intervention was made under the auspices of the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrant Protection and Reintegration in the Horn of Africa (also known […]

 Officials estimate that the total losses from last week’s earthquake and tsunami in Central Sulawesi will likely surpass $658 million, making it one of the costliest disasters to have hit Indonesia in the past five years. The magnitude-7.4 earthquake and 3-meter tsunami that hit Palu, Donggala and Sigi have either crippled or destroyed crucial infrastructure, […]

The 2018 Nobel peace prize was awarded to Denis Mukwege and Yazidi rape victim Nadia Murad on Friday for their work in fighting sexual violence in conflicts around the world. The pair won the award for their “efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war,” Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said […]

US President Donald Trump (C-L) and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (C-R) arrive for the Arabic Islamic American Summit at the King Abdulaziz Conference Center in Riyadh on May 21, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / MANDEL NGAN) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — US President Donald Trump said Tuesday night that Saudi Arabia’s king “might […]