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Ukraine opens probe of possible surveillance of ambassador

UPDATED: Thu., Jan. 16, 2020

Ukrainian police said Thursday they have opened an investigation into the possibility that the U.S. ambassador came under illegal surveillance by an unknown party before she was recalled from her post in May.

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Hong Kong leader says special status can endure beyond 2047

Thu., Jan. 16, 2020

Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam said Thursday that the ”one country, two systems” framework under which the city enjoys freedoms unknown in China could continue after a 2047 deadline if loyalty to Beijing is upheld.

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Bangladesh says once-submerged island ready for Rohingya

Thu., Jan. 16, 2020

An island in Bangladesh that was regularly submerged during monsoon seasons is ready to house 100,000 Rohingya refugees, but no date has been announced to begin relocating people from crowded and squalid camps on the country’s border with Myanmar, officials said Thursday.

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Parnas used access to Trump’s world to help push shadow Ukraine effort, new documents show

Wed., Jan. 15, 2020

Documents and text messages released Wednesday evening by House Democrats show how Lev Parnas, the former associate of Rudy Giuliani, used the extensive entree he had to President Donald Trump’s world to help put in motion Giuliani’s shadow Ukraine campaign.

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100s of migrants gather in Honduras to attempt new caravan

UPDATED: Wed., Jan. 15, 2020

Hundreds of mainly Honduran migrants started walking and hitching rides Wednesday from the city of San Pedro Sula, in a bid to form the kind of migrant caravan that reached the U.S. border in 2018.

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Kosovo president hurt from intl’ ‘amnesty’ on Serbia crimes

Wed., Jan. 15, 2020

Kosovo’s president on Wednesday denounced what he called “an international amnesty” for Serbia’s crimes in the 1998-1999 war.

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Video: 20 seconds of terror between missiles in Iran crash

Wed., Jan. 15, 2020

Iran’s top diplomat acknowledged Wednesday that Iranians “were lied to“ for days after the Islamic Republic accidentally shot down a Ukrainian jetliner. The admission came as new surveillance footage purported to show two surface-to-air missiles 20 seconds apart shred the airplane and kill all 176 people aboard.

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Airline forced woman to take pregnancy test

Wed., Jan. 15, 2020

Midori Nishida thought she knew what to expect when flying from Hong Kong to Saipan, an island in the Northern Mariana Islands where she grew up. Then, as she was heading to visit her parents on the island, came the curveball.

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UN court to rule next week in Rohingya genocide case

Wed., Jan. 15, 2020

The United Nations’ top court announced Wednesday that it will issue a decision next week on a request to order Myanmar to halt what has been cast as a genocidal campaign against the southeast Asian country’s Rohingya Muslim minority.

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Fever chart: Earth had its hottest decade on record in 2010s

Wed., Jan. 15, 2020

The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday. And scientists said they see no end to the way man-made climate change keeps shattering records.

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Protests take toll on Hong Kong tourism

Wed., Jan. 15, 2020

Visitor numbers to Hong Kong fell by nearly 40% in the second half of last year amid clashes between police and anti-government protesters.

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Putin engineers shakeup that could keep him in power longer

UPDATED: Wed., Jan. 15, 2020

President Vladimir Putin engineered a surprise shakeup of Russia’s leadership Wednesday, proposing changes to the constitution that could keep him in power well past the end of his term in 2024.

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Philippine volcano trembles more, spews lava half-mile high

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 14, 2020

A volcano near the Philippine capital spewed lava into the sky and trembled constantly Tuesday, possibly portending a bigger and more dangerous eruption, as tens of thousands of people fled villages darkened and blanketed by heavy ash.

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EU pressures Iran on atom deal in last-ditch bid to save it

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 14, 2020

Britain, France and Germany on Tuesday ratcheted up pressure on Iran to stop violating its landmark nuclear deal in a last-ditch effort to resolve their differences through talks while also starting a process that could bring back punishing U.N. sanctions on Tehran.

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Nigel Farage gets his way, and last laugh: Brexit is coming

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 14, 2020

Nigel Farage, the self-declared “pantomime villain” of Brexit, is leaving his favorite theater – the European Union’s parliament in Strasbourg – this week with a sense of mission accomplished.

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Spain: Chemical plant explosion kills 1, injures at least 9

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 14, 2020

A massive explosion at a petrochemical plant in northeastern Spain killed one person and gravely injured at least six others Tuesday, regional authorities said.

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Mexico can’t sell presidential jet, tries odd sales pitches

Tue., Jan. 14, 2020

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has made selling off the luxurious presidential jet a centerpiece of his austerity program, but there’s just one problem: Nobody, it seems, wants to buy the white elephant.

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Big Ben, big bucks: Brexit bell plan hits financial hurdle

Tue., Jan. 14, 2020

Will Big Ben bong for Brexit? Not unless British taxpayers cough up the bucks.

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Iran announces arrests over downing of plane that killed 176

UPDATED: Tue., Jan. 14, 2020

Iran said Tuesday that authorities have made arrests for the accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane, which killed all 176 people on board and set off protests in the country demanding accountability after officials initially concealed the cause of the crash.

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Lawyers on strike too, as French pension resistance rages on

Mon., Jan. 13, 2020

In France, even lawyers go on strike. Magistrates draped their black robes on the staircase leading to Lyon’s main courthouse Monday to protest the government’s plans to end the special retirement system for lawyers and others who work in the legal sector. Others arranged weighty legal tomes on the floor to spell “SOS.”