American cruise passengers quarantined at US military bases
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — More than 300 American cruise ship passengers, including 14 who tested positive for coronavirus, were being quarantine...
US House speaker Pelosi warns allies against using Huawei
BRUSSELS — No NATO ally should succumb to the temptation of letting Chinese tech giant Huawei into their next-generation cellular networks, U.S. House...
Leaked data shows China’s Uighurs detained due to religion
BEIJING — When a Chinese government mass detention campaign engulfed Memtimin Emer's native Xinjiang region three years ago, the elderly Uighur imam w...
EU agrees to end Med anti-smuggler mission off Libya
BRUSSELS — European Union foreign ministers agreed Monday to end Operation Sophia, the bloc’s naval mission in the Mediterranean Sea, and launch a new...
Bloomberg takes veiled swipe at rival’s aggressive loyalists
CARSON CITY, Nev. — With the Nevada caucuses less than a week away, Democratic presidential candidates campaigning were fixated on a rival who wasn't ...
Quarantine ruling: Russia sends woman back after she escapes
MOSCOW — A Russian court on Monday ordered a woman who escaped from a virus quarantine to return back to the hospital she fled and stay under quaranti...
Disgraced religious order tried to get abuse victim to lie
MILAN — The cardinal’s response was not what Yolanda Martínez had expected — or could abide.
Automakers in China gradually reopen after virus shutdown
BEIJING — Automakers are reopening factories in China that were idled by anti-virus controls as they try to reverse a sales slump in their biggest mar...
He’s still standing: Elton John to finish Down Under tour
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Elton John intends to play his remaining shows in New Zealand and Australia, his tour promoters said Monday, a day after ill...
Asian markets mixed: Japan skids; China helped by rate cut
BANGKOK — Markets were mixed in Asia on Monday, with Japan's benchmark slipping 0.8% after the government reported the economy contracted 6.3% in annu...
After abuse scandals, seminarians pledge to ‘get it right’
WYNNEWOOD, Pa. — The seminarians walk along a hallway lined with photos of classes of priests who came before them. Some are pious alumni who have bec...
GM plans to pull out of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand
DETROIT — General Motors says it's pulling out of Australia, New Zealand and Thailand as part of a strategy to exit markets that don't produce adequat...
Floods put Mississippi capital in ‘precarious situation’
JACKSON, Miss. — With the waters in the Pearl River continuing to rise in and around Mississippi's capital city and more rain on the way this week, th...
Steyer foundation mulling SC investments - after the primary
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Ahead of this month’s crucial South Carolina primary, the wife of presidential candidate Tom Steyer that the foundation she runs is i...
French health minister to run for Paris mayor to end scandal
PARIS — France's Health Minister Agnes Buzyn was named on Sunday as a new candidate for mayor of Paris, a late entry by the country's governing party ...
Hungary’s Orban warns about climate crisis, slow EU growth
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s prime minister on Sunday declared the past decade as the most successful of Hungary’s past century, but also said the co...
US secretary of state visits Senegal to start Africa tour
DAKAR, Senegal — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the Trump administration is working to determine what level of American military forces is n...
Elton John, sick with pneumonia, cuts New Zealand show short
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — An emotional Elton John had to cut short a performance in New Zealand on Sunday after he lost his voice due to walking pneumon...
Quicken Loans founder Gilbert back to work after stroke
DETROIT — Quicken Loans founder and Chairman Dan Gilbert is slowly returning to work eight months after suffering a stroke.
Democratic hopefuls now test strength among minority voters
COLUMBIA, S.C. — For I.S. Leevy Johnson, the Democrats’ search for a challenger to take on President Donald Trump is personal.
Stop and frisk gets renewed attention in Bloomberg candidacy
NEW YORK — David Ourlicht was a college student, walking down a street near campus, when he became one of millions of New Yorkers swept up in the era ...
California to apologize for internment of Japanese Americans
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Les Ouchida was born an American just outside California's capital city, but his citizenship mattered little after Japan bombed P...
Wales bears the brunt as Storm Dennis hammers Britain
LONDON — Storm Dennis hammered Britain Sunday, bringing a month's worth of rain in just 48 hours to parts of South Wales, which bore the brunt of the ...
‘Parasite’ director Bong greeted by applause in South Korea
INCHEON, South Korea — Director Bong Joon-ho smiled and waved at a waiting crowd on Sunday as he arrived home in South Korea, his first trip back sinc...
Pot shops turn to highway sponsor signs amid strict ad rules
DENVER — Cannabis companies are using a loophole in Colorado's strict limits on marijuana advertising by sponsoring state highways and putting their n...
Quarantine ends for Germans; Italy to fly citizens from ship
BERLIN — More than 100 Germans evacuated from the hard-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of a new coronavirus outbreak, were set to end their p...
Xi’s early involvement in virus outbreak raises questions
BEIJING — A recent speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping that has been published by state media indicates for the first time that he was leading the ...
Orangutan granted ‘personhood’ turns 34, makes new friend
WAUCHULA, Fla. — A orangutan named Sandra, who was granted legal personhood by a judge in Argentina and later found a new home in Florida, celebrated ...
Writer AE Hotchner, friend to Hemingway, Newman, dead at 102
A.E. Hotchner, a well-traveled author, playwright and gadabout whose street smarts and famous pals led to a loving, but litigated memoir of Ernest Hem...