Canada lawmaker says Trudeau’s warning against white supremacy is ethnic attack
OTTAWA – Maxime Bernier, the founder of a right-wing party running in Canada’s October federal election, said on Monday that Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s warnings about the dangers of…
Record 17.4 million watch ‘Game of Thrones’ kickoff for final season
LOS ANGELES – Some 17.4 million Americans watched the first episode of the final season of television’s “Game of Thrones” – a record audience for the medieval fantasy series, cable…
“City of lights” plunged into dark sorrow as Notre-Dame burns
PARIS – Distraught Parisians and stunned tourists have gazed in disbelief as a monstrous inferno tore through Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral, one of the world’s best-loved monuments. Thousands of onlookers lined…
Indonesians to vote in world’s biggest single-day election
JAKARTA – Tens of millions of Indonesians will vote in presidential and parliamentary elections this week after campaigns focused on the economy, but with political Islam looming ever larger in…
“Gangnam style” sex crime: K-pop scandals uncover dark side of Seoul’s flashiest district
SEOU – On a recent weekend night, the dance floor at one of the hottest clubs in Seoul’s swanky Gangnam district held only a few dozen people surrounded by mostly…
Clashes erupt in yellow vest protests as Macron prepares policy response
TOULOUSE- Yellow vest demonstrators clashed with riot police in the French city of Toulouse on Saturday, even as President Emmanuel Macron prepared a series of policy announcements aimed at quelling…
Thousands rally in Belgrade to protest against Serbian president
BELGRADE – Thousands of anti-government protesters have gathered in Belgrade to press demands for an end to the rule of President Aleksandar Vucic and his Progressive Party, greater media freedom…
Police open fire as vehicle rams Ukraine embassy car in London; no injuries
LONDON – Police in London opened fire outside the Ukrainian embassy on Saturday after a man rammed his vehicle into the ambassador’s empty parked car at least twice before being…
N.Korea’s Kim Jong Un gives US to year-end to become more flexible
SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says the breakdown in talks with the United States has raised the risks of reviving tensions, and he is only interested in…
With Bouteflika gone, protesters in Algeria demand more change
ALGIERS – Hundreds of thousands of protesters demanding the departure of Algeria’s ruling elite rallied in the North African nation’s capital on Friday and police reported nearly 200 arrests after…
