Masked Hong Kong students chant protest slogans at graduation
Hong Kong students, many wearing banned black masks, chanted slogans at their graduation at the Chinese University on Thursday, with some holding up banners urging “Free Hong Kong, Revolution Now”.
South Korea expels two North Koreans suspected of killing 16 fishermen
South Korea expelled on Thursday two North Korean fishermen suspected of killing 16 colleagues before crossing the border into the South last week, South Korea’s Unification Ministry said.
Will Spain finally have a government?
The main candidates in Spain’s fourth national election in four years have already dismissed several possible scenarios for forming a government by agreement should the result be inconclusive.
Lights, camera … cut! Japan soul-searching over freedom of expression
(This version of the Nov. 7 story removes extraneous word in 6th paragraph, fixes typo in 10th)
Passengers, restaurants struggle with water cutoff at Haneda terminal
Tokyo’s Haneda airport was grappling with a water supply cutoff at one of its terminals on Thursday, with passengers washing their hands with bottled water and some restaurants suspending operations, officials said.
In joint case with U.S., China jails nine fentanyl smugglers
A Chinese court on Thursday imprisoned nine people, one of whom received a suspended death sentence, on charges of smuggling fentanyl into the United States, in the first such case the two countries have worked on together.
Under armed escort, mourner convoys reach Mexican village for U.S. family funerals
Convoys of vehicles carrying relatives of a group of American women and children slain by unknown gunmen snaked through the dark from as far away as the United States into a remote Mexican region ahead of funerals for the victims to be held on Friday.
Operations resume at Iraqi port, oil refinery after protesters leave: sources
Operations resumed at a port and an oil refinery in southern Iraq on Thursday after protesters left both areas, port officials, security and oil sources said.
Operations resume at Iraqi port, oil refinery after protesters leave: sources
Operations resumed at a port and an oil refinery in southern Iraq on Thursday after protesters left both areas, port officials, security and oil sources said.
Taiwan warns of possible attack if China’s slowdown ‘becomes serious’
Beijing could resort to military conflict with self-ruled Taiwan to divert domestic pressure if a slowdown in the world’s second largest economy amid trade war threatens the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party, the island’s foreign minister has s…
