Hong Kong police make first arrests under new security law
ZEN SOO
Associated Press
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong police made the first arrests Wednesday under a new national security law imposed by China's...
Russians voters agree to extend Putin’s rule to 2036
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and DARIA LITVINOVA
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — A majority of Russians approved amendments to Russia's constitution in a weeklong vote ending Wednesday,...
Support for Putin wanes in his former Russian stronghold
YULIA ALEXEYEVA and DARIA LITVINOVA
Associated Press
NIZHNY TAGIL, Russia (AP) — In 2011, the industrial city of Nizhny Tagil was dubbed "Putingrad" for its...
EU finalizing virus ‘safe list,’ US unlikely to make the cut
LORNE COOK
Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is edging toward finalizing a list of countries whose citizens will be allowed to enter...
Kosovo president, 9 others indicted on war crimes charges
ZENEL ZHINIPOTOKU and LLAZAR SEMINI
Associated Press
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and nine other former separatist fighters were indicted Wednesday on...
WHO chief warns world leaders not to ‘politicize’ pandemic
JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — World leaders must not politicize the coronavirus pandemic but unite to fight it, the head...
China to establish national security bureau in Hong Kong
BEIJING (AP) — China plans to establish a special bureau in Hong Kong to investigate and prosecute crimes considered threatening to national security, the...
North Korea destroys empty liaison office with South
KIM TONG-HYUNG and HYUNG-JIN KIM
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the...
India says 20 soldiers killed in clash with Chinese troops
AIJAZ HUSSAIN
Associated Press
SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian and Chinese troops fought each other with fists and rocks along the high-altitude terrain of a...
American convicted of spying in Russia, gets 16 years
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court convicted an American corporate security executive Monday of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years...