2015-11-12 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Vote counting continues in Myanmar, but international observers say the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) is heading for a landslide win.Questions remain how much auth

2015-11-12 所属栏目:AS IT IS

For all eight years of his son’s presidency, former President George Herbert Walker Bush was supportive.But in a new book about his life in politics, President George Herbert

2015-11-12 所属栏目:AS IT IS

For a North Korean official, not appearing at a state funeral can mean a fall from power.Choe Ryong Hae, 65, was not listed among the 170 officials attending a North Korean state f

2015-11-12 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Uganda is experiencing some of its most unpredictable weather in 20 years.Weather experts say the reason is El Niño: a climate event that affects weather conditions worldwid

2015-11-11 所属栏目:AS IT IS

What’s the biggest online shopping day in the world?Not Valentine’s Day.Not Cyber Monday or Black Friday. They are the days that follow Thanksgiving in the U.S. and ush

2015-11-11 所属栏目:AS IT IS

A Detroit suburb has made history by electing a city council where a majority of members are Muslim.The town of Hamtramck has four Muslim-Americans as city council members. Two cou

2015-11-11 所属栏目:AS IT IS

It remains unclear why a shooter killed five people at a Jordan police training center Monday, a U.S. State Department official said.The shooter killed two Jordanians, two American

2015-11-10 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Leaders from Taiwan and China met Saturday for the first time since the end of the civil war in China, more than 65 years ago.The meeting was an effort to create goodwill between t

2015-11-10 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Election results in Myanmar show big victories for Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) party she leads.Voter turnout reached 80 percent, according to the G

2015-11-10 所属栏目:AS IT IS

U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Washington Monday.The two leaders discussed security issues in the Middle East and U.S. military ai

2015-11-10 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Three Cambodian men are in custody after attacks on rival lawmakers last month in Phnom Penh.The suspects are Chay Sarith, Mao Hoeurn and Suth Vanny. They gave up to police last we

2015-11-09 所属栏目:AS IT IS

More candidates running for president oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal (TPP) than support it.Democratic frontrunner Hillary Rodham Clinton is the latest to declare h

2015-11-09 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Observers say recent events have increased the chances of Brazil’s president being forced from office.The experts are saying that President Dilma Rousseff could face impeachm

2015-11-09 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Facebook is launching a news mobile app called Notify with subscription content from media partners like the Washington Post and Vogue.The Notify app lets users subscribe to conten

2015-11-08 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Intelligence officials are questioning the security at the Sharm el-Sheikh airport in Egypt.And investigators say they suspect the crash of an airliner that took off from Sharm el-

2015-11-08 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Tanzania swore in its new president, John Magufuli, on Thursday amid disputes about the election. The ceremony took place in the capital, Dar es Salaam. Magufuli took the oath of o

2015-11-08 所属栏目:AS IT IS

America’s tallest monument dominates the skyline of St. Louis, Missouri, the largest city on Route 66 between Chicago and Los Angeles. The Gateway Arch represents the beginni

2015-11-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Russian President Vladimir Putin has stopped all Russian airline flights to Egypt.Investigators are looking for clues about how a jetliner was downed last week. U.S. intelligence s

2015-11-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Sprint has become the first United States-based telecommunications company to provide direct roaming mobile phone service to foreigners in Cuba. The deal was announced Monday in Ha

2015-11-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Villagers in the Niger River Delta area of Nigeria say they live in unclean conditions because oil companies have not cleaned up spills.The claims against Shell Oil Company and Ita

2015-11-07 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The global cybersecurity market is expected to grow 121 percent in the next five years, says a new study.The size of the industry will grow from $77 billion in 2015 to $170 billion

2015-11-06 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Workers at a collapsed Pakistani factory begged for rescue and called for help on mobile phones Thursday.One of the trapped workers told a Pakistani television station the roof col

2015-11-06 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The National Medical Council in Cameroon is calling on government officials to close 1,000 hospitals it says are operating illegally.The council says the hospitals do not have enou

2015-11-05 所属栏目:AS IT IS

The defense minister of Malaysia says he supports America navigating the South China Sea.Last week, the United States Navy sent the USS Lassen within 12 nautical miles of a Chines

2015-11-05 所属栏目:AS IT IS

Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi, 71, has died in Baghdad.Chalabi influenced American lawmakers and presidential advisers to invade Iraq and overthrow the Saddam Hussein government i