TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Beijing has accused two Chinese citizens of spying for Britain, in the latest test of an increasingly fraught relationship. China and Britain have clashed over Beijing’s crackdown on freedom of expression and open elections in Hong Kong, a former British territory that was guaranteed its own economic and political freedoms for […]

As an indefinite general strike begins in Nigeria, a worker tells the BBC that it is impossible to survive on what the government proposes as a minimum wage because it is not enough to buy a bag of rice. Security guard Mallam Magaji Garba says he needs 50kg of rice, which costs 75,000 naira ($56;

Left-wing government candidate Claudia Sheinbaum is poised to become Mexico’s first female president in a historic election overshadowed by violence, preliminary results show. Frontrunner Sheinbaum, a former mayor of Mexico City, won between 58.3 and 60.7% of the vote, well ahead of her main challenger Xochitl GalvezThe election authority of the most populous Spanish-speaking country

Rescue forces continue to search for a firefighter who went missing during an operation to rescue residents from severe flooding that ravaged parts of southern Germany this weekend. “The search continues,” a police spokesperson said Monday morning. Heavy rains and flooding in two states caused disruptions throughout the weekend and more rain was expected, the

DUBAI (Reuters) – Forced displacement has driven more than a million people from Gaza’s Rafah town, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said on Monday. The small town on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip was home to about 1 million Palestinians who fled Israeli attacks on other parts of the enclave, aid

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Claudia Sheinbaumwho will be Mexico’s first female leader in the country’s more than 200 years of independence, won the presidency by promising continuity. The 61 year old former mayor of Mexico City and lifelong leftist ran a disciplined campaign that capitalized on her predecessor’s popularity before emerging victorious in Sunday’s election,

LONDON (AP) — Gilbert Clarke leans back on the seat of his mobility scooter, stretches his neck and stares at the clear blue sky above east London as he remembers the moment 80 years ago when he knew the invasion of France was underway used to be. Clarke, then an 18-year-old Royal Airforce volunteer from

TOKYO (AP) — Two Japanese F-35A stealth fighter jets made an emergency landing at a commercial airport in northern Japan on Monday, but there were no injuries or damage, officials said. The jets were on a training flight from Misawa Air Base and landed safely at nearby Aomori Airport after one developed an unspecified mechanical

TOKYO (Reuters) -Toyota Motor said on Monday its chairman would discuss an investigation it conducted into its vehicle certification applications after Japan’s Transport Ministry requested it. Chairman Akio Toyoda will hold a press conference at 0800 GMT on Monday, the company said. The Transport Ministry said separately it will conduct an on-site inspection at Toyota’s

The leader of India’s main opposition party Rahul Gandhi brandished a copy of the Indian Constitution – not the Chinese Constitution, as members of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wrongly suggested – during an election rally. They shared a photo taken at a rally during India’s national elections, but a clearer photo from the