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MANILA—China banned induction furnaces last year in a crackdown on polluting producers of low-quality steel, but the equipment has made its way to parts of Southeast Asia, putting pressure on ...

A man with Down syndrome retired after working at Australian McDonald’s for 32 years, according to reports this ...

A British tourist who was backpacking in Thailand might “never walk again” after breaking her neck while diving. ...

NEW DELHI—India will give financial assistance of $1.4 billion to the Maldives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on ...

A teenager died after his parachute failed to open when he jumped off a 14-story building in Ukraine, ...

JAKARTA—A renewed search for the cockpit voice recorder of a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java ...

Canada must stick to the universal values such as the rule of law in dealing with China diplomatically ...

LONDON—Uber Technologies Inc welcomed on Dec. 17, the British government's response to a review into workplace rights, which ...

ATHENS—A powerful blast smashed windows and wrecked offices at Greece's SKAI TV in Athens on Dec. 17, in ...

As part of a package of laws to protect Australia against covert foreign political interference, a law banning ...

Germany has agreed to one-time payments for survivors, primarily Jews, who were evacuated from Nazi Germany as children, ...

MEXICO CITY—Mexico's new leftist government presented a first budget aimed at calming nervous markets while honoring pledges to ...

Brazilian ranch manager Marcos Aurelio de Queiroz wants to triple the number of cattle his company, CSM Agropecuaria, ...

Italy’s squabbling populist coalition partners were to meet on Dec. 16 to seek agreement on key parts of ...

SAQQARA, Egypt—Egypt unveiled a well-preserved 4,400-year-old tomb decorated with hieroglyphs and statues south of Cairo on Dec. 15, ...

SANAA, Yemen—A ceasefire agreed between Yemen's warring parties in Hodeidah will begin on Dec. 18, sources from both ...

EBOLOWA, Cameroon—Activists say a company controlled by a Chinese-state owned conglomerate in Cameroon is threatening the biodiversity in the country ...

A parrot that was kicked out of the National Animal Welfare Trust sanctuary for swearing learned how to ...

The ruling African National Congress party has said it will amend the constitution as soon as possible to ...

President Donald Trump announced Dec. 16 that he will review the case of a former U.S. Army Green ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwanese lawmakers recently approved two draft amendment bills to counter election meddling by foreign actors. In draft ...

HONOLULU—U.S. prosecutors in Hawaii are accusing the owners and officers of a Japanese fishing boat of helping Indonesian ...

Rare-earth metals are critical to the modern economy as they are a key material for making batteries that ...

The mother of a Welsh boy said he lost his eye after being struck twice in the same ...

An animal rescue group in Portugal posted a video showing the moment a dog was rescued after being ...

BRUSSELS—Thousands of people marched in Brussels on Dec. 16 in opposition to a United Nations agreement aimed at ...

More than 40 people have been injured in an explosion at a restaurant in the city of Sapporo, ...