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Hundreds of Chinese tourists are in line to board a tour boat ride of New York Harbor, Tuesday, April 24, 2018 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

U.S. Loses Billions In Chinese Tourism Amid Trade War

The United States has fast grown addicted to the $36.2 billion (€32 billion) in annual tourism receipts from Chinese visitors, a figure that has grown more than 15-fold since the turn of the century, but that trend has been reversed recently, Germany’s Deutsche Welle news service reported. Last year, the number of Chinese tourists to the U.S. fell sharply for the first time

Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, speaks during a hearing with Energy Secretary Rick Perry on the President's budget request for Fiscal Year 2020, Tuesday, April 2, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Manchin Considers Leaving Senate For Gubernatorial Run

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is eyeing a possible exit from the Senate, and his decision could be a significant factor in which party controls the majority in 2021, The Hill reports. In moments of frustration, the centrist senator has gone so far as to tell colleagues he may leave the upper chamber before the end of this Congress, or after the 2020 elections. Senate Democratic

Mourners lay flowers near the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, Thursday, March 21, 2019.

Christchurch Attacker Pleads Not Guilty To All Charges

Australian Brenton Tarrant has pleaded not guilty to all charges in relation to the Christchurch mosque shootings on Friday, which includes 51 charges of murder, 40 charges of attempted murder, and one charge under the Terrorism and Suppression Act, according to The New Zealand Herald. Tarrant, 28, had his lawyer, Shane Tait, enter the pleas in on his behalf, which were not

A woman stands with a picture of former police officer Miguel Etchecolatz that reads in Spanish, "He is not a poor man, he is a genocide" during a protest in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Friday, Dec. 29, 2017.

Ex-Argentinian Army Officer Accused Of Murders Found In Italian Resort

Human rights groups have expressed outrage after a former Argentinian army officer accused of committing murder and forced disappearances during the 1976-83 military dictatorship was found enjoying a beach holiday in Sicily, The Guardian reports. Reporters from la Repubblica discovered Lt. Colonel Carlos Luis Malatto in a tourist village in the province of Messina, even though

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West Bengal striking doctors face off with Didi, continue strike

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee intervened four days after junior doctors struck work protesting brutal assault of a doctor by a patient's family at Nil Ratan Sarkar Medical College and Hospital. But she failed to end the impasse as the doctors defied her. Banerjee reached the SSKM hospital in South Kolkata on Thursday morning and

An Iranian navy boat sprays water to extinguish a fire on an oil tanker in the sea of Oman, Thursday, June 13, 2019.

Oil Prices Rise After Pompeo Blames Iran For Tanker Attacks In The Gulf Of Oman

American intelligence pointed to Iran being responsible for attacking two oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, prompting a rise in the stock markets and concern about a potential conflict between Washington and Tehran, according to Bloomberg. "This assessment is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute

President-elect Jair Bolsonaro at the plenary of the Chamber of Deputies, Brazil

Bolsonaro Fires Moderate Official Who Warned Of Extremism

Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has fired one of the most prominent moderates in his administration for reportedly failing to ideologically align himself with his commander-in-chief’s radical creed. Gen. Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, Bolsonaro’s secretary of government, had repeatedly locked horns with the president’s crotchety U.S.-based guru, Olavo de Carvalho,

In this Saturday, June 8, 2019, photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers transfer a girl from a floods hit Shanxi Village of Yongxin County in Ji'an City, east China's Jiangxi Province.

More Than 60 People Killed, 350,000 Evacuated During Floods Across Central China

Chinese rescue authorities said at least 61 people have been killed and 356,000 evacuated from southern and central China this week after torrential rainfall ignited floods across the region, according to Al Jazeera. China's Ministry of Emergency Management said 9,300 homes have been destroyed by the rising waters while more than 3.7 million hectares of farmland was also

07 May 2019, Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, addresses the high-level launch event of the United Nations Countering Terrorist Travel Programme.

UN counter-terror tsar visits Xinjiang where Uighurs held in huge numbers

The UN’s counter-terrorism tsar is on a visit this week to China’s Xinjiang region, where Beijing insists the estimated 1 million Uighurs and other Muslims it is detaining constitute a potential terrorist threat. Vladimir Voronkov, the under-secretary general for counter-terrorism, is the highest

Cruise Ship Carnival Legend docked in Roatán, Honduras December 2010

Lawsuit Says Carnival Cruise Line Kept Man From Leaving The Ship Before His Death

Carnival Cruise Line is being sued by the family of a passenger who had a "major heart attack" on board and died after crew members would not let him off the ship to seek medical attention, according to The Toronto Sun. The Miami Herald first reported the lawsuit was filed on Thursday on behalf of the family members of Jeffrey Eisenman. Eisenman was on vacation on the Carnival

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Hannity: Trump playing Democrats and the media 'like a flute'

Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday reiterated his belief that President Trump purposely "played" the media by saying he would listen to a foreign government who has intelligence on a political rival. ...

U.S. Soldiers assigned to Iron Troop, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment

Russia warns NATO over US-Poland troop move

Russia has warned NATO that US President Donald Trump's pledge to send 1,000 US troops to Poland will "destabilize" Europe. NATO forces in member Poland already include a rotating pool of 4,500 US soldiers . ...

An oil tanker is on fire in the sea of Oman, Thursday, June 13, 2019.

US says Iran took mine off tanker; Iran denies involvement

DUBAI: The US military on Friday released a video it said shows Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil tankers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting the Islamic Republic sought to remove evidence of its involvement from the scene. Iran denies being involved, accusing the US instead of waging an "Iranophobic

File:Kashmiri students take out a demonstration in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, July 15, 2009 as they demand punishment for those responsible for the death of two women whose bodies were found in May at a stream in Shopian, south of Srinagar. Residents of the area had accused Indian soldiers of raping and killing the women.

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Indian students can’t let go of business and engineering even in the UK

Business courses are the favourite by a long shot among Indians studying in the UK. Of the over 17,000 Indian students who enrolled in British universities in 2017-18, up to 7,625 signed up for degrees in business and administrative studies, according to data provided by information portal Studying-in-UK.org. This isn’t surprising, though, since

People walk inside the Congress Hall in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015

Swiss women go on strike over inequality

Switzerland is one of the lowest-ranked countries in the West in terms of wage equality. Public workers in Zurich have disputed that supporting the strike is a violation of political neutrality laws. ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a joint news conference with Kyrgyzstan's President Sooronbai Jeenbekov following their talks on a sideline of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Thursday, June 13, 2019.

Xi Jinping says China will promote steady ties with Iran

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping told Iran's president on Friday that China will promote steady development of ties with Iran no matter how the situation

British Conservative Party lawmaker Boris Johnson leaves his home in London, Thursday, June 13, 2019.

Boris Johnson compared to Hitler by chair of Tory Muslim Forum who blames him for Islamophobic attacks

The chairman of the Conservative Muslim Forum has compared Boris Johnson to Adolf Hitler and said he will end his 36-year membership of the party if he becomes prime minister. Mohammed Amin said that Mr Johnson, who won the first round of the Tory leadership race with nearly three times the votes of his closest rival, was not "sufficiently moral" to lead the country. He said

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan attends a session of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 14, 2019.

PM Imran's diplomatic gaffe at SCO summit highlighted by international media

BISHKEK: The international media is irked by Prime Minister Imran Khan's latest diplomatic gaffe at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit held in Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek on Thursday. The premier was seen breaching the diplomatic protocol in a video shared by the official Twitter handle of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) that showcases him being seated while

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a photo opportunity with Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2018.

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China turns its anger on ‘Cold War warrior’ Pompeo

BEIJING--Beijing has found its villain in its multi-fronted conflict with the United States: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The former CIA chief has been singled out for scorn, in Chinese state media and even at the foreign ministry, over his criticism of everything from Chinese tech giant Huawei to its record on human rights. During a regular media briefing on Monday, China's

People take a look at the rising waters of Jehlum river in Srinagar, India , Thursday 25, June 2015.

India heat wave: Experts urge more can be done as death toll rises

Numerous cities need to modify heat protection schemes as India seeks to protect its homeless population. Temperatures have soared above 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit). ...

Malaysian Politician Arrested After Confessing To Being In Sex Video With Minister

EU Seeks To Ban Trade Of Torture, Execution Supplies

Trump taps former immigration official as his border czar