Tag: Asia
UN: Unprecedented Taliban violence in 2020 carries into 2021
UNITED NATIONS — Taliban insurgents show no sign of reducing the level of violence in Afghanistan to facilitate peace negotiations with the government, and...
GOP sees opening to revive attacks on Fauci in email trove
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a political lightning rod since the early days of the pandemic, lionized by the left as a...
US moves within a win of qualifying for Olympic baseball
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The United States moved within a win of qualifying for the Olympic baseball tournament, routing Canada 10-1 Friday night...
Mine-sniffing rat Magawa ends years of hard work in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — After five years of sniffing out land mines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, Magawa is retiring.
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Asia-Pacific trade ministers mull pandemic, recovery
BANGKOK — Trade ministers from the Pacific Rim were discussing ways to build back better from the pandemic in an online meeting Saturday hosted...
Microsoft says “tank man” censorship due to human error
HONG KONG — Microsoft Corp. blamed “accidental human error” for its Bing search engine briefly not showing image results for the search term “tank...
Beach veterans Dalhausser, Gibb heading to 5th Olympics
Jake Gibb is going back to the Olympics for the fourth time, clinching a spot in the Tokyo beach volleyball field with partner Taylor...
South Korea beats Turkmenistan 5-0 in World Cup qualifier
SEOUL — South Korea resumed its World Cup qualifying campaign after 19 months with a 5-0 win over Turkmenistan on Saturday to move within...
Hungary: Plan to build Chinese university branch protested
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Several thousand people rallied in Hungary's capital Saturday against plans by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to host a Chinese university in...
Marathon racer Diver, 44, picked for Australian Olympic team
BRISBANE, Australia — Sinead Diver was a mother of two and well into her 30s when she ran her first marathon. At 44, she's...