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DAVOS – Billionaire investor George Soros sharply criticized China’s president, Xi Jinping, charging that Open Democratic Societies face a “mortal danger” from regimes using machine-learning...
NEW YORK – While the United States, Britain and major South American nations recognized opposition chief Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim leader Thursday, China and...
BEIJING – China’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that Chinese-Australian author and democracy advocate Yang Hengjun was detained on national security grounds, becoming the latest Western...
TAIPEI – Taiwanese rescue teams were trying Tuesday to retrieve the body of a dead hiker who became famous on social media for taking selfies...
BEIJING – China on Tuesday demanded the U.S. drop a request that Canada extradite a top executive of the tech giant Huawei, shifting blame to...
DAVOS – The world’s 26 richest people own the same wealth as the poorest half of humanity, Oxfam said Monday, urging governments to hike taxes...
DAVOS, Switzerland, – World elites descending on Davos for the World Economic Forum faced urgent warnings from Oxfam and the IMF on Monday that the...
WASHINGTON – US authorities have begun an effort to ban all forms of internet gambling, reversing course from a 2011 decision and imperiling a burgeoning...
TOKYO – The “World’s Oldest Man” Masazo Nonaka, who was born just two years after the Wright brothers launched humanity’s first powered flight, died on...
MOSCOW — A Belarusian model and self-styled sex instructor who last year claimed to have evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election...