Hong Kong (CNN)Xi Jinping called on Taiwan to reject independence and embrace "peaceful reunification" with China, in a conciliatory speech that nevertheless took a hard line on the self-governing island's political sovereignty and freedoms.
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New Delhi (CNN)Tens of thousands of women in the Indian state of Kerala have formed a series of human chains extending an estimated 620 kilometers (385 miles) as a show of solidarity in protest
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Moscow, Russia (CNN)A baby boy was plucked alive Tuesday from the rubble of an apartment building leveled a day earlier by a suspected gas explosion in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk.Dramatic footage released by
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)1. China's rocky year: China's economy is entering uncharted territory, and that could spell trouble for the rest of the world. After decades of sharp expansion, the Chinese economy is slowing
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US President Donald Trump has invited top congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday for a border security briefing, the first between the president and Democratic leaders since before a partial government shutdown
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Armed men have killed dozens of Fulani herders in central Mali, where ethnic violence cost hundreds of lives last year. The Malian government said in a statement that attackers dressed as traditional Donzo hunters
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The brother of a US citizen arrested in Russia on espionage charges said on Tuesday that his brother is innocent and was in Moscow to attend a wedding. Paul Whelan was arrested in Moscow on
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The Cornelia Street Cafe has fallen victim to rising rents in Greenwich Village, a neighbourhood that the business helped make trendy. The cafe was voted one of the best places in the world to
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Tens of thousands of women in a southern Indian state have formed a 620km human chain in support of a court order overturning a partial ban on women entering one of Hinduism's holiest temples. The "Women's
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KHARTOUM: Sudan’s President Omar Al-Bashir ordered authorities Tuesday to set up a committee to investigate violence during anti-government protests, even as a range of political groups called for a “new regime” in the country.At
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