World

Lebanon’splea to skeptical expats: Come visit,bring cash

BEIRUT - With Beirut's airport partially reopening from a three-month virus shutdown, the government is hoping thousands of Lebanese expatriates will return for the summer - and bring dollars desperat...

Jul 01, 2020

Taiwan opens Hong Kong migration office in rebuke to Beijing

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan on Wednesday opened an office to facilitate migration from Hong Kong following China's passage of a national security law for the former British colony seen as sharply restrict...

Jul 01, 2020

Businesswoman upsets 5-term congressman in Colorado primary

DENVER - Five-term Colorado U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton was upset in Tuesday's Republican Party primary by Lauren Boebert, a pistol-packing businesswoman, ardent defender of gun rights and border wall supp...

Jun 30, 2020

After security law's passage, Hong Kong marks China rule

Hong Kong's leader strongly endorsed the new security law China's central government is imposing on the semi-autonomous territory in her speech marking Wednesday's anniversary of its handover from col...

Jun 30, 2020

PM Modi says virus status 'critical,' warns of carelessness

NEW DELHI - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a live address Tuesday that the country's coronavirus death rate is under control, but that the country is at a "critical juncture." Modi's sixt...

Jun 30, 2020

1 of 2 Oklahoma officers shot during traffic stop dies

TULSA, Okla. - One of the two Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officers who were shot during a traffic stop has died, authorities said Tuesday. Police Chief Wendell Franklin said Sgt. Craig Johnson died Tuesda...

Jun 30, 2020

Rudolfo Anaya, ‘godfather’ of Chicano literature, dies at 82

RIO RANCHO, N.M. - Rudolfo Anaya, a writer who helped launch the 1970s Chicano Literature Movement with his novel "Bless Me, Ultima," a book celebrated by Latinos, has died at 82. Anaya's niece, Belin...

Jun 30, 2020

Judge temporarily blocks tell-all book by Trump's niece

A tell-all book by President Donald Trump's niece cannot be published until a judge decides the merits of claims by the president's brother that its publication would violate a pact among family membe...

Jun 30, 2020

Johnny Mandel, the Oscar- and Grammy- winning composer, dies

NEW YORK - Johnny Mandel, the Oscar- and Grammy-winning composer, arranger and musician who worked on albums by Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole and many others and whose songwriting credits included "The ...

Jun 30, 2020

Experts dismiss dealer's claim to have long-lost Kahlo work

MADRID - Scholars in the work of surrealist Frida Kahlo have searched for more than six decades for "The Wounded Table," a 1940 oil painting illuminating her pain over the breakup of her marriage to m...

Jun 30, 2020