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NEW YORK—Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down health insurance executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street, pleaded not guilty on Monday to New York state murder charges that brand him a terrorist. Mangione, 26, was escorted into Judge Gregory Carro’s 13th-floor courtroom in the New York state criminal courthouse in lower Manhattan […]
TAIPEI—Cheng Chen Chin-Mei beamed broadly as she hoisted a 77-pound weightlifting bar to her waist, dropped it, and waved confidently to the enthusiastic crowd in a competition in Taipei. Cheng Chen, 90, has been pumping iron since last year, encouraged by her granddaughter to take up the sport after she was diagnozed with Parkinson’s disease. […]
A bridge connecting two states in Brazil’s northern and northeastern regions collapsed on Sunday as vehicles were crossing, killing at least one person and spilling sulfuric acid into the Tocantins River. The National Department of Transport Infrastructure said the central span of the 0.3-mile bridge, linking the cities of Estreito in Maranhao state and Aguiarnopolis […]
TIRANA—Albania on Saturday announced a one-year ban on TikTok, the popular short video app, following the killing of a teenager last month that raised fears over the influence of social media on children. The ban, part of a broader plan to make schools safer, will come into effect early next year, Prime Minister Edi Rama […]
WASHINGTON—President Joe Biden on Friday agreed to provide $571.3 million in defense support for Taiwan, the White House said, while the State Department approved the potential sale to the island of $265 million worth of military equipment. The United States is bound by law to provide Taiwan with the means to defend itself despite the […]
ANKARA—Four people were killed in southwest Turkey on Sunday when an ambulance helicopter collided with a hospital building and crashed into the ground. The helicopter was taking off from the Mugla Training and Research Hospital, carrying two pilots, a doctor and another medical worker, the health ministry said in a statement. Mugla’s regional governor, Idris […]
A small plane carrying 10 people crashed into shops in the center of the tourist city of Gramado in southern Brazil on Sunday, killing everyone on board, state government officials said. The aircraft’s owner and pilot, Luiz Claudio Galeazzi, died along with the other nine passengers, all of whom were members of his family, according […]
MAGDEBURG, Germany—A man suspected of ploughing a car through crowds at a German Christmas market in an attack that killed five people and injured scores faces multiple charges of murder and attempted murder, police said on Sunday. The suspect, who was in custody, is a 50-year-old psychiatrist from Saudi Arabia who has lived in Germany […]
HANOVER—Volkswagen on Friday announced sweeping changes to its German operations, including more than 35,000 future job cuts and sharp capacity reductions in a last-gasp deal between Europe’s top carmaker and unions to avert mass strikes. Union leaders hailed the agreement as a “Christmas miracle” after 70 hours of grueling negotiations, the longest in the company’s […]
KUALA LUMPUR—Malaysia has agreed to resume the search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, its transport minister said on Friday, more than 10 years after it disappeared in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. Flight MH370, a Boeing 777 carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew, vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur […]
Some members of the workers’ union representing more than 10,000 baristas at Starbucks began a five-day strike at stores in Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle starting Friday, citing unresolved issues over wages, staffing and schedules. This is the latest in a series of labor actions that have picked up pace across service industries following a […]
MOSCOW—Russian forces hit military targets in Ukraine with long-range high-precision weapons on Friday in response to an attack on Russia’s Rostov region this week in which Ukraine used U.S.- and British-supplied missiles, the Russian Defence Ministry said. Russia said on Thursday that Ukraine had launched six U.S.-made long-range ATACMs missiles and four British-made Storm Shadow […]
RIO DE JANEIRO—A judge in Rio de Janeiro has ordered the global removal of a 2015 song by British singer Adele due to a plagiarism claim by a Brazilian musician, which Universal Music is fighting on appeal. The ruling, made public on Monday, came in a case filed this year by Toninho Geraes, whose compositions […]
Amazon.com workers at seven U.S. facilities walked off the job early on Thursday during the holiday shopping rush, aiming to pressure the retailer into contract talks with their union. Warehouse workers in cities including New York, Atlanta and San Francisco are taking part in the “largest” strike against Amazon, said the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, […]
WASHINGTON—The head of a U.S.-based Syrian advocacy organization on Monday said that a mass grave outside of Damascus contained the bodies of at least 100,000 people killed by the former government of ousted President Bashar al-Assad. Mouaz Moustafa, speaking to Reuters in a telephone interview from Damascus, said the site at al Qutayfah, 25 miles […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday it has sent warning letters to four companies for selling unapproved versions of GLP-1 drugs including semaglutide and tirzepatide, the active ingredients in popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs. The letters were issued to Xcel Peptides, Swisschems, Summit Research, and Prime Peptides last week after the U.S. […]
NEW DELHI—Elon Musk said Starlink satellite internet is inactive in India, his first comments since authorities seized two of the company’s devices in recent weeks, one in an armed conflict zone and another in a drug smuggling bust. Starlink is seeking approval in India to provide satellite broadband services and the Musk-owned company is trying […]
MEXICO CITY—The U.S. government deported drug lord Osiel Cardenas on Monday, transferring custody of the ex-Gulf Cartel chief known for hyper-violent tactics to Mexican authorities at the border city of Tijuana. Cardenas, 57, was freed in August after serving more than two decades behind bars in maximum security prisons in the United States, and since […]
British Security Minister, Dan Jarvis, welcomed on Monday a court ruling affirming the Home Office’s stance on the exclusion of a person linked to the Chinese Communist Party. “We welcome the court’s decision to uphold the Home Office’s position in regard to the exclusion of H6, who can now be named as Yang Tengbo,” said […]
OTTAWA—Canada’s Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland quit on Monday after clashing with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on issues including how to handle possible U.S. tariffs. In her resignation letter, Freeland dismissed Trudeau’s push for increased spending as a political gimmick that could hurt Ottawa’s ability to deal with the 25 percent import tariffs U.S. President-elect Donald […]
