Jun 17 Trump approves bill to punish China over ethnic crackdown By Ben Fox, Associated Press The bill includes sanctions on Chinese officials involved in the mass surveillance and detention of Uighurs and others in the western Xinjiang region. Continue reading
Jun 17 President von der Leyen vows to fight lack of diversity in E.U. institutions By Associated Press The European Union's top official is pledging to address the lack of racial diversity within EU institutions. Continue reading
Jun 17 France sees protests by activists, medics and police By Arno Pedram, Associated Press A few hundred police officers have put down their handcuffs at Paris police headquarters to demand better working conditions. The protest on Wednesday came amid mounting anger over brutal French arrests. Continue reading
Jun 17 World’s fastest man suspended for missing doping tests By James Ellingworth, Associated Press The fastest man in the world, Christian Coleman, has been sidelined for a string of missed doping tests. Continue reading
Jun 17 New Beijing outbreak raises virus fears for rest of world By Ken Moritsugu, David Rising, Rod McGuirk, Associated Press China raised its emergency warning to its second highest level and canceled more than 60% of the flights into Beijing amid a new coronavirus outbreak in the capital. Continue reading
Jun 17 U.S. hits Syria’s elite with new sanctions under Caesar Act By Matthew Lee, Associated Press The State Department and the Treasury said 39 Syrian individuals, including Assad and his wife, had been designated for the new sanctions. Continue reading
Jun 16 North Korea’s military to re-enter inter-Korean cooperation sites By Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press North Korea says it will redeploy troops to now-shuttered inter-Korean tourism and economic sites near the border with South Korea. The North's military made the announcement Wednesday, a day after it blew up an inter-Korean liaison office just north of… Continue reading
Jun 16 Watch 6:20 News Wrap: Man arrested after Albuquerque protest shooting In our news wrap Tuesday, police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have arrested a man after a shooting during a protest Monday night. It happened as demonstrators tried to tear down a Spanish conquistador’s statue and confronted armed men who were… Continue watching
Jun 16 Watch 5:09 Himalayan border tensions between China and India turn violent The world’s most populous nations, both nuclear powers, are locked in a deadly face-off over a contested border high in the Himalayas. Tensions in a decades-old dispute between China and India have boiled over recently, with 20 Indian soldiers dying… Continue watching
Jun 16 Watch 5:04 What’s behind North Korea’s latest act of aggression On Tuesday, North Korea blew up the Inter-Korean Liaison Office, a symbol of a rare rapprochement in 2018 with South Korea. The move comes as North Korean rhetoric grows increasingly hostile. Nick Schifrin reports and talks to Jeongmin Kim of… Continue watching