1+ hour, 37+ min ago  (462+ words) The Trump administration plans to admit up to 10, 000 more white South African refugees into the United States in the coming months, arguing that their status as Afrikaners has left them open to discrimination and persecution at home. Under law, the…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (562+ words) Japan suspended head rugby coach Eddie Jones for four games and cut his salary on Wednesday for "verbal abuse directed at local officials" during an Australian tour. Jones will miss Japan's Nations Championship opener against Italy in Tokyo on July…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (592+ words) Countries prepared to evacuate their citizens from the luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly strain of hantavirus that is due to anchor near Tenerife early on Sunday, as health "authorities said the risk of the virus spreading was low....

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (965+ words) Spanish authorities on Friday were preparing to receive more than 140 passengers and crew members on board a hantavirus-stricken cruise ship headed for the Canary Islands, where health officials have said they will perform careful evacuations. The vessel is expected to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (441+ words) China said on Wednesday Eswatini's leaders were being "kept and fed" by Taiwan, using unusually strong language to condemn the small southern "African kingdom for hosting President Lai Ching-te. China and Taiwan have long traded accusations of "dollar diplomacy" to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (877+ words) A luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak and marooned since Sunday off the coast of Cape Verde left for Spain on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said, after three people, two of them seriously ill, were evacuated. The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (241+ words) A bus crashed into a guardrail on an expressway in Fukushima Prefecture on Wednesday, killing a teenager and injuring 26 other passengers, local police and rescuers said. The accident occurred on the Banetsu Expressway in Koriyama near the Bandaiatami exit at…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (829+ words) Three passengers have died and at least four people have been sick in what health officials say is an outbreak of hantavirus, which usually spreads by inhaling contaminated rodent droppings. The World Health Organization said passengers are isolating in their…...

2+ week, 4+ min ago  (1159+ words) President Lai Ching-te arrived home on Tuesday from Eswatini saying Taiwan would not give in to pressure, having taken a circuitous route "over the southern part of the Indian Ocean to avoid airspace controlled by close friends of China. China…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (846+ words) After Argentina won the World Cup in Qatar 2022, the president of the Argentine Football Association carried a replica of the trophy at every public appearance. He received standing ovations. Claudio Tapia had reason to consider himself part of the sporting…...