Wal-Mart and JD.com offer more choices
NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart and JD.com are offering more choices for Chinese shoppers ahead of Singles Day, one of the world’s biggest online shopping days of the year.
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Kadhafi's 'Green Book': from manifesto to mockery
Five years since Moamer Kadhafi was killed in a NATO-backed uprising, the strongman's quixotic Green Book — once Libya's sacred and ever-present scripture — is now ridiculed in the...
U.S. partnership with Turkey in Islamic State fight 'very strong'
The U.S. partnership with Turkey in countering Islamic State is "very strong," U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said at a news conference on Thursday. "With respect to Turkey, our...
S. African police block student march to Zuma's office
South African police on Thursday fired stun grenades to disperse several hundred students who attempted to march to President Jacob Zuma's offices in the capital Pretoria to protest against...
Arms deals with Europe, Israel fuel South Sudan war: UN
A UN panel of experts has found evidence of "well-established networks" of arms suppliers in Eastern Europe and the Middle East that are fueling the war in South Sudan....
South African student leader is injured in protest
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The student council at a leading South African university says a student leader was hit multiple times in the back by police rubber bullets during a...
Thousands march in Jerusalem in support of Israel
Supporters of Israel from across the globe marched in Jerusalem on Thursday, two days after UNESCO backed a resolution which Israel said denied Judaism's connection to the city. A...
What a sting on a regional governor says about how the Kremlin wins elections
By Svetlana Reiter and Jack Stubbs MOSCOW (Reuters) – On a Friday evening in June, German businessman Yuri Zyudheimer and Russian regional governor Nikita Belykh sat down in a...
Israel: Troops shoot Palestinian throwing rocks in West Bank
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military says soldiers have shot and killed a Palestinian who threw rocks at them in the West Bank.
Terror police investigate suspicious item on UK subway
LONDON (AP) — British authorities have conducted a controlled explosion on London’s subway system after train staff reported finding a suspicious item on a train travelling eastbound on the...
