MOSCOW - A man was arrested on Saturday in connection with a St. Petersburg supermarket bombing that wounded 18 people, Russia's main domestic security agency said.
TEHERAN - Two people were killed overnight in western Iran in anti-government protests, Iran's Labor News Agency reported on Sunday. The announcement was made by Hbibollah Khojasteh Pour, deputy governor of Iran's Lorestan Province.
MONROVIA, Liberia - Celebrations have begun in Liberia after former FIFA World Player of the Year George Weah won the West African nation's presidential election by a wide margin.
NEW YORK - Police are promising a bigger security detail than ever before in Times Square for this year's New Year's Eve celebration, which will mark the end of a year that saw a number of deadly attacks on innocent crowds, including a vehicle rampage at the very spot where revelers will ring in 2018.
MUMBAI - At least 15 people were killed when a huge blaze tore through a popular restaurant in Mumbai early on Friday, police said, in the latest disaster to raise concerns over fire safety in India.
SAN FRANCISCO - Facing lawsuits and consumer outrage after it said it slowed older iPhones with flagging batteries, Apple is slashing prices for battery replacements and will change its software to show users whether their phone battery is good.
The Republic of Korea's President Moon Jae-in was simply telling the truth when he said on Thursday that the 2015 agreement between his country and Japan intended to settle once and for all the decades-long row over Korean women forced into wartime sexual slavery was seriously flawed, "both in process and content".
The armed police will be placed under the unified control of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Central Military Commission starting Jan 1.
THE EDUCATION MINISTRY, Public Security Ministry and nine other central government departments have jointly published an action plan to address the issue of bullying in schools, which has become a grave problem. According to the plan, those responsible for repeated bullying in primary and middle schools will be transferred to reformatory schools. Thepaper.cn commented on Thursday:
THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION recently published national standards for the management of primary and secondary schools, which has attracted a lot of attention as it says that schools and parents should work together to ensure primary school pupils sleep at least 10 hours a day and middle school students sleep nine hours a day. Thepaper.cn comments:
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