Senator and sons talk same language

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - Howard Stevenson travels across the United States giving speeches to national educators about Utah's pioneering, decade-old effort to jointly teach Chinese and English in the state's public schools.

Qigong smooths road to recovery

With a badge reading "I'm Cancer Free" on his chest, Ken Adler headed to the middle of the room with six other elderly people.

K-Pop boyband hits high note with top spot on US charts

SEOUL - South Korean boyband phenomenon BTS have become the first K-Pop group to rise to the top of the US album charts, a vivid illustration of the genre's growing global appeal.

Students find unity in Chinese lessons

HANOI - Learning Chinese is helping students in Vietnam better understand concepts such as international relations and promoting cooperation.

France weighs how to return plundered art

PARIS - Half-man, half-beast, the tall African statues dominate a busy gallery in Paris' Quai Branly museum. But few of the visitors are aware they are looking at what might be considered stolen goods.

Amid anti-immigrant sentiment, some Spanish speakers wary

PHOENIX, Arizona - Until recently, Lilly Mucarsel has spoken Spanish just about everywhere since arriving in the United States from Ecuador three decades ago: at the library, the movies, the grocery store. She raised three daughters who also speak Spanish and are passing on the tradition to her US-born grandchildren.

Famous painting damaged in attack

MOSCOW - One of Russia's most famous paintings, which depicts Czar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, has been badly damaged after a man attacked it with a metal pole after drinking vodka.

Iran sets deadline for EU to save deal

VIENNA - Iran wants European powers to present it with measures by the end of May that will compensate it for the United States abandoning the 2015 nuclear deal, a senior official said on Friday.

China to share organ transplant expertise

China aims to share its experience in the field of organ transplants and seek effective solutions to global challenges through deeper international collaboration, a senior Chinese health official said in Geneva on Thursday.

Maine lobster dealers value Chinese market

Tom Adams started his lobster wholesale company in 2011, with an eye toward the international market.

Moscow denies role in MH17 downing

MOSCOW - Russia has rejected an investigation that found a Russian missile downed flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014, saying no such weapon had ever crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border and blaming Kiev for the tragedy.

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