KHAN SHAYKHUN, Syria - Violence in northwest Syria has displaced more than 30,000 people this month alone, the United Nations said on Monday, warning that a looming assault could create the century's "worst humanitarian catastrophe".
NEW YORK - The #MeToo movement fighting sexual misconduct had already claimed one of Hollywood's top movie moguls in Harvey Weinstein. Now it has done the same for Leslie Moonves, one of the television industry's most powerful executives.
WASHINGTON - The US government was scheduled to announce on Monday that it will close the Palestine Liberation Organization's office in Washington, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
Yili Group, the leading Chinese dairy company based in the Inner Mongolian capital of Hohhot, kickstarted its latest poverty-relief campaign in Meigu county, Sichuan province, recently, by donating dairy products to local schools.
PARANAGUA, Brazil - Since China Merchants Port set up shop in Paranagua, things have picked up in the small southern city of 151,000 residents.
DAMASCUS - Abu Abdo eases himself into the driver's seat, itching to try out freshly laid train tracks between two suburbs of Syria's capital, Damascus.
TORONTO - A film about the 2008 attack on a hotel in Mumbai received a standing ovation at its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, and the cast and filmmakers said they believe that's because of the human portrayal not only of the victims but also the perpetrators.
SAN FRANCISCO - Engineers set to sea on Saturday to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world's largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean.
ATLANTA - Geoff Hale is a mild-mannered, bespectacled geologist by day, but he takes on a whole new persona when he steps into The Pit.
BERLIN - Combined support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative alliance and their partners, the left-leaning Social Democrats, has hit a record low for any such 'grand coalition' government, according to a survey published on Sunday.
BAGHDAD - The United Nations special envoy to Iraq Jan Kubis on Saturday condemned violence and riots in Iraq's southern province of Basra, and urged Iraqi authorities to ensure law and order.
WASHINGTON - Several US media outlets reported on Saturday that the Trump administration has talked secretly with rebellious Venezuelan military officers several times to discuss their plans to stage a coup in the South American country.
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