Germany hits brakes on Macron's European dreams

BERLIN - French President Emmanuel Macron's vision for a stronger European Union may be in tatters as a growing rift emerges with Germany on everything from defense to his plans for deeper eurozone integration.

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Troika the key to EU integration

MILAN - France, Germany and Italy have roles to play in weaving a stronger and more tight-knit European Union in the wake of divisions over Brexit, the economic crisis, and migration, experts said at a roundtable organized by the Institute for International Political Studies, a Milan-based think tank.

Names, information of Unit 731 disclosed

TOKYO - The names of 3,607 members of the Imperial Japanese Army's clandestine Unit 731, known for conducting heinous live germ and chemical warfare experiments on thousands of Chinese victims, have been disclosed by the National Archives of Japan, a research professor said on Monday.

Facebook hit with class action suit over facial recognition tool

SAN FRANCISCO - A US federal judge in California ruled on Monday that Facebook will have to face a classaction suit over allegations it violated users' privacy by using a facial recognition tool on their photos without their explicit consent.

EU fails to agree new Iran sanctions as US deadline nears

LUXEMBOURG - The European Union failed to agree new sanctions against Iran on Monday amid Italy's opposition and fears that punishing Teheran for its missile program and regional role would not stop US President Donald Trump from abandoning a separate nuclear deal.

May apologizes to postwar migrants

British Prime Minister Theresa May apologized to representatives from 12 Caribbean countries on Tuesday over recent harsh treatment by immigration bureaucrats of people who arrived in Britain as children between the late 1940s and the early 1970s.

Airstrikes were 'false alarm'

A false alarm set off Syrian air defense systems early on Tuesday, the military said, denying earlier reports of an "outside aggression" and incoming airstrikes.

ROK-DPRK direct hotline likely this week

The dialogue hotline between the leaders of the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was likely to be set up later this week, a senior Blue House official said on Tuesday.

Abe to meet with Trump as scandals swirl at home

Domestic political scandals and sinking approval ratings are weighing on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as he headed to US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for two days of talks starting on Tuesday.

Politicians 'ignoring trade war fallout'

SAN FRANCISCO - The damaging ripples of a trade war between the United States and China could spill beyond the economy, but Washington politicians, who overstate trade problems, tend to ignore that, a California-based expert said on Monday.

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