US Senate pushes back on tariffs

The US Senate quietly passed legislation on Thursday that would lower trade barriers on hundreds of items made in China.

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Dams under probe after collapse; China offers help

Search for survivors hampered by weather, more heavy rain forecast

Saudi Arabia halts Red Sea oil exports

DUBAI - Saudi Arabia said on Thursday it was "temporarily halting" all oil shipments through the strategic Red Sea shipping lane of Bab al-Mandeb after an attack on two big oil tankers by Yemen's Houthi rebels.

Economic plan on Mideast underway

WASHINGTON - A long-awaited Middle East peace plan from the Trump administration will include what the White House is calling a robust economic plan to help resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an official has said.

Nearly 250 dead in IS attacks in Syrian province

DAMASCUS - The death toll in coordinated Islamic State group suicide bombings and shootings in southern Syria rose to nearly 250 overnight and 180 wounded, a monitor said on Thursday.

End of line for confusing railway time rule

MOSCOW - Russia on Tuesday announced that it will stop running all long-distance trains across its 11 time zones on Moscow time, ending a frequent cause of confusion for travelers.

PTI party leading in Pakistan elections

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf party, or PTI, of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, is leading in the country's general elections, according to initial results received by the Election Commission of Pakistan, or ECP, on Thursday.

Final six hanged for role in cult killings

TOKYO - The last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed on Thursday for a series of crimes in the 1990s including a sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed 13 people and injured thousands more.

Greece counts cost of deadliest wildfires

ATHENS - Greece was on Thursday counting the cost of its deadliest wildfires in living memory, as emergency crews searched incinerated homes and vehicles for the missing after at least 81 people were confirmed to have died.

DPRK to transfer remains of US soldiers on Friday

SEOUL - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will transfer the remains of an unspecified number of soldiers killed in the Korean War (1950-53) on Friday, the Seoul-based Yonhap news agency reported, after accepting about 100 wooden caskets sent by the United States.

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