UC Santa Barbara students attend a candlelight vigil following Friday's series of drive-by shootings that left 7 people dead in the Isla Vista section of Santa Barbara May 24, 2014.
Students, workers and citizens staged a 24-hour national strike demanding reforms in the public state education system in Santiago.
Meshael Alayban, a 42-year-old Saudi princess, was arrested Wednesday and charged with one felony count of human trafficking for allegedly holding the woman and forcing her to work against her will.
About 70 students who survived the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash-landing in San Francisco on Saturday gathered on Wednesday in the city's Chinese consulate-general, where they were encouraged to stay brave and strong.
Investigators say two pilots called for the landing of an Asiana Airlines plane to be aborted seconds before the plane crashed at San Francisco International Airport.
Diplomat consoles crash survivors
China and the US agreed to start the substantive discussions of the China-US Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) as soon as possible.
US lawmakers on Wednesday got their first chance to debate a Chinese company's proposed takeover of pork processor Smithfield Foods Inc, with most expressing apprehension about the deal's impact on US food supplies, agricultural exports and cross-border transfer of sensitive technologies.
China and the US looked to immediately defuse any tension and nervousness at the two-day Strategic and Economic Dialogue in Washington.
China, US strike new deal to cut emissions
High hopes for high-tech export reform
Senators debate Shuanghui buyout
China and the US have agreed to five new initiatives to cut greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants by tackling the largest sources of emissions in both countries.
US think tanks and businessmen are hoping for a range of breakthroughs to emerge from the fifth round of the China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue being held in Washington, DC. High on the wish lists of many will be a loosening of US restrictions on the export of high-tech goods to China.
Residents of the town of Lac-Megantic in Quebec were coming to grips on Thursday with the reality that 50 of their own were most likely dead in the aftermath of the railway disaster.
Chinese President Xi Jinping's special envoy said here Thursday that promoting a new type of relations between China and the United States should start with the Asia-Pacific region.
Former US President George W. Bush on Wednesday threw his weight behind the pending reform of US immigration policy.
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