Australia, Singapore and the United Kingdom on Tuesday banned Boeing 737 MAX planes from their airspaces and airlines around the world grounded the jets following a second deadly accident in just five months.
OSAKA/TOKYO - Osaka, long Japan's "second city", is winning the race against Tokyo to draw foreign tourists, but its retailers and property developers are adapting to shifting tourism spending patterns.
ALGIERS, Algeria - Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Monday announced that he would not run for a fifth presidential term, but he indefinitely postponed presidential elections slated for April 18, the official APS news agency reported.
JAKARTA, Indonesia - With just over a month to go before the presidential election, Indonesian President Joko Widodo holds a double-digit lead over his challenger, retired general Prabowo Subianto, according to an opinion poll released this week.
HREBIENOK, Slovakia - A young nun breathes deeply as she peers up at a statue of an angel bathed in softly colored light streaming through a church, and as she exhales, you can see her breath.
NEW DELHI - National elections in India will begin on April 11, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party seeks a second term.
BAGHDAD - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani began his first official visit to Iraq on Monday, aiming to strengthen "brotherly ties" between Teheran and Baghdad.
AUSTIN, Texas - After years of global efforts, the first-ever images of our own galaxy's central black hole are expected to be released within this year, according to scientists working on the Block Hole Initiative.
SHAH ALAM, Malaysia - Malaysia released an Indonesian woman on Monday after prosecutors dropped the murder charge against her for the death of a man from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at Kuala Lumpur airport in 2017.
BAGHOUZ, Syria - The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, started an attack to capture the Islamic State group's last remaining shred of territory in eastern Syria on Sunday and were exchanging fire with the extremists, an SDF official said.
The fourth United Nations Environment Assembly, opening on Monday in Nairobi, is expected to pay a special attention to innovations and practices that African countries can adopt to hasten the green agenda.
ACCRA, Ghana - As Ghana's urban landscape gently slides by the train window, Shaibu Amoah swells with pride.
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