For Syrian family with 16 children, life at Turkish border only gets harder
Providing for 16 children including four sets of twins is only getting harder for Ahmad Yassin al-Ali and his wife Fawza Umri, Syrians who were...
Extreme poverty in Italy was falling before coronavirus, survey shows
The number of Italian families living in absolute poverty decreased in 2019 after four straight years of growth, though there is still a significant problem...
New report revisits ‘Sharpiegate’ controversy
A Monday report found that U.S. agency leaders violated their own policy on scientific integrity after they backed a Trump tweet about Hurricane Dorian last...
Did elite David Boies law firm get a pandemic bailout? It’s a secret
When the U.S. government announced a multibillion-dollar bailout of struggling small businesses amid the coronavirus pandemic, one of the top U.S. law firms sensed an...
Futures jump on stimulus hopes ahead of retail sales report
U.S. stock index futures jumped on Tuesday on hopes that aggressive fiscal and monetary stimulus would kick start an economy crushed by the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Amazon launches tech to maintain social distancing at its facilites
Amazon.com Inc said on Tuesday it launched a technology-aided system in some of its facilities to maintain social distancing, called ‘Distance Assistant’....
American wanted by FBI arrested in Indonesia for suspected child sex crimes
A U.S. national wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation over a bitcoin scam has been arrested in Indonesia and charged under a child protection...
Chinese capital and provinces impose travel curbs as coronavirus cases mount
The Chinese capital banned high-risk people from leaving and curbed public transport on Tuesday to stop the spread of the most serious coronavirus flare-up since...
India says three soldiers killed in ‘violent faceoff’ on border with China
Three Indian soldiers were killed in a “violent faceoff” with Chinese troops on the disputed border, the Indian Army said on Tuesday, reporting the first...
Chinese military suffers casualties in clash with India – Global Times editor
The Chinese military suffered casualties in a border clash with Indian soldiers, the editor-in-chief of China’s Global Times newspaper said on Tuesday....