Canadian province Manitoba set to re-elect Progressive Conservative government
Voters in Canada’s western province of Manitoba were set to re-elect the right-leaning Progressive Conservative (PC) party led by Brian Pallister on Tuesday, CTV news...
Sanofi to pay Lexicon $260 million for terminated partnership
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Tuesday France’s Sanofi SA will pay the drugmaker $260 million for the termination of their partnership to develop diabetes drug...
Japan’s Tepco struggles to restore power after typhoon as two die: media
Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power is struggling to restore power to nearly half a million homes after outages caused by Typhoon Faxai, while at least...
Buying a big stick: South Korea’s military spending has North Korea worried
South Korea and North Korea have continued to pour resources into modernizing their militaries despite a frenzy of diplomacy since 2018, data shows, creating a...
Hijab but no helmet, Indonesian woman conquers Wall of Death
Devi Apriliyani turns heads when the carnival she works with comes to town....
Body of Zimbabwe’s Mugabe to leave Singapore for burial at home
The body of Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe will be flown home from Singapore on Wednesday, five days after he died in hospital in the...
U.S. senators expect Congress to reinstate aid for Ukraine even if Trump cuts it
Republican and Democratic senators said on Tuesday they expected the U.S. Congress would pass legislation restoring $250 million in military aid for Ukraine if President...
Colombia court maintains moratorium on fracking
Colombia’s top administrative court maintained a temporary moratorium on the use of fracking on Tuesday, stymieing potential pilot projects amid ongoing arguments in a wider...
North Korea unlikely to mourn ‘war maniac’ Bolton, but U.S. task no easier
Among those unlikely to be mourning John Bolton’s departure as U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser are officials in North Korea who have denounced...
Cameroon leader says government will organize talks to solve separatist crisis
Cameroon’s President Paul Biya announced in a rare public address on Tuesday the organization of a national dialogue to solve a separatist crisis in the...