SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean police have detained a university design professor for allegedly forcing a former student to eat human feces and subjecting him to other cruel acts. A police statement Tuesday said the alleged violence began after the professor hired the ex-student in 2013 as an employee …
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico City has published new regulations that will allow Uber and other smartphone-based ride-sharing apps to operate over the objections of taxi drivers. Under the rules, 1.5 percent of each fare will go into a “Taxi, Mobility and Pedestrian Fund,” which will be used to improve taxi …
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PRAGUE – The death toll in a collision between a high-speed train and a truck in eastern Czech Republic has reached three after a passenger died in a hospital over the night. Tomas Oborny, spokesman for the University hospital in the city of Ostrava, confirmed the death Wednesday. He said …
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CAIRO – Egypt’s health ministry says 11 more bodies have been retrieved from the Nile River, bringing the death toll from this week’s boat collision to 29. Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar told The Associated Press that the search efforts continued on Friday. The collision late Wednesday night happened when a …
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KIEV, Ukraine – The biggest supplier of aid to rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine says its mission could fold in two days’ time if rebels continue to block its convoys. A charity foundation owned by Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akmetov, has been the largest source of aid for the separatist-controlled territory while …
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SANAA, Yemen – Yemeni military officials say pro-government troops have been besieging a military base held by Shiite rebels for 40 hours, after cutting off major supply routes to the facility. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to talk to reporters, said Tuesday the troops …
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BANGKOK – The Lao News Agency says 23 people have been missing after a Laotian army helicopter had an accident after leaving the capital on Monday. State-owned news agency KPL said Wednesday that four crew members and 19 passengers were on the helicopter that lost communication with the aviation control …
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BEIJING – A diocese in central China has ordained the country’s first Catholic bishop in three years amid strained relations between Beijing and the Vatican. Catholic websites says the Rev. Joseph Zhang Yinlin was named co-adjutor bishop of Anyang in Henan province, under tight security on Tuesday. AsiaNews.it says Zhang’s …
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MADRID – Some 3,000 inhabitants have now had to be evacuated from their homes in southwestern Spain as wildfires that officials suspect were started deliberately continue to rage for a third day. Around 1,000 residents were evacuated early Saturday from the town Hoyos in the Extremadura region as flames were …
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TOKYO – As Japan resumed generating nuclear power Tuesday, restarting 1 reactor in the south, the destroyed Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in the northeast remains a highly radioactive site, more than four years after an earthquake and tsunami triggered meltdowns in three of its six reactors. A look at the status …
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