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Attorneys for people abused by Catholic clergy said Saturday that claimants have accepted an $800 million (€714 million) accord with the New York archdiocese, concluding years of litigation. New York’s archdiocese proposed the package in May, and formal signatures are…
Staff from Japan’s foreign ministry spent this week in Moscow trying to reach Yuki Imai, a correspondent detained in Russia’s Far East on suspicion of espionage. The FSB, Russia’s security service, picked up Imai, 34, on October 14 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk,…
Kim Jong Un crossed into China on Saturday through the New Yalu River Bridge, reaching Dandong, the border city facing North Korea. The four-lane span brought the North Korean leader into Chinese territory, and state media there reported that he…
Japanese Foreign Ministry officials in Moscow spent this week trying to reach Yuki Imai, a Hokkaido Shimbun correspondent held in Russia’s Far East on a spying allegation. The FSB detained him on October 14 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Sakhalin Island. Broadcast…
The parliament seated in eastern Libya voted unanimously on Tuesday to endorse a maritime pact with Turkey, overturning its own earlier refusal and opening the way for an economic sea corridor linking the two countries. Turkey’s Foreign Ministry welcomed the…
Taiwan counted the cost on Saturday after Typhoon Champi, briefly a super typhoon this week, sideswiped the island’s northeast, killing one man, injuring hundreds and blacking out more than 340,000 homes. The Central Weather Administration called off its land warning…
