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A Chinese official who sparked controversy for praising the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and denying human rights abuses against the Uyghurs has made several appearances at high-profile institutions over the past year and recently showed up at a Columbia University symposium. “My honor to speak at Int’l Education Symposium ‘Cross-Fertilization …

Traveling the world sounds expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. Vacationing can quickly add up with expenses like airfare, luxury hotels, fancy dinners and expensive excursions. With the getaways in this guide, airfare is going to be the biggest hurdle to overcome. All of these places have inexpensive hotel …

U.S. Central Command released a statement after U.S. military forces — together with the United Kingdom and with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, and the Netherlands — conducted “multilateral coalition strikes” on Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen. The attacks came after Houthi rebels have launched missiles and carried out attacks …

TORONTO – Canada’s decades-long government policy requiring Canadian First Nation children to attend state-funded church schools amounted to “cultural genocide,” a long-awaited report has found. Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair Justice Murray Sinclair said Tuesday the residential schools represent one of the “darkest and most troubling chapters in our collective …

GENEVA – HSBC says it will pay 40 million Swiss francs ($43 million) to settle a money laundering investigation by Geneva prosecutors into its Swiss subsidiary. Prosecutors have said they were investigating HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA and persons unknown for suspected aggravated money laundering. The investigation unfolded after an …

BERLIN – The Swiss government says diplomat Heidi Tagliavini plans to step down as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s representative in talks between Moscow, Kiev and pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine. Tagliavini, who previously worked on crises in places including Chechnya and Georgia, has played a low-key but …

EL-ARISH, Egypt – Egyptian security and hospital officials say two militant attacks in the restive northern part of the Sinai Peninsula have killed one soldier and wounded four. In one Monday attack, they say fighters ambushed a military checkpoint near the town of Sheikh Zuweyid, firing several mortar shells that …

BENGHAZI, Libya – Al-Qaida-linked militants are battling an Islamic State affiliate in eastern Libya after one of their leaders was shot dead by masked gunmen. Nasr Akr, an al-Qaida-inspired militant once jailed in the U.K. on terrorism charges, was assassinated along with his aide in the eastern town of Darna, …

BERLIN – Swiss prosecutors say they are conducting an espionage investigation amid suspicions that Swiss hotels hosting talks on Iran’s nuclear program have been targeted in a cyber-spying campaign. Kaspersky, a cybersecurity firm, said this week it uncovered the campaign and that the malware was so sophisticated it must have …

PARIS – Paris airport police held a 6-year-old French girl for three days on the mistaken suspicion she had a fake passport — until a judge ordered her released into her mother’s arms. Lawyer Sidonie Leoue said Friday that the girl was detained Saturday at Charles de Gaulle airport, after …