Muhamad Yehia SEOUL, South Korea — The United States flew a long-range bomber in a trilateral drill with South Korea and Japan on Sunday in response to North Korea’s recent test-firing of a new intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the U.S. mainland, South Korea’s military said. North Korea on …
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Customers at this Starbucks can sip coffee and observe a quiet North Korean village
Muhamad Yehia SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Coffee drinkers can sip their beverages and view a quiet North Korean mountain village from a new Starbucks at a South Korean border observatory. Customers have to pass a military checkpoint before entering the observatory at Aegibong Peace Ecopark, which is less than …
Read More »Death sentence for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan upheld in Vietnam’s largest fraud case
Muhamad Yehia HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The death sentence for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan was upheld Tuesday in Vietnam’s largest fraud case, the scale of which had raised concerns about the country’s economy. She had been convicted in April of embezzlement and bribery over the fraud amounting to $12.5 …
Read More »Chase is driving the future of banking through a digital and tech overhaul
Muhamad Yehia The past four and a half years have been a transformational time at Chase. While the pandemic brought chaos and uncertainty to many businesses, it also provided an opportunity to rethink strategy and processes in a new digital age. Chase’s technology team overhauled the rails supporting digital …
Read More »Panic among spectators at soccer game kills at least 56 in the West African nation of Guinea
Muhamad Yehia CONAKRY, Guinea — Chaos erupted at a soccer game in Guinea after fans protested a referee’s call and thousands of panicked spectators tried to flee the stadium, leaving at least 56 people dead in the West African nation, officials and witnesses said Monday. Amid the confusion, security forces …
Read More »ICC judges unseal an arrest warrant for an alleged Central African Republic rebel
Muhamad Yehia THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Judges at the International Criminal Court on Thursday unsealed an arrest warrant for an alleged rebel from the Central African Republic accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity including murder, extermination, rape and persecution more than a decade ago. According to his warrant, which was …
Read More »Congo wants UN peacekeepers gone. But endless war around minerals is complicating that
Muhamad Yehia GOMA, Congo — The end of one of the world’s deadliest and yet most shadowy wars is as difficult to predict as the end of the large peacekeeping force meant to contain it. Congo desperately wants stability in its mineral-rich east, of intense interest to the global …
Read More »East African summit urges peace in eastern Congo but its leader skips talks
Muhamad Yehia ARUSHA, Tanzania — East African heads of state made another push for peace in eastern Congo on Saturday but its prospects remained bleak following a regional summit that was marked by the Congolese president’s absence and an early departure of his Rwandan counterpart. A communique read at the …
Read More »For the first time, France’s Macron calls 1944 killings of West African troops by French a massacre
Muhamad Yehia DAKAR, Senegal — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre in a letter addressed to the Senegalese authorities. Macron’s move, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of …
Read More »French government faces no-confidence vote over Barnier’s austerity budget
Muhamad Yehia PARIS — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is bracing for a no-confidence vote this week, a political reckoning almost certain to topple his fragile government and send shockwaves across the eurozone. Barnier on Monday invoked a rarely used constitutional mechanism to push through the contentious 2025 budget without …
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