Politics

  WASHINGTON / AP Vice President Mike Pence plans to travel to South Korea and Japan later this month amid simmering tensions along the Korean peninsula over North Korea’s attempts to advance its nuclear and missile programs. The White House said on Thursday that Pence would depart April 15 on a 10-day, four-nation tour of the Asia-Pacific region that will ...

  LONDON / AP European Council President Donald Tusk and British Prime Minister Theresa May met on Thursday to seek a smooth start to the U.K.’s EU departure, a day after the European Parliament laid out tough guidelines for the divorce negotiations. The talks came as both sides are settling on their negotiating positions, and after some strong tabloid headlines ...

  WASHINGTON / AP The United States and Russia traded conflicting assertions on Wednesday about who launched a chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed 72 people, as world leaders grasped for a response to the latest atrocity in Syria’s intractable civil war. The Trump administration stood by its charge that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces were responsible. Not so, ...

  LAHORE / AP A Taliban suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying census workers in eastern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing two data collectors and four soldiers who were escorting them, officials said. The attack took place on the outskirts of Lahore, said Malik Ahmad Khan, the provincial government spokesman. A local police official, Mohammad Afzal, said that 15 other people ...

  MOSCOW / AP Russia voiced hope on Wednesday that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s planned visit next week will help improve relations between the former Cold War foes. The Russian Foreign Ministry said Tillerson’s talks next on Wednesday with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will focus on the fight against terrorism, various regional conflicts including Syria and Ukraine, ...

  BEIRUT / AP A suspected chemical attack in a town in Syria’s rebel-held northern Idlib province killed dozens of people on Tuesday, opposition activists said, describing the attack as among the worst in the country’s six-year civil war. Hours later, a small field hospital in the region was struck and destroyed, according to a civil defense worker in the ...

  GAUHATI / AP India said on Tuesday that China should not interfere in its internal affairs, as the Dalai Lama began a weeklong visit to India’s remote northeast that Beijing has protested. The Tibetan spiritual leader was greeted by cheering supporters as he arrived in Arunachal Pradesh. China claims the partly ethnically Tibetan Himalayan state as its own territory, ...

  Bloomberg Investigators named a man who blew up a St. Petersburg subway car, killing 14 people in the worst terrorist attack in a major Russian city in years, and said he also planted a bomb found at a second metro station. The remains of Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, who marked his 22nd birthday on Saturday, were recovered from the scene of ...

  ST. PETERSBURG / AP A bomb blast tore through a subway train in Russia’s second-largest city Monday, killing 10 people and injuring about 40 as President Vladimir Putin visited the city, authorities said. Hours later, police found an unexploded device in one of St. Petersburg’s busiest subway stations, sending a wave of anguish and fear through Putin’s hometown. There ...

  WASHINGTON / AP President Donald Trump welcomed his Egyptian counterpart, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, to the White House on Monday for talks ranging from ways to collaborate in the fight against extremism to efforts to bolster Egypt’s flailing economy. In an Oval Office meeting, Trump said that el-Sissi has done a “fantastic job” and declared his support for Egypt and ...