Bloomberg China said recent violence in Hong Kong protests was the “creation of the US,” for the first time laying direct blame on Washington as their dispute over the unrest escalates. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the remark at a news briefing in response to comments by US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo. The top American diplomat had ...

RAWALPINDI / WAM A Pakistani military aircraft on a training flight crashed in a built-up area in the garrison city of Rawalpindi killing all five crew members and 12 civilians and setting off a blaze that left a pile of smoking rubble, Reuters has reported. A statement from the Pakistani military said the aircraft was on a routine training flight ...

Bloomberg At least 52 prisoners were killed during a prison riot in the northern Brazilian state of Para, with 16 of the victims decapitated, according to a statement from prison authorities. The superintendent of the Regional Recovery Center in Altamira, Jarbas Vasconcelas, said that the violence broke out as a result of a territorial dispute between two rival criminal gangs ...