BEIJING / AP A small explosion at a check-in area of Shanghai’s Pudong airport injured three people on Sunday, Chinese authorities said. The blast at China’s second-busiest airport occurred around 2:20 p.m. and appeared to have been caused by some sort of homemade explosive, the airport’s management said on its verified microblog account. It said the three injured people ...

  Seoul / AFP A salvage firm on Sunday began a difficult and costly operation to raise a sunken South Korean ferry which capsized at sea more than two years ago in a disaster that shocked and enraged the country. The Sewol was carrying 476 people when it sank off the southwestern island of Jindo in April 2014, with the ...

  Bloomberg Donald Trump returned to the combative form that helped him win the US Republican presidential nomination, slamming Democrats, calling for his party to unite behind him, and responding to Mitt Romney’s suggestion that his election could lead to “trickle-down racism.” At a rallyin Tampa, Florida, the presumptive Republican nominee termed himself “the least racist person that you have ...