Beijing / AFP A tropical storm made landfall in China Saturday afternoon, the country’s national meteorological center said, a day after super Typhoon Nepartak lashed Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rain. Nepartak, which has weakened to a tropical storm since it brought chaos to Taiwan on Friday, hit the city of Shishi in the southeastern Fujian province at ...

  Bloomberg The two rivals to become the U.K.’s next prime minister stepped up their campaigns, with Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom extolling the virtues of motherhood while Home Secretary Theresa May, who is childless, pledged to get Britain through the “difficult times” that Brexit would bring. David Cameron’s successor will be chosen by the Conservative Party’s 150,000 members. May, who ...

  TEHRAN / AP Iran said on Saturday it will continue its ballistic missile program, after the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said that the missile tests aren’t in the spirit of the country’s landmark nuclear deal with world powers. “Iran will strongly continue its missile program based on its own defense and national security calculations,” foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi ...