Ludhiana: Four people were on Wednesday arrested in connection with attack on Sikh leader Baba Ranjit Singh in Ludhiana in Punjab, in which one person was killed. Baba Sikh preacher Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale had a narrow escape on Tuesday evening when a group of unidentified assailants opened fire at his …

Lagos (Nigeria), May 18 Nigerian soldiers have found one of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram from Chibok, making her the first freed from the Islamic extremists since the mass kidnapping more than two years ago. Her uncle describes her as pregnant and traumatized but otherwise fine. Amina Ali Nkeki is …

BEIJING (AP) – Exactly 50 years ago, China embarked on what was formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a decade of tumult launched by Mao Zedong to revive communist goals and enforce a radical egalitarianism. The milestone was largely ignored Monday in the Chinese media, reflecting continuing sensitivities …

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. companies have found it can be tough to do business in China. Now, as more Chinese firms invest in the United States, they’re finding it can be hard to contend with Chinese companies on American turf, too. Chinese companies can hide behind complex corporate structures. They …

MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Presumptive Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said Monday he will reimpose the death penalty, offer Cabinet posts to communist rebels, and move to amend the constitution to give more power to the provinces, in some of his first policy pronouncements since winning last week’s election based on …

LONDON (AP) – Presidential candidate Donald Trump says he may have a poor relationship with Prime Minister David Cameron in light of the British leader’s criticism of Trump’s call for all Muslims to be temporarily banned from entering the United States. Trump’s comments, broadcast Monday on ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold their first joint military training next month focused on cooperating to detect signs of missile launches from North Korea and trace missile trajectories, a Seoul defense official said Monday. The drills, set for around June 28, …

WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. business lobby says it is high time to drop the remaining U.S. sanctions on Myanmar, but human rights activists and U.S. lawmakers say not so fast. Former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi is now running the government after winning elections. Still, the military continues …

ZARAZA, Venezuela (AP) – It was once billed as a model of socialist fraternity: South America’s first high-speed train, powered by Chinese technology, crisscrossing Venezuela to bring development to its backwater plains. Now all but abandoned, it has become a symbol of economic collapse – and a strategic relationship gone …

MYRSINI, Greece (AP) – At the end of a long, straight road on the coastal flats between the southern Greek village of Myrsini and the Ionian Sea sits a refugee shelter that could have popped out of a travel brochure. The 338 Syrians and Iraqis who have been living there …