WASHINGTON – Weather-related flight cancellations and delays that snarled US commercial air traffic over the holiday weekend dragged on through Monday, with Southwest Airlines accounting for the bulk of the lingering disruptions a day after Christmas. More than 3,800 US airline flights were canceled on Monday, including 2,800 operated by Southwest, or nearly 70% ...
JERUSALEM – Several leading Israeli businesses pledged on Monday to strengthen their internal anti–discrimination rules following remarks by hard-right members of Israel’s incoming government seen as undermining gender equality and minority rights. The remarks, including a call to scrap the Jerusalem gay pride march and another to ...
BEIJING – Chinese people, cut off from the rest of the world for three years by COVID-19 curbs, flocked to travel sites on Tuesday ahead of borders reopening, even as rising infections further strained the health system and roiled the economy. Zero-tolerance ...
RUSSIA’S nuclear arsenal and the rules Moscow has laid out for its use are the only factors preventing the West from starting a war against Russia, a top ally of President Vladimir Putin said in an article published on Sunday. ...
BEIJING/SHANGHAI — Mask-wearing Beijing and Shanghai commuters crowded subway trains on Monday, with China’s two biggest cities edging closer to living with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as millions have been infected with the largely unchecked virus across the country. After ...
TAIPEI — Seventy-one Chinese air force aircraft including fighter jets and drones entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone in the past 24 hours, the island’s government said on Monday, the largest reported incursion to date. Of the aircraft, 43 also ...
Bloomberg L.P. has no interest in acquiring either Dow Jones or the Washington Post, a Bloomberg L.P. spokesman said in a tweet. “There have been no conversations with anyone or either organization about an acquisition,” spokesman Ty Trippet said in ...
Saudi Arabia and Japan signed a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) on Sunday in the fields of the circular carbon economy, carbon recycling, clean hydrogen and fuel ammonia, the Saudi Energy Ministry said on Twitter. The MoC was signed by Saudi ...
Former Maldives President Abdulla Yameen. — WIKIMEDIA COMMONS MALE — The Maldives criminal court on Sunday sentenced former president Abdulla Yameen to 11 years in prison and fined him $5 million after finding him guilty of corruption and money laundering ...
LONDON — Britain’s King Charles invoked his late mother, Queen Elizabeth, in his first Christmas message to the nation as monarch and spoke of his faith in humanity at a time of “great anxiety and hardship.” Charles said he shares ...