International

LOS ANGELES — Nine films are now vying for an Academy Award nomination in the foreign language category.

WASHINGTON  — What's the White House's word worth?

TOKYO (Kyodo) — Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen called for dialogue with China but rejected unification with the mainland under Beijing's "one country, two systems" principle as she began her second and final term on Wednesday.

ATLANTA (AP) — Asian Americans were already worn down by a year of pandemic-fueled racist attacks when a white gunman was charged with killing eight people, most of them Asian women, at three Atlanta-area massage parlors.

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar's government began releasing about 2,300 prisoners on Wednesday, including activists who were detained for protesting against the military's seizure of power in February and journalists who reported on the protests, officials said.

Around half of unmarried people under 30 in Japan have no interest in having children, a recent survey by a pharmaceutical firm showed, with...

KUALA LUMPUR (DPA) — Malaysia will hire 1.5 million workers from Bangladesh in stages over the next three years, a senior official said Friday, despite rejecting a plea from the UN to allow more than 150,000 refugees in the country to find jobs.

GENEVA — The U.N. refugee agency says persecution and conflict in places like Syria and Afghanistan raised the total number of refugees and internally displaced people worldwide to a record 65.3 million at the end of last year.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton called him to congratulate him on his victory.

LONDON (AP) — Terrorism struck at the heart of London, police said Sunday, after a vehicle veered off the road and mowed down pedestrians...