International

NEW YORK — The movie theater was dead, they said. After ticket sales slumped in 2017, due largely to the worst summer season in more than...

BEIJING (AP) — China has banned the BBC World News television channel in a diplomatic fight with Britain after British regulators revoked the license of state-owned Chinese broadcaster CGTN.

CHICAGO — R&B singer R. Kelly is moving out of his Chicago recording studio because a judge has stymied his creativity by barring him...

TOKYO (Kyodo) — Two all-boy idol groups -- NEWS and SixTONES -- will postpone their respective concerts scheduled for this weekend and early next month due to fears over the spread of the coronavirus in Japan, their talent agency Johnny & Associates Inc. said Tuesday.

TOKYO — Japan's soon-to-be-anointed new emperor is a musician and historian, both mild-mannered and quietly tenacious, a team player and a loyal husband and friend who will bring an unusually global perspective to an ancient institution when he ascends the Chrysanthemum Throne on May 1.

JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Saturday to annex Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank if re-elected, a dramatic policy shift apparently aimed at rallying his nationalist base in the final stretch of the tight race.

YANGON (DPA) — The Myanmar military will not tolerate any threat to this year's elections, the army chief said Friday.

DE PERE, Wis. (AP) — Alexis Arnold says she’s sympathetic toward protesters who have peacefully fought racial injustice this summer. But as some demonstrations spiral into violence, her anxiety is building.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India will be the world's most populous country by the end of this month, eclipsing an aging China, the United...

BEIJING  — It’s not uncommon for individuals who speak out against the government to disappear in China, but the scope of the “disappeared” has expanded since President Xi Jinping came to power in 2013.