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Emergency crews attending a scene at the Tate Modern art gallery, London, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. London police say a teenager was arrested after a child "fell from height" at the Tate Modern art gallery. The Metropolitan Police Service said on Twitter that the child was taken to a hospital in an air ambulance, adding "We await an update on his condition." Photo: Yui Mok / PA via AP

Police Seek Motive After 6-Year-Old Thrown from Tate Modern

LONDON — British police said Monday they were searching for a motive after a teenager allegedly threw a 6-year-old boy from a 10th-floor viewing...
FILE - In this June 10, 2019, file photo, a man walks past a money exchange shop decorated with different banknotes at Central, a business district of Hong Kong. The U.S. Treasury Department labeled China a currency manipulator Monday, Aug. 5, after Beijing pushed down the value of its yuan in a dramatic escalation of the trade conflict between the world's two biggest economies. Photo: Kin Cheung / AP File

US Treasury Department Labels China a Currency Manipulator

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department labeled China a currency manipulator Monday after Beijing pushed down the value of its yuan in a dramatic...
A protester throws back a tear gas canister in Hong Kong on Monday, Aug. 5, 2019. Droves of protesters filled public parks and squares in several Hong Kong districts on Monday in a general strike staged on a weekday to draw more attention to their demands that the semi-autonomous Chinese city's leader resign. Photo: Vincent Thian / AP

A Day of Striking Sows Chaos Across Hong Kong

HONG KONG — A general strike in Hong Kong descended into citywide mayhem Monday as defiant protesters started fires outside police stations and hurled...
Students at Baan Khlong 12 School on August 5, 2019 hold signs asking their school director to resign for his suspected involvement in a school lunch that served rotten eggs.

School Director Transferred for School Lunch Allegedly Filled with Rotten Eggs

PRACHINBURI — A school director is being transferred for suspected involvement in a school lunch that contained rotten eggs. Baan Khlong 12 School in Kabinburi...

Protesters to Sue if Gov’t Approves Economic Corridor Zoning

BANGKOK — Demonstrators from three eastern provinces promised Monday to take the government to court if it approves a new economic zoning law which they claim will severely affect their livelihoods.
Commuters queuing up for tickets at Wat Mangkon on August 4.

Khaosod English Tours Bangkok’s Fanciest MRT Stations (Video)

BANGKOK — New MRT stations connected to tourist destinations such as the Grand Palace and Chinatown are becoming destinations themselves as visitors cram to...

Mothers of Bombing Suspects Barred From Visits

BANGKOK — The families of two men detained for alleged connections to a series of bomb attacks in Bangkok last week said Monday they have been barred from visiting the pair.
Protesters with makeshift shields pass through a subway station on their way to a police station in Hong Kong on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. Photo: Kin Cheung / AP

Hong Kong Protests Disrupt Flights, Subways as Strike Called

HONG KONG — At least 100 flights were cancelled and subway service widely disrupted in Hong Kong on Monday as a pro-democracy movement called...
In this March, 20, 2008 file photo, former Khmer Rouge's chief ideologist and No. 2 leader, Nuon Chea, foreground, sits in the court hall before the final statements at the U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo: Heng Sinith, File / AP

Nuon Chea, Ideologue of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, Dies at 93

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Nuon Chea, the chief ideologue of the communist Khmer Rouge regime that destroyed a generation of Cambodians, died Sunday, the...
The home of Connor Betts is seen in Bellbrook, Ohio, U.S., Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. Betts, 24, was killed by police less than a minute after he started shooting a .223-caliber rifle in the streets of Dayton's historic Oregon District about 1 a.m. in the second U.S. mass shooting in less than 24 hours. Police haven't released further information about Betts or publicly discussed a motive. Photo: Bryan Woolston, Pool / AP

Classmates: Ohio Shooter Kept a ‘Hit List’ and a ‘Rape List’

DAYTON, Ohio — High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended for compiling...

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