BEIJING China’s government pledged today to deliver robust growth, pursue advanced technology and boost military spending while urging the public to embrace President Xi Jinping’s rule as its ceremonial legislature prepared for changes to allow Xi to stay in power indefinitely. The plan to end constitutional limits on Xi’s term as president has overshadowed the […]

SEOUL, South Korea Envoys for South Korean President Moon Jae- in planned to meet today with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the start of a rare two- day visit to Pyongyang that’s expected to focus on how to ease a standoff over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and restart talks between Pyongyang and Washington. […]

WASHINGTON Russia will “ never” extradite any of the 13 Russians indicted by the United States for election-meddling, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, even as he insisted they didn’t act on behalf of his government. Putin’s comments in an NBC News interview that aired Sunday illustrated the long odds that the Russian operatives will ever […]

SAN DIEGO A program that temporarily shields hundreds of thousands of young people from deportation was scheduled to end today but court orders have forced the Trump administration to keep issuing renewals, easing the sense of urgency. In September, Trump said he was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program but gave Congress six […]

BEIRUT (AP) — Desperate for food and basic medicines, many of the besieged and bombarded Syrian civilians in Damascus’ eastern suburbs of Ghouta waited today for a 46-truck convoy organized by the United Nations and key aid agencies to enter the rebel-held enclave. Pawel Krzysiek of the International Committee of the Red Cross said the […]

ROME (AP) — A rival pair of populist and stridently anti-European Union political forces surged in Italy’s parliamentary election at the expense of the country’s traditional political powers, but neither gained enough support to govern alone, preliminary results showed today. With no faction winning a clear majority and a hung Parliament expected, the results confirmed […]