Facing a United Nations review of its human rights record, China denied that it held political prisoners and said its government prohibited use of torture. However, exiled dissidents who attended the ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China. Some samples have the potential for epidemic, according to Reuters. Th ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-19
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the US House of Representatives, said an opportunity exists to find "common ground" with Chinese authorities on Tibet, Reuters reported. Pelosi, a longtime criti ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-18
French fighter jets struck Islamic State positions in Syria after Friday's coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-16
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. chairman Jack Ma Yun said he is interested in buying a media property, but he stopped short of confirming it is the South China Morning Post, in which his firm is rumored to ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-12
NATO partners are considering ways of beefing up their training and assistance mission in Afghanistan as doubts grow over the ability of local forces to fight the Taliban insurgents. The Taliban's suc ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-09
China and Vietnam are good socialist neighbors with a long-shared history of revolutionary friendship and should be able to dispel and survive any "disruptions" in their relations, Chinese President X ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-06
Britain has unveiled plans for sweeping new surveillance powers, including the right to find out which websites people visit. The government said the measures are vital to keep the country safe but cr ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-05
Prosecutors called for South Africa's "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder and sent back to jail for shooting his girlfriend, challenging a court's decision to sentence him for a l ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-04
The US Navy plans to conduct patrols within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands in the South China Sea at least twice per quarter, Reuters reported, citing an unidentified American defense officia ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-03
Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) swept to victory in elections on Sunday, returning the country to single-party rule in an outcome that will boost the power of President Tayyip Erdogan. Wi ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-02
Cleaning staff at a museum in Italy showed what they thought of an artwork being exhibited there. The art installation of empty champagne bottles and spent party poppers reopened on Tuesday, three day ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
The House of Lords, Britain's unelected upper house of parliament, briefly reclaimed its long-lost pre-eminence this week when it rejected the government's welfare reforms. The chamber voted to delay ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-28
A guided-missile destroyer from the US Navy on Tuesday came within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands built by China in the South China Sea, a challenge to Beijing's territorial claims in the dis ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-27
The United States and its NATO allies denounced Russia for violating Turkish airspace and Ankara threatened to respond. In Brussels, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization held an emergency meeting of ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-06
Islamic State (IS) militants have blown up the Arch of Triumph, a 2,000-year-old Roman monument in the Syrian city of Palmyra, Syria's antiquities chief said on Sunday. Maamoun Abdulkarim told Reuters ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-05
Bahrain has recalled its ambassador to Iran, a day after it said security forces had discovered a large bomb-making factory and arrested a number of suspects linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Reu ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-02
A gunman opened fire at a community college in southern Oregon on Thursday, killing 13 people and wounding some 20 others before he was shot to death by police, Reuters reported. The shooting rampage ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-02
Hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to join a major ground offensive in support of President Bashar al-Assad's government, Reuters reported, citing Lebanese sources. Russian warplanes, in ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-02
Guyana accused its neighbor Venezuela of "intimidation and aggression" two days after the countries agreed to restore diplomatic ties. In his speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Guyana's Pre ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-30
