Politics

BEIIJING (AP) — Travelers entering China will no longer need to provide a negative PCR test result starting Saturday, in another easing of China's “zero COVID” policies.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's public safety chief has come under fire for his remark that he enjoyed eel rice so much that he kept eating after his agency informed him of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's narrow escape from a pipe bomb attack two weeks ago.

TORONTO — Kris Langenfeld has run for mayor in Toronto twice already – and has lost both times – but that isn't stopping him from trying his luck again.

HALIFAX — In the coming days, the federal and Nova Scotia governments will face the first deadline for action recommended by the inquiry that investigated the worst mass shooting in Canadian history.

MONTREAL — Along a downtown Montreal street, in sight of city hall, orange-and-white-striped traffic cones stand in a row on the sidewalk.

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China warned against continued U.S.-Taiwan cooperation Wednesday, responding to reports that the U.S.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — For Ruslan, an engineer in the Belarus capital of Minsk, Russia's war in neighboring Ukraine suddenly seemed closer than ever when a conscription office recently sent him a summons for military training.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Florida Gov.

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BEIJING (AP) — A veteran Chinese journalist who worked at a ruling Communist Party-affiliated newspaper and was a Harvard University fellow faces espionage charges after being detained while meeting with a Japanese diplomat in a restaurant, his famil