HONG KONG / TAIPEI (Reuters) – The Hong Kong government said Tuesday that Taiwan had rejected the visas of two of its officials, underscoring mounting bilateral tensions after Taipei criticized a security law imposed by Beijing on the financial center. The two officials from the Hong Kong Economic, Commercial and …

Ukrainian authorities arrested a man on Tuesday who had taken more than a dozen hostages on a bus, ending a 12-hour clash with police, authorities said. The 13 hostages on the bus were released unharmed. The suspect had initially released three of the hostages, including a pregnant woman, after negotiations …

In recent seasons, “Grey’s Anatomy” has addressed timely social issues such as racism, homelessness, rape, and the deportation of DACA beneficiaries. Now, the program plans to address the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on first responders, an executive producer announced Tuesday. “There is no way to be a long-running medical …

A gunman who took 13 hostages in a western Ukrainian city with an automatic rifle released captives after a 12-hour standoff after the country’s president publicly recommended a film by Joaquin Phoenix in 2005 at the captor’s request. The gunman, Maksym Kryvosh, 44, took control of a bus with the …

SYDNEY / LONDON (Reuters) – Global coronavirus infections rose more than 15 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters count, with the pace of the pandemic even as countries remain divided in their response to the crisis. FILE PHOTO: Emergency medical technicians clean their supplies outside Memorial West Hospital, where …