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The United Nations ripped the United States on Friday for denying Mexican death row inmates access to their homeland’s diplomats. Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN high commissioner for human rights, condemned Wednesday’s execution of Mexican citizen…

With the world’s biggest military, China far outnumbers rival Japan in manpower, ships, aircraft and defence spending, but analysts say underlying weaknesses leave it still wary of a fight. The two Asian powers are embroiled in simmering territorial…

A Chinese beekeeper covered his semi-naked body in more than 460,000 bees for a publicity stunt aimed at selling more of his honey, he told AFP Thursday, using a technique known as “bee bearding.” She Ping, a 34-year-old honey merchant from the southwestern…