WASHINGTON / BEIJING—Global stock markets crashed, oil prices fell, and the value of the British currency plunged to a three-decade low after the unprecedented vote for the UK to leave the European Union. Worried investors sought safe havens for their money, and gold prices rose. European markets were down sharply and futures contracts pointed to […]
Police investigators in Jo Cox’s county of Yorkshire in northern England are refusing to confirm or deny that the suspected assassin of the spirited 41-year-old lawmaker may have been motivated by far-right nationalist beliefs. Several eye witnesses to the attack by 52-year-old Thomas Mair, a local man, say he shouted “Britain First” as he shot […]
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA—The head of an infamous Khmer Rouge security center and execution site says he was ordered to destroy the prison and kill all remaining internees on the eve of the Vietnamese military’s arrival in Phnom Penh in January 1979. Kaing Guek Eav, better known as Duch, said Wednesday in his second day of […]
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—The U.S. drone attack that killed the Afghan Taliban’s leader last month in Pakistan damaged “mutual trust” between Islamabad and Washington, intensified hostilities in Afghanistan and seriously set back peace efforts for that war-ravaged country, a Pakistani authority said on the eve of new talks. As senior U.S. officials and their Pakistani counterparts prepare […]