Japan, China leaders visit rival capitals in Ukraine war
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida began a surprise visit to Kyiv early Tuesday, hours after Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in neighboring Russia for a three-day visit with Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine casting a shadow over both meetings.
Gwyneth Paltrow to stand trial for Deer Valley ski crash
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow goes on trial starting Tuesday in the Utah ski town of Park City where she is accused in a lawsuit of crashing into a skier during a 2016 family ski vacation, leaving him with brain damage and four broken ribs.
Venezuela oil czar in surprise resignation amid graft probes
The man responsible for running Venezuela’s oil industry — the one that pays for virtually everything in the troubled country, from subsidized food to ridiculously cheap gas — has quit amid investigations into alleged corruption among public officials.
US tells China not to overread likely Taiwan president visit
The Biden administration has been stressing to Beijing that an expected unofficial visit to the United States by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen should not be used as pretext by Beijing to step up aggressive activity in the Taiwan Strait.
Gun used in kidnapping of Americans in Mexico came from US
Federal court documents say the a man who admitted to purchasing firearms that he knew would be going from the U.S. to a Mexican drug cartel was arrested in Texas after the discovery that one of the weapons was linked to the deadly kidnapping of four Americans in the border city of Matamoros.