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People walk along Nanjing Pedestrian Road. Picture credits ( Reuters ) China’s population is growing at its slowest pace since the 1960s, with falling births and a greying workforce presenting the Communist Party with one of its gravest social and economic challenges. Figures for a census conducted last year and …

William Lewis Reece faces charges of first-degree murder and kidnapping. AP Photo OKLAHOMA CITY: Jury selection continued Tuesday in the death penalty trial of an alleged serial killer accused of kidnapping and killing an Oklahoma woman more than 20 years ago. William Lewis Reece, 61, faces charges of first-degree murder …

The nation’s most populous state county has an estimated 161,000 people experiencing homelessness, which is more than any other state. AP Photo SAN FRANCISCO: California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed $12 billion in new funding to get more people experiencing homelessness in the state into housing and to “functionally …

Reta Mays has a history of mental health issues, and offered no explanation for why she killed the men. AP Photo CHARLESTON: A former nursing assistant who killed seven elderly veterans with fatal injections of insulin at a West Virginia hospital was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday by …

Deng Ming, deputy director of the National Narcotics Control Commission. AP Photo BEIJING: China on Tuesday said it will add all synthetic cannabinoids to its list of banned drugs, in what it described as a first in the world, to curb their manufacturing, trafficking and abuse. It is the second …

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga. AP Photo TOKYO: Japan‘s governing party is renewing its push for its long-cherished goal of revising the country’s pacifist constitution, saying effective anti-coronavirus measures such as lockdowns aren’t possible without an emergency clause in the charter providing enforcement and the limiting of private rights. The powerful …

Spain approved a pioneering law that gives delivery platforms a mid-August deadline to hire the workers currently freelancing for them. AP Photo MADRID: Spain approved a pioneering law Tuesday that gives delivery platforms a mid-August deadline to hire the workers currently freelancing for them and that requires transparency of artificial …

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during a campaign stop at the Scamman Farm, in Stratham, NH. File: AP Photo STRATHAM: A fire destroyed a barn at a New Hampshire farm that’s been the backdrop for political events for Republican presidents and candidates through the years. The fire burned down …

Pope Francis (AFP, file photo) ROME: Pope Francis on Tuesday formally created a new lay ministry to encourage greater participation of secular women and men in the teaching of the Catholic faith, especially in places where priests are in short supply. The new law creating the lay ministry of catechists …

French President Emmanuel Macron PARIS: The government of French President Emmanuel Macron reacted with fury on Monday after a group of serving French soldiers published an open letter warning that “civil war” was brewing over his “concessions” to Islamism, weeks after a similar message from elements in the military rocked …