Japan's government bonds are in free fall as investors take a dim view of an atmosphere of competitive spending on the ...

Dozens of beaches along Australia's east coast, including in Sydney, closed on Tuesday after four shark attacks in two days, as heavy rains left waters murky and more likely to attract the animals.

Police detectives in Nakuru have arrested one individual suspected of trafficking heroin valued at Kes. 1.19 million.

Rose Girone was eight months pregnant and living in Breslau, Germany, in 1938 when her husband was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. She secured passage to Shanghai, only to be forced to live ...

During World War II, while the United States limited immigration to the country and turned away a barge full of Jewish refugees, one port city kept its doors open to Europe’s persecuted Jews: Shanghai ...

Sign up for Weekday J and get the latest on what's happening in the Jewish Bay Area. Ilse Bloch ended her journey two months shy of 100 years. She was a loving ...

Heinz Gewing passed away at the age of 91 surrounded by his family. Born in Leoben, Austria, he spent his childhood in Shanghai, China, one of the only countries in the world that would accept Jewish ...

At age 112, Holocaust survivor Rose Girone is still, as her daughter puts it, “thumbing her nose at Hitler.” But the recent rise of antisemitism, fueled by the ongoing war in Gaza, is a frightening ...

During World War II, Shanghai, China saved an estimated 20,000 European Jewish lives by welcoming refugees fleeing the Nazis. Many countries refused to offer visas to Jews. Shanghai had no passport ...