China is making it much easier for foreigners to use mobile pay

Scanning QR codes with a mobile pay app has become the most common way to pay in mainland China. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Foreign visitors to China can now spend up to $2,000 a year using the mobile app Alipay without having to register their ID, the app operator said Friday. … Read more

Foreigners trapped in violence-torn Haiti wait desperately for a way out

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Dozens of foreigners, including many from the United States and Canada, are stranded in Haiti, desperately trying to leave the violence-torn country where anti-government gangs are battling police and have already shut down both of the country’s international airports. They were in Haiti for reasons ranging from adoptions to missionary … Read more

Putin speeds up a citizenship path for foreigners who enlist in the Russian military

TALLINN, Estonia — President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree that speeds up a path to Russian citizenship for foreigners who enlist in the country’s military amid the 22-month-old war in Ukraine. The move comes as Moscow is trying to replenish its troops in Ukraine by various methods, including the recruitment of migrants. Russia … Read more

Discord leak suspect shared U.S. secrets and techniques with foreigners: Justice Dept.

Touch upon this storyComment The Air Nationwide Guard member accused in a high-profile categorised leaks case seems to have shared delicate secrets and techniques with international nationals and had raised concern amongst his co-workers within the months earlier than he was charged with mishandling and disseminating nationwide safety data, prosecutors mentioned in a court docket … Read more