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Rival political parties agreed Tuesday to convene an extra parliamentary session next month to handle pending bills, including one aimed at rooting out …
A South Korean teenager who recently vanished in Turkey may have crossed the border into Syria to join the Islamic State, a Seoul official said Tuesday. The …
The Chinese businessman who bought an unfinished Soviet-era vessel that became his country’s first aircraft carrier was never paid back the $120 million …
A police officer and an inmate were killed and 29 prisoners wounded Monday in the latest riot to hit Brazil’s overcrowded prison system, authorities …
A worker at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant died Tuesday after falling into a water tank, the country’s nuclear operator said, the second …
The main opposition party vowed Tuesday to review the government’s new tax settlement scheme amid public anger over the larger tax burden for middle and …
President Park Geun-hye said Tuesday that she will conduct a small-scale Cabinet shake-up and partly reorganize the presidential office as she seeks to regain …
Barack Obama faces the massed ranks of Congress on Tuesday for the first time since his party lost control there, but don’t expect him to cut a humbler …
A Seoul court judge has been put under emergency arrest on suspicion of taking bribes from a notorious loan shark in return for legal favors, prosecutors said …
South Korea plans to develop military reconnaissance satellites and deploy five units by 2022 as part of efforts to beef up defense capabilities to better …