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The financial debacle that has befallen Russia as the price of Brent crude dropped 50 percent in the last four months has overshadowed the one that potentially …

Nearly 1 in 10 Korean youths in their 20s was jobless last year. The youth unemployment rate at 9.1 percent was the highest since the country was hit by the …

To some critics, President Park Geun-hye might have seemed more flexible toward North Korea’s recalcitrant regime than toward domestic calls for her to …

The French, united ― as Sunday’s march through Paris showed ― will fight back, President Francois Hollande vowed after last week’s horrific massacre of …

Five years ago, the world watched in horror as a magnitude-7.0 earthquake rattled Haiti to its core. In a country where so many were already struggling under …

This winter, Tehran has been a place of conferences and complaints. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday addressed a conference on the economy and …

Michel Houellebecq, the controversial French writer, recently published an intriguing, futuristic novel entitled “Submission.” The novel is set in 2022, a …

PARIS ― “France’s 9/11.” In the immediate aftermath of the massacre at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the comparison with al-Qaida’s 2001 …

The lack of senior U.S. government officials at free speech, anti-terrorism rallies in Paris and Washington on Sunday left many wondering why President Barack …

The deportation of a Korean-American woman accused of engaging in pro-North Korean activity has become a fresh issue of contention between conservatives and …