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VIENNA ― In these days of economic woe, potential pandemic disease, and widespread civil unrest, it may come as a surprise that so many people around the …

While Korea’s baseball league has entered its final, most exciting stretch with the ongoing best-of-seven Korean Series, the national pastime is being hit by …

Price forecasts from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries have never been particularly reliable, so it’s easy do dismiss the latest one ― a …

WASHINGTON ― What a difference 25 years can make. In 1989, Central and Eastern Europe embarked upon a historic transformation, from authoritarian communism …

Two friendly European Union leaders told U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron this week they’ll oppose him if he tries to chip away at the free movement of …

In “The Secret Life of Barack Obama,” our story begins, as such stories often do, with our hero in a dream. He’s photographed on a Hawaiian beach, posed …

Can Lee Hee-ho, the widow of former President Kim Dae-jung, create a breakthrough in the icy relations between Seoul and Pyongyang? That is the question being …

WASHINGTON ― President Barack Obama looked almost relieved after Tuesday’s election blowout. A man who has been perhaps the least political president in …

Beijing and Tokyo have agreed to work on improving relations, paving the way for a possible summit between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime …

LONDON ― This is a tricky time to be a state, and an even trickier time to be a citizen. The nation-state, the classic provider of security and basic …