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More than a year ago, after the European Union and the U.S. imposed economic sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin’s response resembled …

ROME – Europe’s so-called refugee crisis should never have become an emergency. Accommodating 1 million asylum seekers should not be a huge challenge for …

Working life for most workers in Korea is punishing, with the nation having among the longest working hours among the Organization for Economic Cooperation and …

This week, South Korea was elected chair of the U.N. Human Rights Council for next year. Foreign Ministry officials boast about the fact that it will be the …

What happened at the head temple of the Jogye Order in Seoul over the past weeks offers many things to think about. Most of all, the case exposed some of the …

Nobody knows where Donald Trump will stand six months from now in this bizarre Republican presidential campaign.  But you can predict with some confidence how …

Just like that, Pfizer has decided it’s no longer American. It plans to link up with Ireland’s Allergan and move its corporate headquarters from New York …

Korea’s liberal party has lost to its conservative counterpart in most elections over the past few years. It allowed the conservative party to score landside …

The biannual Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was hosted by Malta from Nov. 27-29, 2015. Surprisingly, the conference did not get much media coverage …

Yu Kun-ha The Korea Development Institute has advised the government to shift its policy focus from short-term solutions aimed at stimulating the economy to …