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By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times Joe Biden hasn’t decided whether to run for president, but he tells almost everyone who asks that he’s giving it …

By Shang-Jin Wei To hear some pundits tell it, China’s economic miracle ― one that lifted 300 million people out of poverty and shifted the world’s …

What does Israel do now that President Obama has won the congressional votes needed to implement an Iran nuclear agreement that Prime Minister Benjamin …

It embarrasses us to guess what thoughts came across the mind of a soldier who lost both of his legs in land mine explosions last month when he knew he would …

Korea’s gross national income fell 0.1 percent from a quarter earlier to 375 trillion won ($312 billion) in the April-June period, marking the first drop …

The sight of President Park Geun-hye standing alongside Chinese leader Xi Jinping, with Russian President Vladimir Putin placed between them, at a massive …

In 1928, famed British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that technology would advance so far in a hundred years — by 2028 — that it would replace …

The finance and justice ministers said in a joint statement this week that the government would offer immunity to people and corporations that come clean over …

Indoneisian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo accepted on Tuesday eight candidates for the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) commissioner posts, who had …

In January, the Indian government asked for public opinion on tougher new laws to curb smoking: To raise the minimum smoking age to 21 from 18, and to ban the …