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HANOI (AFP) ― Wearied by the rampant cheating, endless rote learning and mandatory Leninist ideology classes, Vietnam’s middle classes are fleeing the …

A Skymark Airlines aircraft takes off at Haneda Airport in Tokyo. (Bloomberg) TOKYO (AFP) ― Shares in Japan’s Skymark Airlines lost a quarter of their …

NEW YORK (AFP) ― Fast-food giant McDonald’s replaced president and chief executive Donald Thompson on Wednesday, after the company turned in another poor …

MOSCOW (AFP) ― Russia promised government spending cuts but more money for retirees and billions of dollars worth of support for banks as it detailed …

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) ― Facebook on Wednesday reported that its quarterly profit jumped 33.8 percent from last year to $696 million as ad revenue and …

WASHINGTON (AP) ― The Obama administration floated a plan Tuesday that for the first time would open up a broad swath of the Atlantic Ocean to drilling, even …

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― U.S. President Barack Obama won breathing room Tuesday for his nuclear dialogue with Iran, as legislation calling for strict new sanctions …

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― Turning the tide against Boko Haram will require a “huge” international effort, a top U.S. military commander warned on Tuesday, …

JERUSALEM (AFP) ― Israel carried out overnight raids against Syrian army targets, the military said Wednesday, saying Damascus was responsible for rocket …

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― The pilot of a unmanned commercial drone that crashed at the White House and sparked a security alert works for the U.S. National …