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SLAVYANSK, Ukraine (AFP) ― Ukraine’s new leader threatened on Tuesday to revoke his truce after pro-Russian rebels downed an army helicopter despite …

LONDON (AFP) ― British Prime Minister David Cameron’s former media chief Andy Coulson was convicted of phone hacking Tuesday but one-time Rupert Murdoch …

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Nearly half of the roughly 300 U.S. military advisers and special operations forces expected to go to Iraq are now in Baghdad and have …

TAIPEI (AP) ― China has sent its first ever ministerial-level official to Taiwan for four days of meetings to rebuild ties with the self-ruled island that …

WASHINGTON (AFP) ― U.S. consumer confidence increased for the second straight month in June to its highest level since January 2008, when the U.S. economy …

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the deflation that wiped out much of Japan’s growth the past 15 years and so stunted the economy that it slipped to No. 3 …

VIENNA (AFP) ― Coinciding with a visit to Vienna by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian energy giant Gazprom on Tuesday signed a deal with Austria’s …

A model promotes IBK’s household expenses account. Bank – IBK The Industrial Bank of Korea once again confirmed that it was the right financial …

A solar eclipse is seen from the Dome Fuji Station, some 1,000 kilometers south of the Japanese observation base at Showa. (AFP) Tokyo (AFP) ― Japan is …

TOKYO (AP) ― The new robot guides at a Tokyo museum look so eerily human and speak so smoothly they almost outdo people ― almost. Japanese robotics expert …