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A projected graphic shows the price for a 32GB Amazon Fire Phone in Seattle on Wednesday. (AP-Yonhap) Amazon.com Inc. jumped into the smartphone market with a …

Exxon Mobil Corp. and BP Plc began removing employees in Iraq as militants continued a push toward Baghdad and a battle raged for control of the nation’s …

China’s Premier Li Keqiang. (Bloomberg) Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said that the nation will avoid a hard landing, while limiting the scale of any stimulus …

Japanese firms boosted their cash stockpile to a record in the first quarter, underlining challenges Prime Minister Shinzo Abe faces a year and a half into his …

NEW YORK (AFP) ― Argentina will not make a bond service payment due June 30 in New York as ordered by a U.S. judge, the economy ministry said Wednesday, …

The Federal Reserve slashed its 2014 growth forecast for the US economy after the rough winter but kept policy on hold on Wednesday, showing faith in a modest …

BAGHDAD (AP) ― Nearly four dozen Sunni detainees were gunned down at a jail north of Baghdad, a car bomb struck a Shiite neighborhood of the capital and four …

HANOI (AP) ― China and Vietnam, caught up in an increasingly bitter confrontation over disputed waters, have a common desire to solve their tensions, a top …

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) ― Sixty-six people were missing on Wednesday after an apparently-overloaded boat carrying Indonesian illegal migrants sank in rough waters …

A young boy holds a banner reading “My father is a patriot! Give him rest!” as relatives and children of Ukrainian servicemen taking part in operations …