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Shoppers spent nearly $8 billion in the first 10 hours of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s “Singles Day” event on Wednesday, the firm said, reinforcing …

Helmut Schmidt, the chancellor who guided West Germany through economic turbulence and Cold War tensions, died Tuesday. He was 96. German weekly Die Zeit, of …

TOKYO – The Japanese government’s debt is expected to reach just over 1,167 trillion yen ($9.469 trillion) in the 2015 fiscal year, according to data …

Pope Francis is insisting that the Catholic Church shun all temptations of power, prestige and money as he presses his reform agenda amid new scandal in the …

Afghanistan’s spy agency says it has freed eight people who were among a large group of ethnic minority Hazaras kidnapped earlier this year. The National …

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar`s opposition leader and chairperson of the National League for Democracy, arrives at the party headquarters in Yangon, Myanmar, …

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) – The foreign minister of the Maldives said Monday that a monthlong state of emergency declared by the president last week may be …

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday hinted at a victory by her party in the country’s historic …

BERLIN (Reuters) ― Several Volkswagen engineers have admitted manipulating carbon dioxide emissions data because goals set by former chief executive Martin …

SINGAPORE (AP) ― Many thought it might never happen: The presidents of China and Taiwan― inheritors to the Communist and Nationalist regimes that fought a …