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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has the authority to use an unmanned drone strike to kill US citizens on American soil, his attorney general has...
BORNEO – A standoff between Malaysian security forces and armed intruders from the Philippines now in its third week, the death toll rose to 60...
PYONGYANG – An enraged North Korea responded to new UN sanctions with fresh threats of nuclear war Friday, vowing to scrap peace pacts with South...
BEIGING – China and Russia are buying increasingly powerful surveillance technologies to intercept communications and try to take control of the Internet, a senior U.S....
PYONGYANG – North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a...
YANGON – Myanmar’s military has been granted a $2.4 billion annual budget, just over 12 percent of total government spending in the poverty-stricken country, according...
BEIJING — Domestic politics trumps international politics, in China as everywhere. So even though China lost a friend in President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, who...
BEIJING – Incoming Chinese president Xi Jinping has made fighting corruption one of his priorities, so it is perhaps not surprising the National People’s Congress,...
BEIJING – China’s naval and paramilitary ships are churning up the ocean around islands it disputes with Tokyo in what experts say is a strategy...
SHANGHAI – Chinese couples are rushing to divorce before a new tax on home sales hits after the government cracked down on property speculation, the...