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Iran's Kiarostami goes to Japan for latest film
Abbas Kiarostami has found inspiration far from home. The Iranian director's films are routinely banned in his home country, whose Islamist government ...
US warns NKorea against another nuke test
The top U.S. envoy for North Korea warned Pyongyang on Monday that any nuclear test would be a serious miscalculation that would unify the world in ...
Europe stocks inch up after G8 vague on Europe fix
European stocks inched up Monday morning in spite of investors' lingering concerns that the G-8 leaders had failed to provide a concrete plan to solve ...
IOC to pick finalists for 2020 Summer Olympics
As the torch relay traverses Britain ahead of the July 27 opening of the London Games, the IOC is looking much further ahead: Where will the Olympic ...
G-8 warns North Korea about further provocations
The Group of Eight world leaders has warned North Korea that it faces more sanctions if it continues to threaten the stability of the region with ...
Trapped Chinese coal miner rescued after 17 days
A Chinese coal miner has been rescued after being trapped underground for 17 days by an underground flood that killed at least 10 others.
Taiwan's Ma signals no China change as term starts
Taiwan's president has signaled that he will continue the China policy that helped him get re-elected as he begins his second four-year term.
Chinese activist who fled house arrest lands in US
A blind Chinese legal activist who was suddenly allowed to leave the country arrived in the United States on Saturday, ending a nearly monthlong ...
G-8 express hope Greece will stay in the eurozone
Leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations expressed hope that Greece will remain in the eurozone as they huddled for a shirt-sleeves summit ...
G-8 leaders put focus on European financial crisis
Drawn together in this serene mountain outpost, leaders of the major industrialized nations are prodding Germany to balance its push for European ...
73-year-old Japanese woman scales Mount Everest
A 73-year-old Japanese woman climbed to Mount Everest's peak Saturday, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's ...
Iran, Syria among topics for G-8 and NATO
President Barack Obama and leaders of other major industrial powers stepped outside discussions of European economic woes and Afghanistan that will ...
Canada pleased with Chinese smuggler's sentence
The Canadian government says it is pleased that a high-profile Chinese smuggler who had been extradited from Canada has received a life sentence, and ...
European financial woes push markets lower
Concerns that Europe's debt crisis could drag down parts of the continent's banking system rattled global markets on Friday, while the IPO of social ...
Europe woes keep markets on edge
Concerns that Europe's debt crisis could drag down parts of the continent's banking system rattled most global markets Friday, though social network ...
World stock markets sink on US, Europe worries
World stocks fell Friday after credit downgrades slapped on Spanish banks unnerved investors already worried about the stability of the 17-country ...
China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term
The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached ...
Peru's famed hostage raid investigated
Peruvians traumatized by years of guerrilla violence cheered in 1997 when government troops raided the Japanese ambassador's residence to rescue ...
China shadow looming, Taiwan's Ma set for 2nd term
Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou has leveraged growing economic ties with China to reduce tensions to their lowest level since the two sides split in ...
US imposes stiff tariffs on China solar panels
The Obama administration moved Thursday to impose stiff new tariffs on solar panels made in China, finding that Chinese companies are improperly ...
US gov't sets stiff tariffs on China solar panels
The Obama administration moved Thursday to impose stiff new tariffs on solar panels made in China, finding that Chinese companies are improperly ...