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China remains passive as Korean standoff escalates
BEIJING — South Korea warned Friday that it will order airstrikes if North Korea again launches artillery at the South, raising its military posture as Pyongyang reportedly deployed new rockets capable of hitting the South Korean capital...
Bahrain sentences 8 activists to life in prison
CAIRO — Bahrain sentenced eight activists to life in...
President of Eritrea dismisses allegations
ASMARA, Eritrea — In this lonely corner of the world, the...
Japan economy grows more than expected
TOKYO — Japan's economy grew more than expected in the July...
Laos continues to block public access to deported Hmong tribesmen
WASHINGTON — A California congressman has joined human rights activists in voicing concern over the treatment of ethnic Hmong deported by Thailand late last year to their native Laos and now being confined in isolated villages inaccessible to international news ...
12-year-old heart transplant patient returns to Japan from U.S.
NARITA, Japan — A 12-year-old boy who received a heart transplant in the United States in July has returned home to Japan and is looking forward to seeing his friends again...
Three inmates killed in botched prison escape in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — United Nations troops and Haitian National Police...
Ruling Yemen gets even more complicated
SANA, Yemen — President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who once described ruling Yemen...
Afghans await a sign of American support
KABUL, Afghanistan — The residents of the Afghan capital...
China ruling portends more trade action in 2010
WASHINGTON — A ruling Wednesday by the U.S. International Trade Commission...
