SEOUL -- South Korea, a nation that prides itself on its adaptive economy and its tight alliance with the United States, has come under pressure from the Obama administration to sacrifice the first for the sake of the second by signing on to stringent new sanctions against Iran . After much...
ISLAMABAD -- The U.S. Army joined efforts Thursday to rescue and provide assistance to some of the 4 million people affected by flooding that continues to cause massive devastation as it spreads across Pakistan.
With a U.S. delegation in attendance for the first time, a Japanese ceremony Friday commemorating history's first atomic bomb attack coincided with renewed hopes that President Obama will visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki, something no sitting U.S. president has done.
SEOUL -- North Korea on Sunday seized a South Korean fishing boat that apparently had sailed into an East Sea zone that the North views as its own, a move that could agitate already tense relations on the peninsula.
KABUL -- A new report that shows civilian casualties have soared in Afghanistan largely because of increased insurgent violence was thrown into relief Tuesday when a pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up and killed two other Afghans outside a foreign guesthouse in central Kabul.
U.S. stocks fell Thursday for the third straight day as weak economic data and disappointing corporate earnings reports continued to feed investors' fears that the global recovery has stalled.
Wang Aijun is the editor of the Beijing News, one of China's most influential private daily newspapers. Yet here in the capital, Wang said, he often feels like a second-class citizen.
SEOUL -- A career politician named Jang Song Taek recently became the second most powerful man in North Korea, injecting a dose of unpredictability into the power handoff playing out in Pyongyang between a father too sick and a son too young to manage the transition alone.
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN -- Staggered by the scale of destruction from this summer's catastrophic floods, Pakistani officials have begun to acknowledge that the country's security could be gravely affected if more international aid does not arrive soon.
BEIJING -- A plane thought to be a military fighter jet crashed into a fruit field in northeastern China on Tuesday, and China's official state-run news agency said the aircraft may have come from North Korea.
UNITED NATIONS -- The United States pledged an additional $60 million Thursday to the U.N. flood relief effort in Pakistan, bringing its total contribution to $150 million in a move designed to encourage other governments and private donors to boost their aid.
The forthcoming extradition of a major reputed arms dealer to the United States could yield the Obama administration a treasure trove of intelligence about the networks that move weapons and drugs around the world and about the governments that secretly facilitate the traffic.
SUKKUR, PAKISTAN - The United States is diverting some of its five-year, multibillion-dollar aid package for Pakistan to flood recovery and will reevaluate plans for the remainder because the disaster has dramatically altered the country's needs, the top U.S. aid official said Wednesday.
The release of a U.S. citizen imprisoned in North Korea since January satisfied the main goal of a trip to Pyongyang by former president Jimmy Carter. But Carter's mission was also noteworthy for what did not happen - a meeting with Kim Jong Il.
The U.S. government designated the Pakistani Taliban a terrorist group Wednesday and accused its leader, Hakimullah Mehsud, of involvement in a December suicide bombing that killed seven Americans at a forward CIA post in eastern Afghanistan.
KABUL -- The two ousted executives of Afghanistan's largest bank have blamed a hasty management purge for a run on the embattled institution this week.
North Korea will release seven crew members detained since last month after their fishing boat was captured in the East Sea, Pyongyang's news agency said Monday.
KABUL - Fears over the future of ailing Kabul Bank grew violent Wednesday as state police beat back crowds of frustrated Afghan government workers attempting to withdraw their salaries on the final day before a four-day national holiday.
ISLAMABAD -- The U.S. Army joined efforts Thursday to rescue and provide assistance to some of the 4 million people affected by flooding that continues to cause massive devastation as it spreads across Pakistan.
With a U.S. delegation in attendance for the first time, a Japanese ceremony Friday commemorating history's first atomic bomb attack coincided with renewed hopes that President Obama will visit Hiroshima or Nagasaki, something no sitting U.S. president has done.
SEOUL -- North Korea on Sunday seized a South Korean fishing boat that apparently had sailed into an East Sea zone that the North views as its own, a move that could agitate already tense relations on the peninsula.
KABUL -- A new report that shows civilian casualties have soared in Afghanistan largely because of increased insurgent violence was thrown into relief Tuesday when a pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up and killed two other Afghans outside a foreign guesthouse in central Kabul.
U.S. stocks fell Thursday for the third straight day as weak economic data and disappointing corporate earnings reports continued to feed investors' fears that the global recovery has stalled.
Wang Aijun is the editor of the Beijing News, one of China's most influential private daily newspapers. Yet here in the capital, Wang said, he often feels like a second-class citizen.
