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TOKYO, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Chinese Foreign Minister Liang Guanglie kicked off a five-day Japanese visit Friday by meeting with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. Liang hopes to build defense cooperation between the two countries...
BY ANANT VIJAY KALA, HARSH JOSHI AND SUBHADIP SIRCAR HYDERABAD/AHMEDABAD, India –The Reserve Bank of India will study the impact of the Dubai debt crisis on the country and will ask lenders to report exposure to Dubai World,...
Sometimes it's those news stories that don't feel the love from cable talk shows or fall flat in blogosphere that reveal the most about what really happened in any given year. 2009 had plenty of them. From a naval alliance that...
Humans have expended a great deal of intellectual energy over the past few thousand years trying to understand the morality (or amorality) of seeking pleasure. The neurotransmitter dopamine isn't quite that powerful, but...
Nepal's cabinet will meet in the shadow of Mount Everest next week to highlight the impact of global warming on the Himalayas ahead of United Nations climate talks in Copenhagen, officials said Saturday. Twenty-six ministers,...
REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND PRIME MINISTER YUKIO HATOYAMA OF JAPAN IN JOINT PRESS CONFERENCE PRIME MINISTER HATOYAMA: (As translated.) Now, in relation to nuclear issues, North Korea, Iran was also discussed from...
KANJWANI, PAKISTAN -- From the busy and bucolic scene in this Punjab province village, it is hard to tell that Pakistan is in the throes of a national sugar crisis. Fields of tall green cane line the roads, and flatbed trucks...
November 28, 2009 Associated Press ISLAMABAD - The move came as President Asif Ali Zardari faced the expiration on Saturday of an amnesty protecting him and thousands of other bureaucrats and politicians from a host of...
By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV KABUL -- Debate inside the Obama administration on the troop increase has been intense, with Vice President Joe Biden cold to Gen. McChrystal's request and the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan warning that...
Unemployment for men is growing at a much faster pace than for women. By DAVID PAUL KUHN Last month the unemployment rate climbed above 10% for the first time in more than a quarter century. There was no major new...
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