China, S. Korea take offense
TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe paid his respects at a shrine honoring Japan’s war dead in an unexpected visit today that drew sharp rebuke...
BEIJING — China’s leaders bowed three times before a statue of Mao Zedong on the 120th anniversary of his birth today in carefully controlled celebrations that also soug...
Radiation wasn't used as poison
MOSCOW — A Russian probe into the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has found no trace of radioactive poisoning, the chief of the ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Russian investigators have dropped charges against all but one of the 30 crew of a Greenpeace ship, who were accused of hooliganism following a ...
SEOUL, South Korea — The children call him “uncle,” but he’s more of a mom and dad rolled in one. From one child that he began caring for in 2006, Kim Tae-hoon’s brood h...
Pope Francis faces backlash
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis may have been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, but he has come under scathing criticism from a growing nu...
It will provide a view in 3-D
BERLIN — The European Space Agency launched its star-surveying satellite Gaia into space today, hoping to produce the most accurate three-di...
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych on Thursday suggested that Western governments should not interfere in the country’s internal affairs, as he appear...
CAIRO — An Egyptian court today acquitted former leader Hosni Mubarak’s two sons and his last prime minister of corruption charges, a verdict announced just hours after ...
Trial, execution occur swiftly
SEOUL, South Korea — Jang Song Thaek rose from a municipal bureaucrat to North Korea’s No. 2 official — behind only leader Kim Jong Un.
His...
