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Japanese shares rose for the third straight session Thursday, lifted by further gains on Wall Street and a continuing slide in oil prices.
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Chinese state media say 22 rescuers who helped victims of May’s devastating earthquake have been chosen as torchbearers for the Olympic torch.
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A suspected Islamic militant threw a hand grenade at a group of migrant laborers in Indian Kashmir, killing a woman and her four children Thursday in one of two attacks...
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Business travel appears to be the latest victim of China’s ever-tightening security crackdown before the Beijing Olympics.
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The Taliban have created a sophisticated media network to undermine support for the Afghan government, sending threats by text message and spreading the militia’s...
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Sri Lankan forces battled rebel gunmen deep inside the nation’s northern jungles Thursday, killing 25 guerrilla fighters and seizing new territory, the military...
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AP, Tokyo
Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.
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Three aftershocks jolted parts of China on Thursday, the official Xinhua News Agency said, killing one person and injuring more than 10.
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The Cambodian government said Thursday it will not back down from a demand that hundreds of Thai troops leave disputed land near a historic temple, contending that its...
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AP, Beijing
A Chinese news agency says an aftershock has jolted parts of China, injuring at least five people.
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AP, Seoul
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor said Thursday that its second-quarter net profit declined nearly 11 percent despite higher sales, and vowed to fight high oil prices...
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Oil prices steadied in Asian trading Thursday after shedding nearly $4 a barrel in the previous session on concerns that high fuel prices are dampening demand in the...
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Canon Inc. said Thursday its second-quarter profit fell 13 percent from a year ago as a stronger yen chipped away at the value of booming overseas sales of color...
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North Korea’s reclusive communist regime, long seen as a nuclear threat to the region, signed a nonaggression pact Thursday with Southeast Asia, in a largely...
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Kidnappers have freed unharmed a retired U.S. Marine’s 19-year-old daughter a day after snatching her, police said Thursday.
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A Pakistani official says an army helicopter has saved two Italian climbers from one of the world’s highest mountains.
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Concrete pilings designed to prevent an invasion no longer dot this tiny Taiwanese islet’s shoreline. A formidable marine garrison also has vanished, replaced by...
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Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.
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Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.
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A powerful earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast early Thursday, injuring at least 91 people, triggering landslides and cutting power to thousands of...
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Japan’s weather agency says a strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck off the northern Japanese coast.
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Toyota sold more than 4.8 million vehicles worldwide in the first half, up 2 percent from the same period a year earlier, the Japanese automaker said Wednesday.
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Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. said Wednesday it plans to acquire U.S.-based property and casualty insurer Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp. for...
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A strong earthquake with a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the northern Japanese coast Monday, but there was no danger of a tsunami, the nation’s weather...
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Japan’s weather agency says a strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.1 struck off the northern Japanese coast. There were no immediate reports of...
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Japanese shares fell Friday as sentiment dampened on fresh worries over a slump in the U.S. economy following worse-than-expected earnings results from American...
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A Japanese court found Mitsubishi Motors and its three former executives guilty Tuesday of falsifying a report to the government in a fatal accident suspected of being...
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A Japanese court on Tuesday found Mitsubishi Motors and three former executives executives guilty of falsifying a report to the government in a fatal accident suspected...
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An assailant threw a homemade firebomb into the U.S. consulate compound on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, home to most of the American troops based in Japan,...
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Japan will conduct its first test-firing of a land-to-air missile interceptor in the United States in September to ensure that a missile shield for the Japanese capital...
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Rocky Aoki, who sought to offer diners a sense of magic and entertainment at his Japanese steakhouse Benihana, has died after complications from cancer. He was 69.
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Industrial and financial conglomerate General Electric Co. said Friday its profit fell 6 percent in the second quarter, and has agreed to sell its Japanese consumer...
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Industrial and financial conglomerate General Electric Co. said Friday its profit fell 6 percent in the second quarter, and has agreed to sell its Japanese consumer...
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Japan’s Shinsei Bank Ltd. said Friday it would acquire the Japanese consumer finance arm of General Electric Co. for $5.4 billion in a bid to expand its own...
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Toyota Motor Corp. will start producing the hybrid Prius in the U.S. for the first time as the Japanese automaker adjusts its U.S. manufacturing operations to meet...
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A small amount of uranium powder escaped from a machine at a Japanese nuclear fuel plant near Tokyo, slightly exposing a worker to radiation, the plant operator said...
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