President Obama and congressional Democrats -- out of options for another quick shot of stimulus spending to revive the sluggish economy -- are shifting toward a longer-term strategy that promises to tackle persistently high unemployment by engineering a renaissance in American manufacturing.
NEW DELHI -- Representatives of India's booming information technology industry said Friday that a border security bill passed by the U.S. Senate would promote protectionism and flout international trade practices.
EARNINGS American International Group reported Friday a $538 million loss in the second quarter due to charges related to selling assets to repay the federal government bailout it received during the financial meltdown.
SEOUL -- North Korea on Monday fired roughly 110 rounds of artillery into the sea off its west coast -- the latest fist-shaking response by leaders in Pyongyang to South Korea's massive military exercises.
To the north of this city, U.S. soldiers are in the throes of an arduous operation to clear insurgents from lush vineyards and pomegranate groves. To the east, other newly arrived U.S. units are preparing for another wave of clearing operations.
BANGKOK -- The Burmese government will hold the country's first elections in 20 years on Nov. 7 despite an increasingly vocal chorus of international criticism.
KABUL -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed a panel Saturday to investigate escalating ethnic violence that could hamper international military efforts to control a growing Taliban insurgency.
TOKYO -- Saying that "unification will happen," South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Sunday proposed a three-step plan to unify the Korean Peninsula and a new tax to help his country absorb the enormous costs of integration.
China is quickly modernizing its military and has set its sights on extending its influence deep into the Pacific and Indian oceans now that the military balance with its longtime nemesis, Taiwan, is tilting in its favor, the Defense Department reported Monday.
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations will convene a high-level donors meeting Thursday to prod frugal governments to contribute more to relief efforts in Pakistan, where massive flooding has affected nearly 20 million people but where aid contributions have paled in comparison with previous larg...
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...
TOKYO -- The sour state of relations on the Korean Peninsula has led to equally sour relations on the Internet, with North and South Korea now engaged in a micro-battle over micro-blogging.
PAKISTAN Missiles fired from a U.S. drone aircraft killed 13 militants and seven civilians in Pakistan's North Waziristan region Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said.
KABUL - In a sign of his growing frustration with U.S. policy, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that President Obama's timeline for withdrawing troops was aiding insurgents and also suggested that the United States must do more to force Pakistan to stop supporting the Taliban.
TOKYO - Former president Jimmy Carter won the release Friday of an American citizen detained by North Korea for illegal entry. Aijalon Gomes, sentenced earlier this year to eight years of hard labor, was granted amnesty and permitted to return to the United States, according to the State Departm...
The White House announced Monday it is hitting North Korea with sanctions aimed at providers of weapons, luxury goods and various illicit financial services that benefit the elite in the closed communist country.
BISHKEK, KYRGYZSTAN - Beset by mounting casualties on the battlefield and deepening disquiet at home over the United States' longest war, President Obama's Afghan policy now faces another big headache: the unraveling of central authority in Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian nation that hosts a U.S. ai...
KABUL - With Afghans clamoring to pull their cash from their nation's biggest bank, the United States risks a politically perilous decision: whether to step in to help shore up a wobbly bank critical not only to Afghanistan's economy but also to the battle against the Taliban.
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, President Hamid Karzai told Afghans on Thursday not to panic shortly after his brother, a major shareholder in the beleaguered Kabul Bank, called for intervention by the United States to head off a finan...
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 -- Gen. David H. Petraeus on Tuesday denounced plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Koran this weekend, saying the demonstration could "endanger troops" and damage the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan.
President Obama and congressional Democrats -- out of options for another quick shot of stimulus spending to revive the sluggish economy -- are shifting toward a longer-term strategy that promises to tackle persistently high unemployment by engineering a renaissance in American manufacturing.
NEW DELHI -- Representatives of India's booming information technology industry said Friday that a border security bill passed by the U.S. Senate would promote protectionism and flout international trade practices.
EARNINGS American International Group reported Friday a $538 million loss in the second quarter due to charges related to selling assets to repay the federal government bailout it received during the financial meltdown.
SEOUL -- North Korea on Monday fired roughly 110 rounds of artillery into the sea off its west coast -- the latest fist-shaking response by leaders in Pyongyang to South Korea's massive military exercises.
To the north of this city, U.S. soldiers are in the throes of an arduous operation to clear insurgents from lush vineyards and pomegranate groves. To the east, other newly arrived U.S. units are preparing for another wave of clearing operations.
BANGKOK -- The Burmese government will hold the country's first elections in 20 years on Nov. 7 despite an increasingly vocal chorus of international criticism.
KABUL -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai appointed a panel Saturday to investigate escalating ethnic violence that could hamper international military efforts to control a growing Taliban insurgency.
