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Americans back guns, even after shootings: poll

Aug 16, 2012 (AFP)

An overwhelming majority of Americans, particularly whites, are adamant about the constitutional right to bear arms, a poll showed this week amid a rash of shoo...

Pussy Riot: Radical punks with message for Putin

Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)

They studied philosophy in college and read poet Osip Mandelstam -- a Stalin critic who died of typhoid in a labour camp in 1938 -- for inspiration. Now the thr...

Outside View: How much is enough? - Part 1

Aug 15, 2012 (UPI)

During the Kennedy-Johnson-McNamara years of the Cold War, the ritualized question over national defense was "how much is enough?" The "how much" referred to wh...

History, political change behind NE Asia spats: analysts

Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)

Nearly seven decades after Japan surrendered, leadership changes in Northeast Asia are fuelling territorial disputes that are themselves the legacy of a war the...

Tensions high as Japan ministers visit war shrine

Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)

Two Japanese cabinet ministers visited a shrine honouring war criminals Wednesday on the anniversary of Tokyo's 1945 surrender, a move set to inflame feelings a...

US report warns of Japan 'drift,' urges defense boost

Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)

A group of former US policymakers called Wednesday for Japan to expand the scope of defense cooperation with Washington, saying that the two nations' alliance n...

US says new Egypt defense minister wants close ties

Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)

The new defense minister appointed by Egypt's Islamist president has pledged to uphold the strong military ties between Cairo and Washington, Pentagon chief Leo...

Outside View: Obama Doctrine

Aug 14, 2012 (UPI)

Half a century ago this October, for almost two weeks, the world dangerously slid toward war as the United States and U.S.S.R. played a nuclear chess match. The...

Commentary: Dysinformatsia redux

Aug 13, 2012 (UPI)

We are living in an age of fakery and fiction alongside reality and truth, concludes Huffington Post Books Editor Andrew Losowsky. The new Transmedia Project, h...

Inflatables and politics as China's leaders hit the beach

Aug 12, 2012 (AFP)

As holidaymakers crowded beaches at the Chinese seaside resort of Beidaihe, a heightened security presence was the only sign that China's most senior leaders ha...

Bo's wife blames breakdown for Briton's murder

Aug 11, 2012 (AFP)

The wife of Chinese politician Bo Xilai, whose downfall rocked the ruling elite, has admitted murdering a British businessman and blamed her actions on a mental...

Brazil security maneuvers test borders

Aug 09, 2012 (UPI)

Brazil is testing border security with large-scale military maneuvers along borders with Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay amid increased concerns over i...

Murder trial for wife of China's Bo Xilai opens

Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)

One of China's highest-profile trials in decades opens on Thursday when the wife of the disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai appears in court charged with murd...

Australia urges deeper US-China ties

Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)

Australia said Thursday it was "optimistic" about the emergence of China as a world power but said strong and peaceful ties between Beijing and the United State...

China says Gu Kailai didn't contest murder charge

Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)

The wife of a former Chinese leader at the centre of a scandal that has rocked the Communist party did not deny murder during her one-day trial, which ended Thu...

Russia fears Chinese immigration threatens its Far East

Aug 09, 2012 (AFP)

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev raised alarm Thursday over immigration to the remote Far East from giant neighbours such as China, saying the region risk...

China recognition needed in Asia-Pacific

Aug 08, 2012 (UPI)

Peace in Asia-Pacific will come only when the United States and its allies recognize China as a "great power," former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating sai...

Politics at heart of China murder trial

Aug 07, 2012 (AFP)

The murder trial of former Chinese leader Bo Xilai's wife which opens Thursday goes to the heart of a corruption scandal that has rocked the Communist party ahe...

China's Gu to be found guilty but spared execution

Aug 06, 2012 (AFP)

The wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai is all but certain to be found guilty of murder when she goes on trial Thursday, but will likely escape execut...

China leaders convene for key summer talks

Aug 05, 2012 (AFP)

China's leaders including the man expected to be the next president have begun their summer meetings at a seaside resort, state press said Sunday, ahead of a on...