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TOKYO - President Barack Obama says he wants to visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki sometime during his presidency but won't have time during this week's trip to Japan...
Asian stocks nudged higher on Tuesday on hopes continued stimulus will support economic recovery, while the dollar hovered near a 15-month low on expectations U.S. rates will remain near zero.
The French president's special envoy on North Korea held talks Tuesday with the country's foreign minister during a visit to Pyongyang to explore the possibility of establishing diplomatic ties with the communist regime.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday that Washington will give Afghan President Hamid Karzai a set of measures to root out the corruption undermining allied efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd will unveil long-awaited draft legislation on financial regulation reform on Tuesday, his office said on Monday.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said the current plan for relocating an American military base within Okinawa is in the best interests of Japan.
US President Barack Obama on Monday made a surprise video address to celebrations in Germany marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Chinese President Hu Jintao arrives in Malaysia on Tuesday, in his first round of regional diplomacy before heading to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in neighbouring Singapore.
Fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in Cambodia to start work as a government economic adviser Tuesday, fuelling tensions after deadly clashes between the two countries.
President Barack Obama will hold rare closed-door talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, underscoring tensions between the two close allies as US efforts to revive Middle East peace talks flounder.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Joshua Gotbaum , an investment banker and former official in the Bill Clinton administration, was tapped by President Barack Obama to head the deficit-ridden Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
A North Korean patrol boat was badly damaged as the navies of North and South Korea exchanged fire on Tuesday, officials said, heightening tensions in one of the world's most sensitive military flashpoints.
APEC finance ministers will reject any premature moves towards fiscal tightening and advocate a steady retreat from stimulus measures, according to a draft communique obtained by AFP Tuesday.
President Barack Obama has paid tribute to the fall 20 years ago of the Berlin Wall in a video message to the main anniversary event.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- The White House said Monday a report that President Barack Obama has decided to send a large number of troops to Afghanistan "is absolutely false."
As a White House source told me Monday night, "The President hasn't received the four options on Afghanistan yet."
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