Reuters - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will hold a bilateral meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum (APEC), Medvedev’s spokeswoman said…

Time.com - A mass movement sees itself as locked in a struggle for the soul of Pakistan, but declines to resort to violence as its enemies have done

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Reuters - The death toll in Haiti’s cholera epidemic climbed on Thursday to 800, according to an American medical expert, but U.S. health authorities said the risk of widespread transmission…

Reuters - Taiwan’s supreme court sentenced ex-president Chen Shui-bian, an anti-China firebrand whose rhetoric enraged Beijing and irked Washington, and his wife to 19 years in prison for bribery, a…

Reuters - The death toll in Haiti’s cholera epidemic climbed on Thursday, reaching 800, according to a U.S. medical expert who expressed concern about risk of transmission to the United…

Reuters - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that Israel’s security requirements would be fully taken into account in any peace deal with…

Reuters - Shi’ite Nuri al-Maliki was re-nominated as Iraqi prime minister on Thursday as fractious politicians ended an eight-month deadlock that raised fears of renewed sectarian warfare.

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Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he was “quite serious” about talks with the Palestinians as he met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton amid…

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Reuters - A bomb exploded next to the headquarters of Yemen’s ruling party in the south of the country Thursday, a local official said, but it was unclear who was…