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Reuters - The leaders of China and Japan sought to ease months of tensions on Saturday, while Beijing gave Japan reassurances over worries about a drying-up of rare earth exports…

Reuters - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao were due to meet Friday, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said, a step expected to ease tension between Asia’s…

Reuters - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will meet on Friday, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK said, a step expected to ease tensions between Asia’s biggest…

Reuters - Chinese and Japanese foreign ministers met on Friday on the sidelines of a regional summit, a step that could pave the way for fence-mending, one-on-one talks between the…

AP - The leaders of several Latin American nations on the front lines of the battle against drugs said Tuesday that a California ballot measure to legalize marijuana would send…

AP - The Chinese and Japanese prime ministers held an impromptu meeting in a hallway at a conference in Europe, in the highest-level contact between the countries since a bitter…

AP - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan on the sidelines of a meeting in Europe in the highest-level contact between the countries since a bitter…

Reuters - The son of Bosnia’s wartime Muslim leader was set to become one of its three presidents, election results showed on Monday, and analysts said he seemed ready to…

AP - The youngest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was elected to his first prominent posts in the ruling Workers’ Party, state media said early Wednesday, putting…

AP - Cambodia’s genocide tribunal Thursday indicted the four top surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime blamed for 1.7 million deaths in the 1970s, paving the way for the…