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Islamist militants attacked a gas production field in southern Algeria on Wednesday, kidnapping at least seven foreigners and killing a…

Japan scrambled fighter jets on Thursday after a Chinese government plane entered what Japan considers its airspace over disputed islets…

TOKYO/BEIJING — China sent its first aircraft carrier into formal service on Tuesday amid a tense maritime dispute with Japan…

Four Chinese ships briefly entered what Japan considers its territorial waters near disputed islands in the East China Sea on…

BEIJING/TOKYO — Anti-Japan protests reignited across China on Tuesday, the sensitive anniversary marking Tokyo's occupation of its giant neighbor, escalating…

Major Japanese firms have shut factories in China and urged expatriate workers Monday to stay indoors ahead of what could…

  China has dispatched two patrol ships to "assert its sovereignty" over islands at the centre of a row with…

REUTERS — Anti-Japanese protests rocked Chinese cities on Sunday after nationalists from Japan landed on an East China Sea island…

PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea's widely condemned rocket splintered into pieces over the Yellow Sea soon after takeoff Friday,…

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed to visiting former Japanese premier Yukio Hatoyama on Sunday that Tehran opposes nuclear weapons, his…