MANILA, Philippines — Despite U.S. and Asian calls for self-restraint and new impetus for the resolution of territorial disputes involving China, a high-profile Asian security summit...
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s elite security forces loyal to the country’s embattled prime minister deployed in force in the streets of Baghdad on Monday as Nouri al-Maliki...
ROMULUS, Mich.—A 78-year-old Florida woman tried to fly on an international trip to the Philippines from Detroit Metropolitan Airport with almost $41,000 in cash hidden inside her girdle,...
TORONTO—On Monday experts from around the world will converge, by telephone, to try to chart a path through a mine field of ethical issues related to...
ISTANBUL, Turkey—Turkey chooses Sunday among three candidates for president, a post that until now has been largely ceremonial. Turkey’s 12th president will become the first to...
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is in Myanmar seeking to calm tensions in the South China Sea between China and its smaller neighbours. Amid...
HANOI, Vietnam—U.S. Sen. John McCain said Friday in Vietnam that it’s time for the United States to ease the ban on selling lethal arms to the...
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and top diplomats from Europe and Asia are meeting to discuss regional security issues this weekend. The meeting opened...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—They were leaders of Cambodia’s infamous Khmer Rouge, the fanatical communist movement behind a 1970s reign of terror that transformed this entire Southeast Asian nation into...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Revelations about the National Security Agency’s electronic eavesdropping capabilities have sparked anger in Germany and a boom in encryption services that make...