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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he will not raise long-simmering maritime disputes with China at a meeting of Southeast Asian nations in Laos next month, preferring to talk quietly with Chinese officials.

Efforts by Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi this week to bolster ties with her country's dominant northern neighbor China may hinge on whether she can resolve the fate of a massive, Chinese-funded dam project blocked by overwhelming local opposition.

Japan posted a trade surplus of 513.5 billion yen ($5.1 billion) in July, though exports sank 14 percent from a year earlier as the yen surged against the dollar, the government reported Thursday.

A golf tournament yanked from a Florida resort owned by Donald Trump has unveiled its new home in Mexico.

The young Syrian activist was beaten, prevented from going to the toilet and saw her cellmates taken for rounds of whipping when she was held for more than a month in several government detention facilities.

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Iran is preparing to indict a detained U.S. man, accusing him of acting against the country’s national security interests, a source familiar with the case has told The Foreign Desk.

Good leadership skills won't be enough for Bolivian officers seeking promotion to the rank of captain in any branch of the South American nation's military.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Fiona has formed over the central Atlantic, becoming the season's sixth named storm.

Nestled among vegetables, plastic kettles and hand-dyed fabric in market stalls are the signs of a feminist revolution: Piles of poorly printed books by women that advocate forcefully against conservative Muslim traditions such as child marriage and quick divorce.

Haitian electoral authorities have publicly released a $55 million budget to organize a redo of the presidential election.

More than 500 passengers were being evacuated on Wednesday from a ferry that caught fire about a mile off Puerto Rico's north coast.

Protests in Mali's capital against the arrest of a popular activist radio host have turned violent, leaving at least three people dead and several injured.

Male officials are dictating what women can wear on French beaches — and people across a wide swath of French society say that's a good thing.

German police on Wednesday searched the home of a 27-year-old man on suspicion he had explosives stored there but found only firecrackers and no indications he was planning an attack, they said.

Local authorities say a regional train has hit a tree that had fallen on the tracks in a rural area in southeast France, seriously injuring one person.

Hundreds of people have marched in the eastern Congo city of Beni to protest inaction against rebels who are suspected of killing at least 50 people in a weekend attack.

A Czech company is offering bus trips to Auschwitz and elsewhere with the images of Holocaust victims and the Nazi death camp on its exterior.

French President Francois Hollande is visiting Pope Francis for a special audience after a spate of Islamic extremist attacks over recent months left more than 200 dead, including an elderly French priest.

South Africa's main opposition party says it has agreed with several smaller parties to build governing coalitions in some municipalities following elections in which the ruling African National Congress suffered its worst setback since taking power.