WASHINGTON – Leaders of the world's industrial powers Friday turned to the private sector to help fight hunger and malnutrition for up to a billion people, with US President Barack Obama announcing a

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BEIJING – China Friday rejected a U.S. antidumping ruling against its solar power equipment with the Chinese manufacturers warning that possible higher tariffs might hurt efforts to promote clean ene

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WASHINGTON – Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called upon people in Saudi Arabia and Yemen to rise up against their rulers.

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PERTH – Workers at BHP Billiton's coking coal mines in Queensland's Bowen Basin will go on strike for a week from Thursday, after the company failed to win them over with its latest offer to resolve a

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WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama and new French President Francois Hollande are to meet at the White House on Friday, in a brief meeting scheduled ahead of the Group of Eight nations summit at C

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NEW YORK – Facebook made its Wall Street debut Friday with the world's number one online social networking giant in third biggest initial public offerings in the US stock history.

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WASHINGTON – The US has finally rewarded the Myanmar administration for its political reforms by deciding to lift economic sanctions against the former military ruled Southeast Asian nation and naming

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DAMASCUS – Syria on Friday saw escalated violence in some parts even as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon blamed the Al-Qaeda for two deadly suicide car bomb attacks that killed 55 people last week.

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HANOI – At least 34 people were killed when a crowded overnight bus plunged off a bridge and partially submerged into the Serepok river in Vietnam a Southeast Asian country known for one of the world

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BRUSSELS – The European Commission and the European Central Bank are drawing up contingency plans in the eventuality of Greece abandoning the euro, Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said in an intervi

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