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TOP STORIES ----------- SEOUL - North Korea said on Monday it would reopen its border with the South, ending a self-imposed 9-month blockade on a vital source of cash for its leaders as their ravaged...

TOP STORIES ----------- TOKYO - Japan's economy returned to growth in the second quarter, pulling out of its longest recession since World War Two, but analysts warned of a rocky road ahead as the nascent...

TOP STORIES ----------- SEOUL - North Korea, whose relations with South Korea have turned increasingly bitter, said on Monday it had agreed to reopen its border with its neighbour and allow tourism and family reunions...

TOP STORIES ----------- TALOQAN, Afghanistan - Supporters of Afghanistan's main presidential candidates came out in their thousands on Sunday in a last burst of campaign excitement with days to go before the ballot. - -...

TOP STORIES ----------- KABUL - The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide car bomb that killed seven people on Saturday in the heart of the Afghan capital's most secure district five days before an election...

TOP STORIES ----------- BEIJING - Australia said on Wednesday that charges against four staff from Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto appeared to have been downgraded after China formally arrested the men but left aside accusations they...

TOP STORIES ----------- PUL-E-ALAM, Afghanistan - Taliban bombers, some disguised as women with suicide vests hidden under their burqas, stormed government buildings near Kabul on Monday in a brazen attack just 10 days before a...

TOP STORIES ----------- MOSUL, Iraq - Bombs ripped through Shi'ite areas of Baghdad and northern Iraq on Monday, killing 33 people and raising fears of a resurgence in sectarian violence just as politicians hope to...

TOP STORIES ----------- TEHRAN - Iran's supreme leader endorsed the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a ceremony boycotted by leading moderates in protest at a disputed poll that plunged Iran into its worst crisis since...