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MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's foreign ministry says the Syrian government has agreed to a conference on the country's future proposed by Russia and the United States.Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in televised remarks on Friday t ...more

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's oldest human rights group went to court on Friday to try to stop state prosecutors forcing it to register as a "foreign agent" under a law it says is intended by President Vladimir Putin to silence dissent. Memoria ...more

MOSCOW (AP) — A powerful earthquake on Friday hit Russia's Far East with tremors felt as far away as Moscow, about 7,000 kilometers (4,400 miles) west of the epicenter.Marina Kolomiyets, spokeswoman for Obninsk's seismic station of the Russian A ...more

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean police say a suicidal man jumping to his death killed a 5-year-old girl by falling on her as she walked with her parents outside the apartment building.A police official said the 39-year-old man died immedi ...more

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck off Russia's eastern coast on Friday, briefly prompting a tsunami scare but causing no casualties or substantial damage, Russian emergency authorities said. The epicentre of the quake was l ...more

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's All Nippon Airways, the launch customer for Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner," will resume commercial flights of the aircraft on Sunday, just over four months after the jets were grounded due to smoldering batteries.ANA said in a st ...more

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world's third highest mountain.The five disappeared Monday on Mount Kanchenjunga, and bad weather was preventing a rescue helicopter from reaching t ...more

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — An official says suspected rebels have ambushed and fatally shot three Indian army soldiers in the Indian portion of Kashmir.Lt. Col. Ankur Vashist, an army spokesman, says the soldiers were on their way to search Buchoo v ...more

BEIJING (AP) — A North Korean envoy, on the second day of his fence-mending visit to ally China, heeded Beijing's wishes by offering to renew nuclear disarmament talks, Chinese state media said.The accounts depicted Thursday's meeting between No ...more

By Susan Cornwell and Jane Sutton WASHINGTON/MIAMI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's pledge on Thursday to lift a ban on transfers of detainees to Yemen from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, addresses one of the core obstacles to cleari ...more