French President Francois Hollande on Monday called on Washington to offer Paris and its European allies guarantees on the spying issue before continuing free trade negotiations.
McDonald's Israel has refused an offer to open a branch in a new mall being built in the settlement city of Ariel in the occupied West Bank, Israel's Calcalist economic daily reported on Wednesday.
A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman slammed an overview of Japan's Defense Ministry's white paper for 2013, urging the country to conduct some introspection and do more to facilitate regional peace and stability.
China's central bank on Monday told the country's over-extended lenders to manage liquidity risks to stabilize the monetary environment.
China's central bank said on Sunday that the country will continue to implement the prudent monetary policy while fine-tuning it at proper time.
Singapore shares closed 2.51 percent lower on Thursday, tracking overnight drop in U.S. equities after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke confirmed market fears that it may begin reducing its stimulus later this year as the economy improved.
Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Forces (MSDF) grounded its newly equipped P-1 patrol planes due to engine failure, local media reported Thursday, citing the country' s defense ministry.
China's central government has injected 750 million yuan (121.56 million U.S. dollars) in subsidies to boost low-carbon transport in the past two years.
Russia must take into account the possibility of a preemptive nuclear strike against its interests and include it in its defense strategy, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.
The United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea on Wednesday called for "meaningful" steps on denuclearization by Pyongyang in exchange for better ties with them.
For decades, Japan has been aspiring to become a "normal country" politically. But Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is apparently moving the country toward the opposite direction.
Two phone and internet surveillance programs run by the U.S. National Security Agency ( NSA) have helped disrupt more than 50 potential terrorist attacks against the United States and its allies, said the agency's chief on Tuesday, in another attempt to defend the programs that have been under fire.
The U.S. State Department on Monday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to take "credible" steps toward concrete denuclearization before bilateral talks can take place.
Fortescue Metals Group's (FMG) low performance-price ratio and 12 billion U.S. dollar debt has sounded alarm bells for some Chinese investors recently.
The White House on Sunday stated its desire to have "credible" negotiations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), but demanded steps by the Asian nation to show its readiness to abide by its obligations.
The IMF on Friday lowered its forecast of U.S. economic growth to 2. 7 percent next year, 0.3 percentage point lower than its April prediction against the backdrop of the government spending cuts.
The Australian government launched a monitoring program engaging a host of volunteers to help protect the iconic Great Barrier Reef, Environment Minister Tony Burke announced on Monday.
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