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North Korea sends leader’s special envoy to China

North Korea sends leader’s special envoy to China

High-ranking North Korean party and military official Choe Ryong Hae, second left, prepares to depart for China as a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at Pyongyang airport, North Korea Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The trip by Choe, a vice marshal who is director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army, is the highest-profile visit by a North Korean official to neighboring China this year and takes place at as Beijing is under pressure to rein in Pyongyang’s provocations. (AP Photo/ Kim Kwang Hyon)PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatched a high-profile official and close confidant to travel to China on Wednesday as a special envoy while Beijing is under pressure to rein in its belligerent neighbor.


North Korea sends leader’s special envoy to China

North Korea sends leader’s special envoy to China

North Korea sends leader’s special envoy to China

High-ranking North Korean party and military official Choe Ryong Hae, second left, prepares to depart for China as a special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, at Pyongyang airport, North Korea Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The trip by Choe, a vice marshal who is director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army, is the highest-profile visit by a North Korean official to neighboring China this year and takes place at as Beijing is under pressure to rein in Pyongyang’s provocations. (AP Photo/ Kim Kwang Hyon)PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dispatched a high-profile official and close confidant to travel to China on Wednesday as a special envoy while Beijing is under pressure to rein in its belligerent neighbor.


North Korea sends leader’s special envoy to China

Markets choppy ahead of Bernanke testimony

Markets choppy ahead of Bernanke testimony

A man under an umbrella walks past an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 20, 2013. Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to 15,352.84 as evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)LONDON (AP) — Markets were choppy Tuesday as investors remained cautious in the run-up to a much-anticipated statement from U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.


Markets choppy ahead of Bernanke testimony

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Markets choppy ahead of Bernanke testimony

Markets choppy ahead of Bernanke testimony

A man under an umbrella walks past an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 20, 2013. Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to 15,352.84 as evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)LONDON (AP) — Markets were choppy Tuesday as investors remained cautious in the run-up to a much-anticipated statement from U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.


Markets choppy ahead of Bernanke testimony

Markets choppy ahead of Bernanke testimony

Markets choppy ahead of Bernanke testimony

A man under an umbrella walks past an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo Monday, May 20, 2013. Japan's Nikkei 225 index jumped 1.4 percent to 15,352.84 as evidence of a steady economic recovery in the U.S. helped push Asian stock markets higher Monday. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)LONDON (AP) — Markets were choppy Tuesday as investors remained cautious in the run-up to a much-anticipated statement from U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke.


Markets choppy ahead of Bernanke testimony

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China’s Xi will meet Obama earlier than expected

China’s Xi will meet Obama earlier than expected

BEIJING (AP) — China’s new leader Xi Jinping will confer with President Barack Obama next month in California, months earlier than their expected first meeting, as both sides seek to stem a drift in relations, troubled by issues from cyberspying to North Korea.

China’s Xi will meet Obama earlier than expected

China sentences underground bank operator to death

China sentences underground bank operator to death

BEIJING (AP) — A businesswoman in southern China has been sentenced to death on charges of defrauding investors as the government tightens controls on informal financing that is widely used by entrepreneurs.

China sentences underground bank operator to death

Afghanistan: Suicide bomber hits council building

Afghanistan: Suicide bomber hits council building

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan officials say a suicide bomber has struck outside a provincial council building in the country’s north, causing casualties.

Afghanistan: Suicide bomber hits council building

Markets remain subdued after soft US data

Markets remain subdued after soft US data

A woman watches an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Asian stock markets were mixed Thursday following dour European economic data that dampened hopes of a recovery there anytime soon. However, losses were limited by another record session on Wall Street. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)LONDON (AP) — Financial markets were subdued Thursday despite encouraging growth figures out of Japan, as investors digested a mixed batch a U.S. economic data a day after Wall Street indexes hit record highs.


Markets remain subdued after soft US data

Teams dig for miners trapped in Indonesia cave-in

Teams dig for miners trapped in Indonesia cave-in

TIMIKA, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers using jacks, saws and wheelbarrows were digging through a caved-in mine tunnel Wednesday looking for about 25 workers trapped a day after the collapse at a giant gold and copper mine in Indonesia, the mine operator said.

Teams dig for miners trapped in Indonesia cave-in