The death toll from Egypt's wave of violence climbed to at least 525, fueling anger and deepening the political cleavages in the Arab world's most populous nation as pro-Morsi protesters planned more demonstrations.
President Barack Obama addressed the deteriorating situation in Egypt, condemning the military crackdown there and saying the U.S. will cancel its joint military exercise.
International reaction to the Egyptian military's crackdown was swift and strident, with Turkish leaders calling the move a "massacre" and regional diplomats saying the escalating violence is worrisome.
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The two communicated via encrypted Internet chat, although lawyers for both parties disapproved.
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A wave of car bombs in the Iraqi capital killed 33 people and wounded dozens, the latest attacks in a monthslong surge in violence.
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A car bomb ripped through a southern Beirut district on Thursday, the second bombing to target a stronghold of the Shiite party Hezbollah in just over a month, killing 14 people and wounding more than 200.
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In a constituency that has backed the winning side in Australian national polls since 1984, Labor is having a rough time persuading voters to overlook some of its less-popular policies.
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The euro zone's return to slow growth is likely to encourage European politicians to claim that the bloc's crisis is ending, but most economists say the recovery is too sluggish to overcome deep problems.
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Some in Kiev see tough new border checks as a tactic by the Kremlin to press Ukraine to join a Customs Union with Russia instead of the European Union.
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Low rates have been a significant motor of Asia's developing economies. Now, rising U.S. rates are making it harder for Asian issuers to raise funds cheaply.
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An expansion of China's value-added tax system that was meant to ease the burden on small companies is actually hurting some businesses.
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The U.S. government filed with the Irish High Court to extradite Eric Eoin Marques, a 28-year-old Irish-U.S. citizen, who the U.S. accuses of having been a major facilitator in distributing child pornographic images.
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Three Japanese Cabinet ministers visited the controversial Yasukuni Shrine dedicated to Japan's war dead, but Prime Minister Abe refrained from visiting.
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Indian officials said 18 crew members missing since a series of explosions aboard a submarine are feared dead, but the navy said divers were continuing to search the wreckage on Thursday.
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U.K. retail sales rose at their sharpest annual rate in more than two years in July as hot weather buoyed demand for summer products.
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A man New Delhi and Washington view as a terrorist mastermind led an Independence Day parade in the Pakistani city of Lahore, inflaming tensions between India and its neighbor.
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The Mexican government is trying to win over a skeptical public that thinks the reform goes too far, and skittish investors who think it doesn't go far enough.
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Indonesia's antigraft agency arrested the chief regulator of the country's oil-and-gas industry, a once-strong sector that has failed to ride the country's economic boom.
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With tensions high and expectations low, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met at an undisclosed location in search of an end to decades of conflict.
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China's Millionaire Population Grows Less Quickly
With the world's second-largest economy in the midst of an extended slowdown, growth in the population of Chinese millionaires has fallen to its slowest pace in five years, according to a new report.
The scenes of carnage on the streets of Cairo on Wednesday instantly prompted Syrians to draw comparisons to events in their own country, specifically the early days of the conflict when protests against President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011 gradually gave way to the present civil war. But local interpretations of what's happening in the Arab world's most populous nation reflected the deep divisions and polarization in Syria.
India's Record Since Independence
India, the world's largest democracy, celebrates 66 years of independence today. We asked a panel of political analysts, economists and foreign policy watchers to give their verdict on the nation since it gained freedom.
Fukushima Watch: Tepco Finally Gets an Official Cleanup Plan
Japan's nuclear regulator officially approved an plan that lays out everything from the broad road map that Fukushima Daiichi operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. is following to clean up and dismantle the crippled plant.
President Park Hits Out at Japan in Speech
South Korean President Park Geun-hye marked the country's day of independence from imperial Japan by hitting out at Tokyo's recent handling of its history of colonization and war.
A new paper argues that a country's debt should be restructured automatically once it reaches a certain level, by fashioning government bonds on convertible bank securities.
Indonesia’s Energy Watchdog Admits Taking Money
The former head of Indonesia’s upstream oil and gas watchdog has denied he is guilty of corruption but admitted to accepting money in comments to reporters after he was questioned by the country's antigraft agency.
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Researchers on Thursday announced the discovery of the olinguito mammal species. One of them had been hiding in plain sight at the Smithsonian-run National Zoo in Washington for a year in a case of mistaken identity.
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Strange brews are on tap in Japan this summer, as the country's biggest beer-makers experiment with novelty beers they hope will appeal to younger Japanese drinkers, particularly women.
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In today's pictures, a Jewish man protests near Jerusalem, a Labour Party leader gets egged in London, the death toll mounts in Egypt protests, and more.
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