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TOKYO - Japan is barring entry of all nonresident foreign nationals as a precaution against a new and potentially more contagious coronavirus variant that has spread across Britain. The Foreign Minist...

Beijing has urged residents not to leave the city during the Lunar New Year holiday in February, implementing new restrictions after several coronavirus infections last week. Two domestic cases were r...

BEIJING - Chinese regulators on Thursday announced an anti-monopoly investigation of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, stepping up the ruling Communist Party's efforts to control fast-growing tech indus...

WASHINGTON - A late-term manoeuvr by President Donald Trump to use lower drug prices paid overseas to limit some of Medicare's own costs suffered a legal setback Wednesday that appears likely to keep ...

DOVER, England - Gridlock at an English port kept thousands of truckers and travellers stranded Wednesday despite a deal with France to lift a two-day blockade imposed because of a new variant of the ...

Asian shares were mostly higher on Thursday after stocks eked out small gains on Wall Street following a mixed set of reports on the economy. Benchmarks rose in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney. Stocks fel...

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer spending fell 0.4% in November, the first decline since April, as Americans confronted a newly resurgent virus. The decline followed a 0.3% gain in October and even bigger i...

BOSTON - A Hindu activist is calling on luxury goods maker Louis Vuitton to pull a yoga mat made partly from cowhide leather, calling it "hugely insensitive." Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Soc...

OTTAWA - Canada and the United Kingdom have inked a temporary agreement that will head off an automatic increase in tariffs that was set to kick in when Britain leaves the European Union next week. De...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Seven train cars carrying crude oil derailed Tuesday and five caught fire, sending a large black plume of smoke into the sky north of Seattle close to the Canadian border, authorit...