Simon Denyer

Journals showing the dangers encountered by Japan’s Self-Defense Forces on duty in Sudan and Iraq? Initially said to have been shredded, although they were later rediscovered. Important papers relating to a school scandal that threatened to bring…

BEIJING — China announced Tuesday it will establish a new agency to coordinate its foreign aid program as part of an effort to project its global influence more effectively. The establishment of a new international development cooperation agency came…

BEIJING — China said Tuesday that it plans to extend its global military reach to safeguard its economic interests, while defending its territorial claims at sea against “provocative actions” by neighbors and “meddling” by the United States. A policy…

BEIJING — The United States and China said Wednesday that they are determined to avoid conflict and maintain peace with each other, but deep differences over maritime security and mutual recriminations over cyber-espionage continued to loom as…

TRIPOLI, Libya — At a huge weapons depot in the Libyan capital, flatbed trucks line up to be piled high with land mines, rockets and shells before being driven off into the western mountains. About a month after rebels captured Tripoli and forced…

TRIPOLI, Libya — He says he was tortured by the CIA and accused of links with al-Qaeda, but Tripoli’s new military commander, Abdulhakim Belhadj, insists that he is no extremist or enemy of the United States. “I have no intention of revenge,” he said…

WASHINGTON/ZURICH (Reuters) - U.S. and Manhattan prosecutors detailed on Wednesday a “decades-long scheme” by Credit Suisse to hide thousands of transactions on behalf of clients in Iran, Sudan, Libya and other nations, and said the Swiss bank had…

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The economic crisis is pushing the world’s hungriest people to the wall, but a fraction of the cost of financial rescue packages could make a huge difference, the head of the U.N.’s World Food Program said Tuesday. “I don’t…

BEIJING (Reuters) - Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele completed the long distance double and Kenya won two more golds as Africa dominated the last evening of Olympics sport in the Bird’s Nest on Saturday. There were rare sour notes, though, when a Ukrainian…

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush issued one of his strongest rebukes to China on human rights on Wednesday, two days before Beijing hosts an Olympics it hopes will showcase its modern face and economic might. Euphoric crowds chanted…