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Taiwan's Defense Ministry said the sale was part of a deal reached last year.

Apple has hit back at claims made by the Department of Justice in a legal brief, saying “they have thrown decorum to the winds.”

The railcars, to be assembled in the city, are set to be delivered by 2024 and a prototype is slated for a 2019 release.

The world’s second-largest economy will release a slew of data points Saturday while top central bank officials will hold a press conference.

The Justice Department is expected to bring charges even though Iran does not have an extradition agreement with the U.S.

After signing a defense deal with the Philippines, Beijing has criticized Tokyo’s growing role in the contested South China Sea.

Bangladesh says the U.S. Fed wrongly released $100 million of the country's money to a bank account in the Philippines, money which was reportedly used to buy chips or pay for losses in Manila casinos.

China will restrict loans for down payments on houses in a bid to cap a dangerous and dramatic increase in urban home prices.

The deployment of bombers in the Diego Garcia atoll, south of the equator, comes at a time of growing regional tensions in the Asia-Pacific.

Pyongyang has clamped down on the use of telecommunication technologies to keep its citizens shut off from the outside world, an Amnesty International report said.

North Korea said it will nullify cross-border agreements on economic cooperation with the South and would not hesitate for a preemptive nuclear strike against the U.S.

Despite February's encouraging data, consumer inflation is expected to remain mild in coming months.

Cheung Chi Ping and Lui Por were among five Hong Kong booksellers who disappeared over the past six months and re-surfaced in police custody in mainland China.

Clinton and Sanders attacked each other’s previous votes as they sought the support of Hispanic voters ahead of Florida’s crucial primary.

A rebound in the price of oil, a source of recent anxiety, also calmed investor nerves.

Finding a Chinese buyer for Paramount Pictures isn’t just the best choice for entertainment conglomerate Viacom; it might be the only choice.

However, the iPhone maker still led the market there, while losing ground to Android phones in the U.S.

Supercell made close to $1 billion in revenue off the strength of three games last year.

Chinese media say the ban is unfair and could deal a “heavy blow­” to the world’s fourth-largest telecom equipment maker.

The cargo plane of Russian True Aviation crashed shortly after take-off from an airport in southeastern Bangladesh.

The Go world champion, Lee Sed-ol, has been beaten by artificial intelligence program AlphaGo, developed by Google's DeepMind.