FRANKFURT, July 3 Kyodo - The European Central Bank decided Thursday to raise its key interest rate to 4.25 percent per annum from 4.0 percent in a widely expected move to stem growing inflationary

BEIJING, July 3 Kyodo - China confirmed Thursday that it held talks with envoys from the Dalai Lama this week, but gave no indication that any breakthroughs or concessions were made in the negotiat

TOKYO, July 3 Kyodo - Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and the mother of a Japanese national abducted by North Korea appeared encouraged Thursday with remarks by U.S. President George W.

TOKYO, July 3 Kyodo - Leaders of five major emerging economies will meet next Tuesday in Sapporo to discuss climate change, the world economy and food security before meeting with Group of Eight le

MOSCOW, July 4 Kyodo - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has implied that two diplomatic documents issued in 1956 and 1993 would give ''positive impulses'' to help solve a long-standing territorial

MOSCOW, July 4 Kyodo - Following is the gist of remarks Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made to Kyodo News and NHK.

TOKYO, July 2 Kyodo - Japanese police are deploying about 20,000 officers around the venue of the Group of Eight summit in Hokkaido and also as many officers in Tokyo, the nation's capital, to brac

TOKYO, July 2 Kyodo - Japan's key Nikkei stock index on Wednesday marked its longest losing streak for 43 years as the specter of inflation risks causing a global recession struck hard at the Tokyo

TOKYO, July 2 Kyodo - Japan urged Israel and the Palestinian Authority to exercise self-restraint and press forward with peace talks as their ministers, together with Jordan's, reaffirmed political

TOKYO, July 2 Kyodo - The Ground Self-Defense Force's Middle Army headquarters in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, lost a USB flash memory device in February last year that contained data on a Japan-U.S.