Obama, in China for G20 summit, expects 'candid' talks with Xi

South Korea's president calls on Russia, others, to pressure Pyongyang over nuclear program


VLADIVOSTOK, Russia South Korean President Park Geun-hye called on Russia and other major global players on Saturday to increase pressure on North Korea to abandon its nuclear program which could open the road for cooperation with Pyongyang.




Defiant Merkel says refugees not taking away benefits from Germans


BERLIN German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose conservative party faces possible defeat in an election in her home state on Sunday, rejected charges by anti-immigrant critics that her government was spending less on Germans due to a large influx of refugees.




Uzbekistan prepares to bury veteran leader Karimov


ALMATY Thousands of Uzbeks, many weeping, lined the streets of their capital on Saturday to watch the funeral cortege of President Islam Karimov, whose death leaves a power vacuum in a nation that serves as a bulwark against militant Islam in Central Asia.