Abe to push security reform, may compromise economic change

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will this week push ahead with plans to loosen the rules governing the military, although analysts warn that this may squander the political capital needed to pursue tough economic reforms.

A Climate-Modeling Strategy That Won’t Hurt the Climate

It is perhaps the most daunting challenge facing experts in both the fields of climate and computer science — creating a supercomputer that can accurately model the future of the planet in a set of equations and how the forces of climate change will affect it.

Once untouchable, Egypt's Sisi faces media attacks

Egyptian newspapers are publishing what would have been unthinkable when then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi removed the Muslim Brotherhood from power in 2013: suggestions that he is fallible.

US concerned China behind cyberattack on US sites

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States voiced concern Friday over a report that China manipulated international Internet traffic intended for a major Chinese Web service company and used it for a cyberattack on U.S. sites.

Japan ruling party executive says more BOJ easing not needed for now

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan does not need to ease monetary policy further for the time being since a delay in hitting its inflation target is mostly due to slumping oil prices, the policy chief of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party said on Friday.

U.S. job growth recovers, keeps 2015 Fed rate rise in play

U.S. job growth rebounded last month and the unemployment rate dropped to a near seven-year low of 5.4 percent, suggesting underlying strength in the economy at the start of the second quarter that could keep alive prospects for a Federal Reserve rate hike later this year.

Russia, China sign raft of deals in Moscow

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian and Chinese leaders have signed a plethora of deals in Moscow, including billions in infrastructure loans for Russia.