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President Barack Obama will try to turn the page on two deeply etched chapters of U.S. wartime history with trips next week to Vietnam and Japan, including a visit to Hiroshima.

A country deeply divided by five years of political and economic turmoil appeared united in grief for the fathers, mothers, children and young crew who perished in the EgyptAir crash.

Throwing federal money at them won’t help either. What is needed? Holding tribal leaders accountable.

Teasing a certain sensitive authoritarian with the President Erdogan Offensive Poetry Competition.

Incredibly, even though much U.S. blood and treasure was sacrificed in Afghanistan, we won’t bomb the militants trying to take over the country.

Turkey’s parliament has voted to rescind immunity for a quarter of the nation’s lawmakers in a step that will likely destabilize this key North Atlantic Treaty Organization member and fuel the simmering Kurdish insurgency.

Czar Alexander I spent most of the 1814-15 Congress of Vienna chasing young women. Stephen Kotkin reviews “The Romanovs: 1613-1918” by Simon Sebag Montefiore.

In photos chosen by WSJ editors on Friday, protesters storm Baghdad’s Green Zone, children cool off during a heat wave in New Delhi, and more.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon resigned from what is widely considered Israel’s second-most powerful position, amid maneuvering by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to shore up his coalition.

As the Philippines ended its probe into money laundering linked to the hacking heist, Bangladesh kept up its demands for the money. Filipino officials said it could take a few months and they should be patient.

Police fired water cannons and rubber bullets Friday at protesters who scaled barriers to Baghdad’s heavily fortified International Zone, in the one of the largest demonstrations in the Iraqi capital in weeks.

Yum Brands Inc. authorized buying back up to $4.2 billion of its stock by year’s end as part of its pledge of returning $6.2 billion to shareholders ahead of the planned separation of its China business.

European interior ministers on Friday pressured Greece to speed up asylum procedures and send more Syrians back to Turkey.

While the European Union is considering granting visa-free travel to Turkey and other countries outside the bloc, it is also trying to tighten the rules should that happen.

Bill Gates unveils his summer list of recommended reads; time for a space (regulation) race; what China's recent robot play means for manufacturing; Silicon Valley, Onion edition.

A Chinese solar-technology company that enjoyed a meteoric rise on Hong Kong’s stock exchange before trading in its shares was abruptly halted last year said late Friday that three of its board members, including its founder, resigned.

Daniel Tully rose to become chairman and chief executive of Merrill Lynch. One key to his business success was an ability connect almost instantly with people of all sorts. He died May 10 at age 84.

After a 31-year career at United Airlines, Regina Fraser teamed up with a friend to travel the world and produce the “Grannies on Safari” television series. She died May 6 at age 73.

Chinese nationalists seemed forlorn on Friday as Taiwan inaugurated a new president, Tsai Ing-wen, whose political party nominally supports the self-ruled island’s independence from the mainland.