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President Barack Obama plans to curtail a plan costing as much as $21.1 billion to expand the U.S. military’s presence in Guam and instead will rotate some of the Marines through the Asia-Pacific region, people familiar with the matter said.

A Seattle University study has estimated that in 2010 the victims of the disease numbered about 47% more than shown by the data published by the World Health Organization. Funded by Bill Gates, the new study is based on statistical models that...

HAGATNA, Guam — President Obama plans to shrink the Guam buildup to only 4,500 Marines, then rotate the other 4,000 through the Asia-Pacific region, according to a news service report.

Philippine carrier Cebu Pacific, which now flies around Asia, is planning a step that could vastly increase its customer base—but that has tripped up other budget carriers in the past: Running long-haul flights.

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The Obama administration is preparing to scale back a stalled U.S. military plan to relocate Marine forces from Japan to Guam by rotating thousands of Marines through foreign bases in Australia and the Philippines instead, according to a Bloomberg...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine military said it killed three of Southeast Asia’s most-wanted terrorist leaders in a U.S.-backed airstrike that significantly weakens an al-Qaida-linked group that had used islands in the southern...

Growing up fatherless on a peach farm in California, Larry Hillblom told friends he wanted to be like Howard Hughes some day. He came closer than anyone could have expected: Hillblom went into business, amassed a huge fortune, acquired an airline,...