TOKYO (Reuters) ? Japan’s Seven & I Holdings posted a rise in third-quarter profit on Friday as convenience store sales stayed strong, but rival Aeon Co’s earnings undershot strong year-earlier results, as retailers worry that profit growth could stall. Many Japanese retailers are poised to earn record profits in the current financial year after demand [...]

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TOKYO ? Japan and the United States agreed Wednesday to proceed with plans to transfer thousands of U.S. troops out of the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, leaving behind the stalled discussion about closing a major U.S. Marine base there. The transfer, a key to U.S. troop restructuring in the Pacific, has been in limbo [...]

PARIS ? Libya’s interim leaders held talks Friday with U.N. and other international officials to work out ways to stabilize the country and best use billions of dollars in unfrozen assets following the NATO-backed rebellion that ousted strongman Moammar Gadhafi. The private meeting in Paris came the day after Libya’s rebel-led acting government won broad [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan ? A spokesman for Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai says he has nominated a new central bank governor. Spokesman Hamid Elmi said Thursday that Noorullah Delawari has been nominated to head the central bank and that the appointment will be sent to parliament for approval. He did not say when parliament will discuss the [...]