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An Air Self-Defense Force training aircraft crashed after taking off from a military base in central Japan, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimas...

Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Wednesday urged the country's anti-counterfeit task force to devise new ways to fight fake goods...

Nearly half a century after a young California woman was strangled to death, officials say a thumbprint on a carton of cigarettes has led to...

Jose Mujica, a one-time guerrilla and later president of Uruguay who drove a beat-up VW Beetle and enacted progressive reforms that carried...

Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa attends a press conference to announce 2024 fiscal year financial results in Yokohama on Tuesday. He said Nissan wi...

A court in Paris on Tuesday found actor Gerard Depardieu guilty of sexually assaulting two women on a film set in 2021 and handed him an 18-...

The U.N. aviation agency blamed Russia Monday for the downing of a Malaysian jetliner over Ukraine in 2014, leading to the deaths of 298 peo...

An attack by a jihadi group in northern Burkina Faso killed more than 100 people, mostly soldiers, an aid worker and local residents said Mo...

Hiromasa Nakano, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, left, and Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, make an administrative insp...

The United States and China said on Monday they have agreed a deal to slash reciprocal tariffs for now as the world's two biggest economies...

Asian shares advanced Monday after two days of trade talks between China and the U.S. made what the U.S. side said was “ substantial progres...

The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, which has been in conflict with the Turkish state for more than four decades, has decided...

Preliminary results in Albania’s parliamentary election on Monday showed the ruling Socialist Party ahead, with voters supporting the countr...

Millions of Filipinos headed to the polls Monday in a mid-term election widely seen as a referendum on the explosive feud between President...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a new salvo of measures to toughen up Britain's migration system on Sunday, saying many immigr...

Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander, a 21-year-old soldier in the Israeli Army who was born and raised in New Jersey, will soon be relea...

An overcrowded bus carrying dozens of Buddhist pilgrims plummeted into a precipice in Sri Lanka on Sunday, killing at least 21 and injuring...

Three Chinese nationals were arrested for operating a poker gambling den in Tokyo, police said, suspecting they made over 60 million yen in...

Hamas's armed wing released a video on Saturday showing two Israeli hostages alive in the Gaza Strip, with one of the two men calling to end...

Shohei Ohtani hit a three-run homer to cap a six-run ninth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied for a wild 14-11 victory over the Ariz...

Pakistan said it called a meeting on Saturday of the top body that oversees its nuclear arsenal after it launched a military operation again...

Hideki Matsuyama, of Japan, hits on the first hole during the second round of the Truist Championship golf tournament at the Philadelphia Cr...

Shares were mixed in Asia on Friday as investors pinned their hopes on weekend trade talks between China and the U.S.U.S. futures and oil p...

Pakistan's armed forces launched "multiple attacks" using drones and other munitions along India's entire western border on Thursday night a...

Field hockey player Tom Craig was recalled to the Australian national team on Friday after serving a six-month suspension for trying to buy...