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U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated the idea of replacing a visa program for foreign investors with a so-called "gold card" that...

Ukraine has agreed on the terms of a minerals deal with the United States and could sign it on Friday, a Ukrainian official said, in a move...

Nine people were killed and more than 700 houses were burned down in an attack in northern Central African Republic on Tuesday, local offici...

Twenty-one employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refus...

Eleven elderly residents of a nursing home in Toyama City suffered norovirus food poisoning, one of whom died after choking on vomit, it was...

At least three people died and six were injured on Tuesday after a collapse at a highway construction site in an area south of the South Kor...

A Chinese national political adviser has recommended lowering the legal age for marriage to 18 to boost fertility chances in the face of a d...

A federal judge on Monday denied a request by the Associated Press to restore full access for the news agency's journalists after President...

On February 14, a resident of Aichi Prefecture began to feel hot. In addition to a fever, the woman eventually developed a rash, cough, an...

A Japanese white-eye pecks at a plum flower at Kameido Shrine in Koto Ward, Tokyo, during the plum blossom festival on Monday.

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of fatally stabbing a 17-year-old male friend on a street on Monday morning.Th...

The Trump administration said Sunday that it was placing all but a fraction of staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development on...

Mina Tanaka scored a second straight brace as Japan delivered another impressive performance at the SheBelieves Cup, defeating Colombia 4-1...

A four-year-old boy and his father who is in his 30s are in a critical condition after falling into a river in Akiruno City, Tokyo, on Sunda...

On February 22, roughly a week after the date when humans show their affection for each other on Valentine’s Day, humans get to show their a...

German voters head to the polls on Sunday, with the conservatives the strong favorites after a campaign rocked by a far-right surge and the...

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have been given little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week, spa...

Japan's Mari Fukada competes during the women's World Cup slopestyle snowboard event in Calgary, Alberta, on Saturday.

Australia accused China on Saturday of failing to give satisfactory reasons for what it called inadequate notice of a live-fire drill in wat...

Before Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he would resign, his Liberal Party was headed for an electoral wipeout, but polls sh...

Gold medalists Riku Miura, left, and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan carry their national flag during the victory ceremony for the pairs free skatin...

Nissan shares surged 11 percent Friday after a report said a Japanese group including a former prime minister plans to ask U.S. electric veh...

For the last three years, China has repeatedly signaled a willingness to act as a peacemaker in the war in Ukraine.There were rounds of shu...

In an ice hockey grudge match of border rivals fueled by political tensions, "51st state" Canada defeated the United States 3-2 in overtime...

Billionaire Elon Musk appeared at a conservative gathering outside Washington on Thursday waving a chainsaw in the air, showing openness to...