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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, a childhood polio survivor, said any of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees seeking confirmati...

Hundreds of Korean and Japanese people hold placards during a rally for the impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in front of...

Thousands took to the streets of South Korea's capital Saturday in rival rallies for and against President Yoon Suk Yeol, hours ahead of an...

The New Zealand government said on Friday it will pass legislation next year to prevent entities that "do not share the country’s values" fr...

Juan Soto put on a New York Mets jersey and cap for the first time Thursday after his record $765 million, 15-year contract was finalized an...

Shares advanced Thursday in Asia after Wall Street resumed its upward climb, as an update on inflation appeared to clear the way for more he...

Manchester City's crisis continued with a 2-0 defeat away to Juventus in the Champions League on Wednesday, while Pep Guardiola's old club B...

Vandals torched a car and sprayed graffiti with anti-Israel slogans including an apparently misspelled “Kill Israiel" on Wednesday in a Sydn...

Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged with murder in the shooting of a top UnitedHealth executive, briefly struggled with officers and angrily...

Prosecutors are urging a judge not to throw out President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money criminal conviction but suggesting a willingness t...

Artist Takashi Murakami poses in front his work named "Gion Sairei-zu," during a photo call ahead of his new exhibition, Japanese Art Histor...

Air passenger numbers are forecast to top five billion for the first time next year and the sector's revenues will break the trillion-dollar...

Like Satsuki Morita, many university students are closely watching political negotiations that could raise Japan's tax-free threshold for an...

Taiwan's defense ministry reported a surge of Chinese military activity around the island on Tuesday, including 47 military aircraft, with T...

An Australian warship has test-fired a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile, officials said Tuesday, hailing a "major milestone" in the country's de...

Terumi Tanaka, a survivor of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan and the representative of an organization that won this year's Nobel Peace Pr...

OpenAI on Monday released the latest version of its highly anticipated Sora video generator to the public, stepping into an increasingly cro...

Australia on Monday launched an antisemitism task force following an arson attack at a synagogue in Melbourne which police say was likely te...

Jalen Hurts threw for two touchdowns and ran for another as Philadelphia outlasted Carolina on Sunday and clinched an NFL playoff berth whil...

At least 110 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti's Cite Soleil slum when a gang leader targeted elderly people he suspected of caus...

Don’t listen to Enzo Maresca. Chelsea really is a Premier League challenger this season.In a wild London derby, Chelsea conceded twice in t...

Dutch authorities said on Sunday they believed an explosion and inferno that caused an apartment block to collapse killing at least five peo...

Ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad fled to Moscow and received asylum from his longtime ally, Russian media said Sunday, hours after a stunni...

A 50-year-old unemployed man was found dead and his father unconscious at their home in Yasu City, Shiga Prefecture, on Saturday.Police bel...

Last month, administrators announced that Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward would not be holding any New Year’s Eve countdown events this year. It’s part...