Japan's veteran lawmaker and fiscal dove Sanae Takaichi said on Thursday she would run in the ruling party's leadership ballot on Oct 4 to replace outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba. Takaichi, who ...

Japan will consider whether to allow North Korean athletes to participate in next year's Asian Games in Nagoya after the North expressed its intention to take part, the Japanese government said on ...

The prefectural assembly of Okinawa, one of Japan's most popular tourist destinations, on Thursday passed an ordinance to impose a 2 percent accommodation tax to support local tourism. Due to take ...

Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a mutual defense pact that regards any attack on either nation as an attack on both in the wake of Israel's strike on Qatar. Saudi Arabia long has ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers will consider using two-way star Shohei Ohtani as a relief pitcher to shore up their struggling bullpen, manager Dave Roberts said Wednesday. The Japanese superstar has been ...

Israeli troops and tanks pushed deeper into Gaza City on Wednesday as more people fled the devastated area, and strikes cut off phone and internet services, making it harder for Palestinians to summon ...

Australia pledged Thursday to slash planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by up to 70 percent from 2005 levels over the next decade, a target activists warned was not ambitious enough. Under the ...

Mahito Ikeda, deputy principal of Seirei Senior High School in Seto, Aichi Prefecture. A softball team captain at the private high school took her own life in 2022, but the school explained to her ...

ABC has suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely following comments he made about Charlie Kirk’s killing. The network's decision Wednesday came Nexstar announced its ABC affiliates would ...

The European Union laid out Wednesday its toughest plan yet to pressure Israel to end the war in Gaza as Palestinians fled en masse from Israeli tanks, drones and troops pushing deeper into the ...

The U.S. public health system is headed to a “very dangerous place” with Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr and his team of anti-vaccine advisers in charge, fired Centers for Disease Control and ...

Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield is leaving the ice cream brand after 47 years, saying that the independence it once had to speak up on social issues has been stifled by parent company ...