President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a National Guard member had died after being shot in an ambush by an Afghan national near the White House, an attack that drew accusations from his ...

China's defense ministry said on Thursday that Japan will have to pay a "painful price" if it steps out of line over Taiwan, responding to Japanese plans to deploy missiles on an island some 100 km ...

Japan's ruling bloc is set to regain its majority in the powerful House of Representatives as three independent lawmakers in the chamber have decided to join the in-house group of the Liberal ...

The British government welcomed the news Thursday that net migration in the U.K., the difference between those moving to the country long-term and those leaving, fell by more than two-thirds in the ...

Last summer, we reported on an announcement by the police that a certain toy gun found in crane games across Japan was deemed a real gun. Honestly, it’s a little laughable, since even though the toy ...

President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday unveiled a new program meant to bolster France’s armed forces by training thousands of volunteers aged 18 and 19 starting next year, part of a broader response to ...

Takuji Aida, a private-sector member of a key government panel and an adviser to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. He says Japan can actively intervene in the currency market to mitigate the negative ...

The International Judo Federation (IJF) has decided to “reinstate full national representation” of Russian athletes at its competitions starting this weekend, it said on Thursday, despite the ongoing ...

Russian forces have surrounded the embattled Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk and control 70% of it, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, but Kyiv's top general said Ukraine was pushing back hard and ...

A woman in her 60s living in Aichi Prefecture has been conned out of more than 80 million yen in cash and gold bars by someone she met on social media, following a false investment scheme. According ...

If you’ve seen any of the “Ice Age” animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don’t know the real ice age. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense systemic changes ...

Toyota Motor Corp said Thursday its global output in October rose 3.8 percent from a year earlier to 926,987 units, hitting a record high for a single month for the first time in nearly two years, ...