NASA is cutting a mission aboard the International Space Station short after an astronaut had a medical issue. The space agency said Thursday the U.S.-Japanese-Russian crew of four will return to ...

Tensions between Minnesota and federal officials deepened on Thursday over a U.S. Immigration agent's fatal shooting of a 37-year-old mother of three in Minneapolis, an incident that drew condemnation ...

Earlier this month, the Fukui Prefectural Government Tokyo Office hosted a two-day tour for staff of overseas institutions based in Tokyo. The participants included senior staff from the embassies of ...

People in Iran's capital shouted from their homes and rallied in the street Thursday night after a call by the country's exiled crown prince for a mass demonstration, witnesses said, a new escalation ...

China's export ban on dual-use items to Japan will only affect military firms, the commerce ‌ministry said on Thursday, helping calm fears that Beijing might curb rare-earth shipments vital to Japan's ...

Chinese independent refiners are expected to switch to heavy crude from sources including Iran in coming months to ‌replace Venezuelan shipments halted since the U.S. removed the country's president, ...

Paul Thomas Anderson, Ryan Coogler, Guillermo del Toro, Chloé Zhao and Josh Safdie have been nominated for the Directors Guild’s top prize. The organization announced feature film and first-time ...

Japanese retail giant Fast Retailing lifted its 2025-26 annual net profit forecast on Thursday, buoyed by a strong performance in mainland China. The parent company of Uniqlo "reported significant ...

They’re at it again. China and Japan — frenemies, trading partners and uneasy neighbors with a tortured, bloody history they still struggle to navigate — are freshly at each other’s rhetorical throats ...

TikTok was picked by FIFA as the first “preferred platform” for video content on social media at a men’s World Cup, the soccer body said Thursday. The World Cup tie-in will see creators get special ...

In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House was moving ahead Thursday on legislation that would extend expired health care subsidies for the Affordable Care Act after renegade GOP ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi vowed Thursday to reduce the burden on Okinawa Prefecture of hosting U.S. military bases and strengthen the defense of the southwestern Nansei island chain ...