The Japanese government is planning to draw up Japan's first national intelligence strategy by year-end to serve as a ...

The UN Human Rights Office says Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, killed at least 6,000 people in and around ...

US President Donald Trump says the United States will send a second aircraft carrier to the Middle East as high-level talks ...

An expert panel is set to discuss whether Japan's health ministry should approve two products using iPS cells. The treatments ...

Beijing's recent call on Chinese citizens to avoid travel to Japan has hit the country's tourism industry hard, with hotels reporting many cancellations. They're having to come up with new strategies.

Media in Bangladesh say the former main opposition party has won a landslide victory in the general election. This was the ...

Major political parties in Thailand have agreed to form a government, days after a general election. The ruling Bhumjaithai ...

Huge ice-covered trees dubbed "snow monsters" are attracting crowds to a mountain range in northern Japan. The evergreens blanketed in white are at their viewing best in the Zao mountains, which ...

Japanese police on Saturday morning searched the home of the former mayor of Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture, who is accused of lying about her academic record.

A Chinese app aimed at people who live alone has become a surprise hit worldwide. It’s called “Demumu,” and it creates an “invisible” safety layer through daily check-ins and an emergency-contact ...

Delegations from Russia, Ukraine and the United States are scheduled to meet in Geneva next week to discuss a peace plan.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport, or CAS, has ruled against a Ukrainian athlete who had been banned from the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games over a helmet bearing photos of athletes from ...