Reasons range from a fear of angering autocratic governments to political differences with Hamas or doubts that it could impact state policy.

The yen was at around ¥157.55 per dollar when it suddenly spiked, strengthening as far as ¥153 over the next half hour.

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New Zealand's foreign minister acknowledged China as a 'vital economic partner' but said Wellington will continue to share ...

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In the pre-dawn hours, helmeted police swarmed a tent city set up at the University of California in Los Angeles, using flash ...

At the back of Kondaya Genbei, a 280-year-old obi wholesaler in Kyoto, slippered art-goers ascend a winding stairwell just ...

Born in Berlin to a Swedish architect father and a Japanese pianist mother, Hemming began learning the piano from her mother ...

The crash of two Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopters during night training off a remote Tokyo island last month is highly ...

Myanmar's junta has suspended the issuing of permits for men to work abroad, it has said, weeks after introducing a military ...

Florida Derby winner Fierceness and Blue Grass Stakes winner Sierra Leone are favored in Saturday's 150th Kentucky Derby, ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said the question of sending Western troops to Ukraine would "legitimately" arise if Russia broke through Ukrainian front lines and Kyiv made such a request, in an ...