The Nikkei stock index climbed 26 percent in 2025 from a year earlier to close at a record year-end high above 50,000 on Tuesday, helped by an artificial intelligence boom and expectations for ...

China fired rockets toward Taiwan on Tuesday and deployed new amphibious assault ships alongside bomber aircraft and warships to encircle the island on the second day of its most extensive war games ...

Police in Shiota, Saga Prefecture, have arrested a 61-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of fatally assaulting his 93-year-old father at their home. Police said Makoto Yamaguchi, who was arrested on ...

Turkish police detained 110 suspects in an operation against Islamic State on Tuesday, a day ‌after three police officers and six militants were killed in a gunfight in northwest Turkey, the Istanbul ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may have extra trouble sleeping after she moved into the prime minister's official residence, where ghosts of Japanese soldiers from a century ago are reputed to ...

Efforts to redevelop a historically significant house in the Philippines to memorialize local women abused there by Japanese soldiers during World War II are facing funding and logistical hurdles, ...

A father and son accused of a mass shooting at Australia's Bondi beach "acted alone" and were not part of a wider terrorist cell, police said on Tuesday. Sajid Akram and his son Naveed allegedly ...

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Saudi Arabia bombed the port city of Mukalla in Yemen on Tuesday over what it described as a shipment of weapons for a separatist force there that arrived from the United Arab Emirates. The UAE did ...

The United States on Monday announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump’s administration continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance and warns United Nations ...

Matsuya department store's window in Tokyo's Ginza district features a display of kasafuku, a traditional craft that has been handed down in Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture since ancient times.

Political opposition leaders in the United Kingdom have called for a human rights activist to be stripped of his citizenship over past social media posts allegedly containing violent and antisemitic ...