Tokyo: Two people were confirmed dead on Wednesday as heavy rains pounded southwest Japan, prompting flood and landslide warnings and orders for 670,000...
Tokyo: Two people were confirmed dead on Wednesday as heavy rains pounded southwest Japan, prompting flood and landslide warnings and orders for 670,000...
Manila, Philippines: At least three people were killed and 245 others were rescued after a fire engulfed a ferry in the southern Philippines...
TOKYO: Iran is not seeking to increase tension but every country should be able to enjoy its rights under international law, Foreign Minister...
Shanghai: China has invited public responses to a draft law to prevent illegal fishing and depletion of coastal fish stocks, as current legislation...
Sydney: Australia moved to counter foreign interference at its universities Wednesday, establishing a task force to help protect sensitive research, cyberdefences and free...
LIMA: Peru and Colombia called on Tuesday on fellow Amazonian countries to attend a presidential meeting next month on the forest fires raging...
Porto Velho, Brazil: Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday he was open to discussing G7 aid for fighting fires devastating the Amazon rainforest,...
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Jorge Ortiz, a 50-year-old construction worker, was taking no chances as Tropical Storm Dorian approached Puerto Rico on Tuesday...
KUTUPALONG REFUGEE CAMP, Bangladesh: When Nazmin Nahar, a Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, was offered a job in a garment factory by a distant...
JHANSI: Her face veiled, Kiran Aherwal shoveled gravel into a broad platter, placed it on her head, then stepped off to help construct...
ANKARA: A 17-year-old Palestinian has been denied U.S. entry to study at Harvard University on a notorious policy that bars even some who...
WASHINGTON: Wrapping himself in the legacy of "Obamacare," Joe Biden is offering restless Democrats a health care proposal that goes far beyond it,...
Athens: Newly-elected Athens mayor Costas Bakoyannis, scion of one of Greece's most powerful political families, took his oath of office Sunday pledging to...
TOKYO: Pyongyang appears to be developing warheads to penetrate a ballistic missile shield defending Japan, the country's defense chief said on Tuesday, pointing...
BEIRUT: Syrian rebels on Tuesday launched a wide-scale attack against a five-month Russia-backed Syrian army campaign aiming to take back the opposition's last...
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday endorsed Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's response to the fires raging in the Amazon and pledged "full...
Kampala: Uganda on Tuesday re-launched its national airline after two decades with an inaugural flight to Nairobi, becoming the latest East African nation...
CAIRO: Libya's coast guard says it has retrieved at least five bodies from a boat carrying dozens of Europe-bound migrants that capsized in...
