The United Nations Security Council has held an emergency meeting on the deepening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says she wants to press Russia to consider a ceasefire by signaling that the European ...

US media outlet Axios has reported that the United States and three European countries have agreed to set the end of August ...

The number of foreign visitors to Japan in the first six months of this year reached 21.51 million, a 21 percent increase ...

Japanese police say they will ask media platform operators to promptly take down posts directing users to online gambling, which are classified as "illegal information." ...

Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of 20 economies are set to begin a two-day meeting in South ...

On the 80th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb test in the US state of New Mexico, a memorial sign was unveiled at the site acknowledging the damage and suffering caused by the radioactive ...

Japan's weather officials say bands of heavy rainclouds may develop over Shikoku in the western part of the country on Thursday afternoon. People in the region should be alert for mudslides, flooding ...

Some residents who evacuated from a quake-hit remote island chain in Japan's southwestern Kagoshima Prefecture began heading home on Wednesday.

In Thailand, tensions are heightening over a border dispute with neighboring Cambodia. Now, many people are worried about ...

Japan's health ministry says oral COVID-19 drugs for about 2.5 million people were disposed of after passing their expiry ...

A rapidly spreading wildfire at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona has forced the closure of part of the popular ...