SHIKA, Japan - The number of people unaccounted for after Japan's New Year's Day earthquake more than tripled on Monday to 323 while the death toll rose to 168, according to local authorities. A heavy dumping of snow meanwhile complicated relief efforts a week after the 7.5-magnitude quake,...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea was conducting live-fire drills on its western coast, Seoul's military said Sunday, the third consecutive day of military exercises near its contested maritime border with the South. Seoul's military said that North Korea had "conducted artillery fire with over 90...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Belgian politician Charles Michel has announced he will step down as European Council president after running in the European Parliament elections set for June. (FILES) Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel looks on as he addresses the media after the EU leaders struck a deal...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister on Sunday denied Seoul's claims that Pyongyang had fired dozens of artillery rounds near their border a day earlier. People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing,...
KYIV, Ukraine - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa said on a surprise visit to Kyiv on Sunday that Tokyo was "determined" to support Ukraine, as the second anniversary of Moscow's invasion nears. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba (R) poses with Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (L)...
SUZU, Japan - A woman in her 90s trapped for five days under the rubble by a huge earthquake in central Japan was rescued against the odds, but snow and storms were expected to complicate relief efforts on Sunday. This picture shows a collapsed home in Suzu city, Ishikawa prefecture on January 7,...
TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa visited Ukraine on Sunday to meet with her counterpart Dmytro Kuleba to show Tokyo's continued support, a ministry official said. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa (Photo by Ahn Young-joon / POOL / AFP) The unannounced visit was a change...
WASHINGTON, United States - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday accepted responsibility for failing to disclose a recent hospitalization, following reports that even top White House officials and President Joe Biden were in the dark that he was ill and unable to carry out his duties. The...
DHAKA, Bangladesh - Bangladesh votes Sunday in an election guaranteed to give Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina her fifth term in office, after a boycott by opposition parties whose ranks have been decimated by mass arrests. Dhaka University students hold a rally along a roadside in the capital on...
WASHINGTON, United States - Joe Biden will deliver his annual State of the Union address to Congress on March 7, the US president announced Saturday. "In this moment of great challenge for our country," House Speaker Mike Johnson said in a letter to Biden posted on X, "it is my solemn duty to...
PARIS, France - France's foreign minister told her Iranian counterpart Saturday that "Iran and its affiliates" must stop "destabilising acts" that could spark a broader conflict in the Middle East amid the war in Gaza. French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna (AFP) During a...
KYIV, Ukraine - At least 11 people, including five children, were killed by a Russian missile strike on the eastern Ukraine town of Pokrovsk on Saturday, the regional governor said, as the bombardments intensify. Since late December, there has been an increase in the number of strikes in both...
