TOKYO, Japan– Japan on Saturday marked a year since the shock assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, the country's longest-serving leader and a towering political figure. Abe was gunned down in broad daylight while giving a campaign speech in western Japan, targeted by a man...
SEOUL, Korea– A group of South Korean civic activists, politicians, fishermen and ordinary people gathered in central Seoul on Saturday to raise their voice against the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) final report on Japan's planned discharge of nuclear wastewater into the...
KYIV, Ukraine– President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed "brave" Ukraine on the 500th day of Russia's invasion on Saturday, as the war's toll mounted with eight deaths reported in Russian rocket fire. Zelensky published on social media an undated video clip of a visit to Snake Island in the Black...
MOSCOW, July 8– Russia has condemned the U.S. decision to supply cluster munitions to Ukraine as a path to genocide and a threat to world peace, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on Friday. The U.S. decision was a direct path to genocide and it, together with its European partners,...
NIKOPOL, Ukraine– On the 500th day since Russia's invasion and as the war grinds on, Ukrainian forces are advancing slowly without enough arms and ammunition and with its main cities under constant threat. Since the beginning of June, Ukraine's army has been on the offensive to reconquer...
WASHINGTON, United States– The United States announced Friday it will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine for the first time as Kyiv's forces face tough fighting in their counteroffensive against invading Russian troops. The move drew sharp criticism from rights groups due to the danger...
ROME– The world Food Price Index of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) continued to fall in June, with the downward trend being driven by a drop in the prices of sugar, vegetable oils, cereals and dairy products, the organization said Friday. The index, which tracks...
UNITED NATIONS– UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday welcomed the adoption of a revised strategy by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from international shipping, and asked for follow-up measures. Member states of the IMO on Friday...
WASHINGTON, United States- World daily temperature records have been smashed this week, according to preliminary data. The modeling tools that produced these estimates can provide an early warning of extreme heat events, even if they aren't as precise as monthly and yearly reports produced by...
NEW DELHI, India-- In the run-up to rural body elections, locally called panchayat polls, in India's eastern state of West Bengal, at least four people were killed in poll-related violence, officials said Friday. The deaths took place on Thursday in four districts, namely South 24-Parganas,...
 SHIJIAZHUANG, China -- Staff members of the State Grid Baoding Electric Power Supply Company inspect equipment in Baoding, north China's Hebei Province, July 6, 2023. Hebei on Friday renewed a red alert for high temperatures, the highest in China's alert system.(Xinhua/ MANILA BULLETIN)...
SYDNEY, Australia -- Police in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) said on Friday that two men were injured following a public place shooting in Sydney's inner west. According to a statement by NSW Police Force, at about 1:50 p.m. local time on Friday, emergency services were called to a...
