PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber targeted protesters at an antimilitant rally in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least 14 people, mostly civilians and police officers, and wounding more than two dozen others, officials said. The attack happened in Kabal, a town in Swat...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) -- Visitors have formed a long line every day to enter a Tokyo shop promoting specialty products of Kumamoto Prefecture to support the southwestern Japan prefecture hit by Tuesday 's huge earthquake. They aim to support people in areas devastated by the quake with an...
MASHIKI, Kumamoto Pref. (Jiji Press) -- Scorching heat waves and widespread water outages are adding to the hardships faced by more than 9,000 evacuees in areas devastated by Tuesday 's powerful earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan. With the quake-hit areas marking their...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) -- The Japanese government has decided to revise its nuclear energy policy guidelines to include a target of rebuilding two to five nuclear power reactors by the 2040s. The decision was adopted at a meeting of relevant cabinet ministers held at the prime minister 's office...
KUMAMOTO (Jiji Press) -- The death toll from Tuesday 's powerful earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, has risen to 38 as two more deaths have been confirmed, the prefectural disaster response headquarters said Sunday. A woman in her 70s died while sleeping in a car,...
NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices fell sharply Sunday after President Donald Trump said he would order U.S. forces to hold off on new strikes against Iran, claiming that a deal to end the fighting in the Middle East was near. A resolution to the conflict, which has lasted more than five months, could...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel has shared “serious security concerns” with the White House regarding the proposed disarmament deal with Hamas, an Israeli official said as Israeli strikes overnight and into Sunday evening killed at least 17 people, including children, in Gaza. The remarks by...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday he decided to hold off on ordering American forces to carry out new strikes against Iran at the urging of Gulf allies Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. The U.S. president added that a plan was in place for U.S. forces to carry...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — President Donald Trump said late Saturday that he would halt new planned attacks on Iran pending renewed talks to wind down the war and revive stalled cargo traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. It was the latest in a pattern of announcements the U.S. president has made...
LACANAU, France (AP) — Europe 's wildfire crisis fractured along starkly different fronts Sunday: gale-force winds drove flames deeper into the Athens region and forced fresh evacuations, France guarded a still-burning scar four times the size of Paris against renewed spread, and Spain...
SURABAYA, Indonesia (AP) — An Indonesian ferry carrying 271 people caught fire in waters off the main island of Java on Sunday, leaving at least five people dead and dozens missing as rescuers and passing vessels evacuated hundreds from the burning ship, officials said. The Mutiara Sentosa 2...
TOKYO (AP) — An elderly woman who developed heat stroke while taking shelter in a car is the latest fatality from a powerful earthquake that struck Japan’s southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto last week, officials said Sunday as concerns over heat-related illnesses grow in an area that is also...
