CAIRO (AP) — Jordan 's air defenses intercepted five missiles launched from Iran early Wednesday, the country 's military said, hours after the U.S. military said it had knocked down an Iranian missile barrage launched against American forces in the Middle East, shattering a brief pause...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean authorities ordered civilians to evacuate on Tuesday after a suspected white phosphorus leak at a U.S. military base near the capital, Seoul. Officials in the city of Pyeongtaek urged nearby residents to move to a safe location and avoid skin exposure after...
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Conservative leader Keiko Fujimori was sworn in as Peru’s president on Tuesday after winning the June presidential runoff by a margin of fewer than 50,000 votes, a victory that confirmed a regional shift in South America toward the conservative wing. With the ceremony,...
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. 's migration agency is warning that criminal networks have been trafficking hundreds of thousands of people — many of them educated English speakers — to work in online scam centers, and the caseload is growing. The International Organization for Migration says...
TOKYO (Jiji Press)--The Japanese government Tuesday drew up a package of emergency measures for crime prevention, including a proposal to consider attaching GPS equipment to stalkers to prevent them from approaching victims. Authorities such as the National Police Agency aim to implement the...
KUMAMOTO (Jiji Press)--Police, firefighters and Self-Defense Force personnel continued search-and-rescue operations on Wednesday after a powerful earthquake struck Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan the previous day. Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said that the death toll from the...
Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to tie up remaining lawsuits that claim its talc products caused ovarian cancer. The drugmaker, which has been fighting talc-related lawsuits for more than a decade, said that the settlement is conditioned on at least 95% of remaining claimants...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had an "excellent" meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, their first sitdown since launching a joint war against Iran and it offered Netanyahu a chance to smooth out strains in their relationship. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said it knocked down an Iranian ballistic missile attack against American forces in the Middle East on Tuesday, shattering a brief pause in the fighting as mediators tried to get both sides back to negotiations. All Iranian missiles were successfully...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Tuesday ahead of Sen. Lindsey Graham 's funeral, with the two leaders discussing ways for Ukraine to produce its own powerful weapons and "other ideas that could help" in its ongoing war against Russia. ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said a new, separate category was created in its official casualty system to account for those killed and wounded in the renewed U.S.-Iran fighting because "Operation Epic Fury," the military 's name for combat operations against Tehran, has ended. The Defense...
TOKYO (AP) — A 7.1 magnitude earthquake shook Japan 's southern main island of Kyushu on Tuesday, leaving several people dead and dozens of others injured or missing after part of a shopping center and a huge chimney at a paper factory collapsed, officials said. A tsunami advisory was...
