The United States has urged Japan not to recognize Palestine as a state at the U.N. General Assembly later this month, diplomatic sources said Friday. The planned recognition of the Palestinian state ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is arranging a visit to South Korea, possibly on Sept 30, to meet with his counterpart President Lee Jae Myung, according to a government source. The envisaged ...

Canada's Evan Dunfee and Spain's Maria Perez claimed the opening golds on offer at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo with respective victories in the men and women's 35km race walking events ...

South Africa will showcase their young backline talent while Argentina need an 80-minute performance as both teams attempt to keep their Rugby Championship title hopes alive on Saturday. Shaken by a ...

Sebastian Coe, the head of World Athletics, on Friday said the organization is sticking to its long-held position that Russian athletes won't be allowed at the upcoming world championships and other ...

Police in Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture, have arrested a 32-year-old man and his 28-year-old wife on suspicion of abusing their 8-year-old daughter at their home. According to police, Tomoki Yoshida, a ...

Japan will send Air Self-Defense Force F-15 fighter jets for the first time to Britain, Germany and Canada for defense exchanges starting this weekend, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani said Friday. The ...

Radical violence. Immigration raids. White supremacists. Leonardo DiCaprio's politically charged new movie "One Battle After Another" could scarcely be more timely. Part-action, part-drama, with ...

Boeing workers at its St. Louis area defense factories will stay on strike after union members voted Friday to reject a new contract offer from the U.S. aviation giant. The strike began August 4, ...

Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visited Nagasaki on Friday to pay respects to victims of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing, in their last trip to honor the war dead on the ...

European Union regulators have accepted Microsoft's proposed changes to Teams, resolving a long-running antitrust investigation that targeted the company's messaging and videoconferencing app. The ...

A young Utah man suspected of killing the conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a university forum has been taken into custody, as U.S. leaders reacted with sorrow and frustration over the latest ...