The Japanese operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain is planning to sell part of its bank unit to major trading firm ...

Three years after the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol fell to Russia, a campaign calling for the release of prisoners of ...

Japan has started use of an eye-scan technology to help block AI-generated impersonators often used in online fraud. It has ...

The European Union has decided to impose additional sanctions on Russia. This comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

Japan's agriculture minister Eto Taku on Wednesday submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru over his ...

The prime minister of Qatar said on Tuesday that efforts to broker a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas have reached a ...

Members of the UN General Assembly have traded barbs at a meeting on the human rights situation in North Korea. Some nations contend that the North's human rights violations are closely tied to the ...

Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has decided to appoint Koizumi Shinjiro, the former chairperson of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Election Strategy Committee, to succeed Eto Taku as ...

A man who was arrested for driving in the wrong direction on an expressway in central Japan, hitting other vehicles, may have ...

The member states of the World Health Organization have adopted a new international treaty to strengthen measures against ...

The family of a Sri Lankan woman who died at an immigration detention facility in central Japan has filed another lawsuit ...

The Philippine leader and his vice president have not seen eye to eye recently. But after a turbulent midterm election, ...