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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered officials to step up production of missiles and construct more factories to meet his military's growing need
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday that he spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared
President Donald Trump said Thursday night that he’d launched a “powerful and deadly" U.S. strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending
Reigning champions Oklahoma City have the NBA's best record, but they can't find a way to defeat San Antonio, with superstar Victor Wembanyama coming off
Police in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, have arrested a 27-year-old man on suspicion of allegedly assaulting his 27-year-old common-law wife.
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A planned Christmas Eve jazz concert at the Kennedy Center, a holiday tradition dating back more than 20 years, has been canceled. The show's host, musician
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday arrangements are being made for her to meet with President Donald Trump in the United States in early 2026,
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda on Thursday reiterated his readiness to continue raising interest rates from a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent, citing
China has urged domestic travel agencies to reduce the number of Japan-bound tourists by 40 percent, industry sources said Thursday, amid a Beijing-Tokyo
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday urged Japanese firms to agree to pay raises above inflation in annual wage negotiations next year, as her government
Mikaela Shiffrin has plenty to celebrate this Christmas.
The American skiing standout is off to a perfect start in slalom during the Olympic season — with
Legislators in Algeria voted to declare France’s colonization of the North African country a crime, approving a law that calls for restitution of property
A helicopter crashed on Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, killing five people, the civil aviation authority said on Thursday, while local media reported
Poland sent fighter jets to intercept a Russian reconnaissance aircraft flying near its airspace over the Baltic Sea and said dozens of objects entered
Istanbul police launched scores of simultaneous raids on Thursday, detaining over a hundred suspected members of the militant Islamic State group who were