Three Chinese nationals were arrested for operating a poker gambling den in Tokyo, police said, suspecting they made over 60 million yen in less than a year. Wang Yi, a 42-year-old resident of Tokyo's ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed caution about a consumption tax cut as an inflation relief step on Sunday, suggesting such a reduction in tax revenue would cause a serious drain on state ...

In the early months of 2022, as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began, millions of Ukrainians — mostly women and children — fled to Poland, where they were met with an extraordinary outpouring ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday proposed direct talks with Ukraine on May 15 in Istanbul that he said should be aimed at bringing a durable peace and eliminating the root causes of the war.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, ...

The Sapporo District Public Prosecutors Office has decided to have a 43-year-old man arrested on suspicion of killing his 10-year-old son undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine if he is ...

Some 39 percent of people in Japan feel lonely at times, according to a recent government survey, with legislation that took effect in April last year to address isolation apparently not yet having a ...

A South Korean temple that claimed ownership of a 14th-century Buddha statue stolen from a Japanese temple in 2012 handed it over to the Japanese owner on Saturday. While the statue, taken by South ...

James Foley, a journeyman director best known for “Glengarry Glen Ross,” has died. He was 71. He died earlier this week after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, his representative, Taylor Lomax, ...

Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected users' data without permission, the state’s attorney general has announced. In 2022, Attorney General Ken Paxton sued ...

British cyclist Joshua Tarling beat pre-race favorite Primoz Roglic by a solitary second in an individual time trial to win the second stage of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday. Roglic moved into the ...

During his nine years living in Tennessee, Fahd, a Saudi national, found comfort and consistency at Dunkin Donuts, where he placed the same order every day. Now back in Riyadh, Fahd is doing something ...