TOKYO – Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made another pitch on July 15 for security bills which would beef up Japan’s military, as he pushed...
VIENNA – A group of six nations led by the United States said they had reached a historic accord on Tuesday to significantly limit Tehran’s nuclear...
WASHINGTON DC– Defense Secretary Ash Carter has ordered a six-month study aimed at formally ending one of the last gender- or sexuality-based barriers to military...
PARIS – French President Francois Hollande used his Bastille Day message to the French on Tuesday to call for a strengthening of the 19-nation euro...
BEIJING – Dozens of Chinese lawyers including some of the country’s more prominent “rights defenders” have been detained or questioned over the past few days in...
CHINA – More than 1 million people were evacuated in eastern China as Typhoon Chan-Hom made landfall Saturday afternoon. The storm’s powerful winds knocked out...
MANILA – Daniel Cabrera a Nine-year-old homeless Filipino boy touched hearts around the world after he was photographed doing his homework in the dim light...
ATHENS – Germany wants Greece pushed out of the euro currency to frighten France into accepting Berlin’s “model of a disciplinarian eurozone,” former Greek finance minister...
YANGON – Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met senior party members in Naypyidaw Saturday to decide if the party will contest polls set for...
ROME – A former papal ambassador and Archbishop, Jozef Wesolowski, 66, accused of sexually abusing minors has been hospitalized in an intensive care unit — pushing back...
TUNISIA – The parents of Seifeddine Rezgui who killed 38 people in the Tunisian resort city of Sousse on June 26 have defended their 23-year-old...
JAKARTA – Philippine Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao prayed with Mary Jane Veloso a Philippine woman on death row in Indonesia and promised to appeal for...
ANKARA – Thai spokesman Werachon Sukhondhapatipak told reporters the Government of Thailand has closed its embassy and Consulate in Turkey following protests over it’s deportation of...
ISTANBUL – Turkish protesters have attacked the Thai consulate in Istanbul following the deportation from Thailand of about 100 Uighurs to China. Thai officials said that...
NAPLES – Pope Francis urged members of organized crime to turn away from violence and exploitation and stop the “tears of the mothers of Naples”...
THE HAGUE – The Philippines has appealed to an international tribunal to declare China’s claims to most of the South China Sea illegal, warning the...
MOSCOW – The Putin Government this week warned its citizens of the life-threatening dangers involved with selfies, as part a new public awareness campaign. The...
LONDON – Six staff from Britain’s biggest bank HSBC have been sacked after a video appeared online showing them taking part in a mock Islamic...
TOKYO – The world’s oldest man, Sakari Momo a retired educator from Japan, has died at the age of 112, an official said Tuesday. Sakari...
PAMPLONA, Spain – Two Americans and a Briton were gored and eight others injured Tuesday as thousands of daredevils dashed alongside fighting bulls through the...