Jordan has foiled a suspected Iranian-led plot to smuggle weapons into the U.S.-allied kingdom to help opponents of the ruling monarchy carry out acts of sabotage, according to two Jordanian sources with knowledge of the matter.
Water supply and sewage administration in Japan was consolidated in April under the jurisdiction of the infrastructure ministry, in a shift from the previous arrangement in which the health ministry oversaw the maintenance and management of water supply.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s historic visit to Washington in April has opened a new era in technology cooperation between the U.S. and Japan.
It’s one thing to say the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2023 was the hottest of the 150 years people have been making measurements. This well-documented claim is often dismissed by skeptics of global warming who point out that the Earth has a long history of temperature fluctuations. That’s why it’s important that a new paper shows last summer was actually the hottest in the last 2,000 years — and that our current temperatures are even more of an outlier than we realized.
Japan and the United States are planning to develop interceptors to shoot down hypersonic missiles by the 2030s under a contract signed by the two countries on Wednesday.
As the global fertility crisis continues to accelerate, so does anxiety over what to do about it.
Japan’s economy shrank in the first quarter as consumers and companies cut spending, extending a dismal performance that stretches back to last summer and complicates the picture for the central bank as it mulls the timing of its next interest rate hike.
Thailand may have to consider relocating its capital Bangkok because of rising sea levels, a senior official in the country's climate change office said on Wednesday.
Lawrence Wong was sworn in as the fourth prime minister of Singapore on Wednesday evening, leading a trade-dependent nation he warned would face turbulence from worsening geopolitical tensions.
France declared a state of emergency on the Pacific island of New Caledonia on Wednesday after three young Indigenous Kanak and a police official were killed in riots over electoral reform.
An increasing number of foreign actors, including nonstate actors, are seeking to influence U.S. elections, and while Russia, China and Iran are the most significant, they are far from alone, U.S. officials told a Senate committee on Wednesday.
Tokyo police on Thursday sent papers to prosecutors over an 18-year-old man's alleged use of smart glasses to cheat on Waseda University entrance exams in February.
In a country where the median age of the population is nearly 50, youth is a relative concept.
Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an met with Japanese ruling party officials, including former Prime Minister Taro Aso, in Tokyo on Wednesday in his first visit to Japan since assuming office in 2022.
Medical melodramas generally either give you the diagnosis, fatal or otherwise, up front or save it for later in the story. In the former category is Michihito Fujii’s 2020 drama, “The Last Ten Years,” which signals the young protagonist’s fate — she only has a decade left to live — right in the title. In the latter is the director’s new tearjerker, “18×2 Beyond Youthful Days.”
The rapper Awich, dressed all in black, marches toward the center of Makuhari Messe arena before declaring to the 30,000 in attendance, “Be the witness of how I truly ... POP ... MY ... SHIII!” The crowd cheers and the opening bars of her hit, “Gila Gila,” start up. With that, her stage platform rises and she seemingly ascends to the heavens.
China's measured response to the U.S. move to hike tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese goods ranging from syringes to batteries suggests relations between the world's two largest economies face more frost rather than a fresh firefight over trade.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday insisted there was no "humanitarian catastrophe" in Rafah, even as hundreds of thousands fled the south Gaza city amid intense fighting.
U.S. President Joe Biden’s sweeping tariff hikes on a range of Chinese imports are just the latest U.S. moves in a years-long campaign that is rewiring Asian trade routes, figures in the past few days show.
Robert Fico was just doing what he usually does, especially in a part of the country that voted for him. But minutes after Slovakia’s prime minister emerged from a meeting to mingle with supporters in the town of Handlova, he was being rushed to the hospital with bullet wounds.