Australia and New Zealand said they will send government planes to New Caledonia on Tuesday to evacuate nationals from the French territory, which has experienced a week of deadly riots sparked by electoral changes by the French government in Paris.
Major Japanese companies agreed to raise monthly pay by 5.58%, or ¥19,480, on average in this year's spring labor-management wage talks, according to the first tally by the Japan Business Federation, or Keidanren.
An inquiry into the U.K.’s decadeslong contaminated blood scandal has found evidence of a "chilling” cover-up by the British establishment, in a watershed moment that will finally trigger billions in compensation for the worst treatment disaster in the history of the revered National Health Service.
The United States and Saudi Arabia are close to a final agreement on a bilateral defense pact after the U.S. national security adviser made significant progress in talks with the Saudis over the weekend, the White House has said.
After reading last week’s column on the modernization of command and control in Japan’s military and the resulting need for a similar updating of the Japan-U.S. alliance, professor Ellis Krauss, one of the grand old men of Japan studies in the U.S, emailed, wondering if Japanese politicians had gotten the memo.
Food and medicine for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are piling up in Egypt because the Rafah crossing remains closed and there has been no aid delivered to a U.N. warehouse from a U.S.-built pier for two days, U.N. officials warned on Monday.
A U.S. congressional investigation released Monday found that carmakers BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and Volkswagen had used components from a Chinese supplier banned in the United States over alleged forced labor ties.
The International Criminal Court's prosecutor said on Monday he had requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defense chief and three Hamas leaders over alleged war crimes.
Taiwan swore in its new president, Lai Ching-te, on Monday in an elaborate, closely watched event complete with a thousand dancers and military air displays.
Donald Trump is an old-fashioned protectionist and he has been suggesting for a while that if elected he will quickly impose tariffs of 10% or more on all imports — a "ring around the collar” for the U.S. economy.
All Iranian presidents since the early 1980s have in essence been expressions of what the supreme leader thought he needed at the time. Ebrahim Raisi was not only a protege of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but also closer in his purist religious and political views.
Japan aims to win a 30% share of the global market for software-defined vehicles designed to improve performance by upgrading software rather than hardware, the industry and transport ministries said Monday.
India needs to create 115 million jobs by 2030 as more people enter the workforce, a study showed, suggesting that the South Asian nation has to boost services and manufacturing to keep the economy expanding.
Martin Gruenberg will step down as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. after findings of a toxic work environment put the regulator at the center of a heated political fight and fueled calls for his removal.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was given permission on Monday to appeal against extradition to the United States after arguing at London's High Court that he might not be able to rely on his right to free speech in a U.S. court.
A Russian-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that called on all countries to prevent "for all time" the placement, threat or use of any weapons in outer space failed on Monday, with the 15-member body split over the move.
The Ishikawa Prefectural Government on Monday unveiled a final draft of its plan for reconstruction after the Jan. 1 earthquake in the prefecture's Noto Peninsula.
Legendary Japanese animators Studio Ghibli on Monday became the first collective to receive an honorary Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Out of the fog that claimed the life of Iran’s president, some clarity is emerging about Tehran’s next steps.