North Korea said Monday it had successfully tested a new ballistic missile, triggering a US-led call for an urgent UN Security Council meeting after a launch seen as a challenge to President Donald...
Japan's economy expanded 0.2 percent in the last quarter of 2016, government data showed Monday, as exports and company investments propped up growth. The figures marked the fourth straight quarter...
Despite his campaign vows to take a tougher line with North Korea, President Donald Trump's restrained public reaction to Pyongyang's first ballistic missile launch on his watch underscores that he...
North Korea has confirmed that it "successfully" fired a ballistic missile on Sunday in a test supervised by leader Kim Jong-un. The device was described as a "surface-to-surface medium-to-long-range...
North Korea confirmed it had "successfully" tested a ballistic missile, the state-run news agency KCNA reported Monday. "A surface-to-surface medium long-range ballistic missile Pukguksong-2... was...
Israeli ministers on Sunday endorsed a contentious draft bill which Muslims say is meant to silence the traditional call to prayer, information released by the justice ministry showed. A list of...
The former prime minister of Lesotho returned to the landlocked mountain kingdom on Sunday, pledging to win back power two years after fleeing in fear of his life. Thomas Thabane, leader of the All...
The head of Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah movement on Sunday urged the government to coordinate with Damascus to help refugees to return now that "large areas" of Syria are "safe". In a televised...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday hailed the US veto of a Palestinian to be named UN envoy to Libya, saying the world body failed to give equal consideration to Israelis. "I was informed of...
It has never been easy being a lawmaker who identifies as Palestinian in the Israeli parliament, but today it is harder than ever, Arab Israeli MPs say. In recent months they have seen their...
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile in the first such test since Donald Trump took office as US president. Mr Trump assured Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that “America stands behind...
North Korea has fired a ballistic missile in the first such test since Donald Trump took office as US president. Mr Trump assured Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that “America stands behind...
Cambodia's opposition party was set to meet on Sunday after the shock resignation of its founder and leader, an official said, with the movement increasingly boxed in by the country's strongman...
President Donald Trump assured Japan it has the full support of the United States following a North Korean ballistic missile launch. "I just want everybody to understand and fully know that the...
President Donald Trump pushed back early on Saturday on assertions that the wall he wants built on the U. S. border with Mexico would cost more than anticipated and said he would reduce the price....
British Defence Minister Michael Fallon said Saturday in Iraq that he expected to see the Islamic State group expelled from the country's major towns by the end of 2017. "We expect to see Daesh (IS)...
Reporters had plenty of time to snap President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shaking hands yesterday. Trump held on to Abe's hand for a full 19 seconds during their handshake....
After reportedly hitting it off in the Oval Office President Donald Trump and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe flew south to tee off on the golf course, meeting Saturday in Florida to discuss...
US President Donald Trump offered Japan assurances Friday that mutual defense agreements cover the disputed Senkaku Islands, claimed by China as the Diaoyus. After repeatedly questioning defense...
US President Donald Trump said Friday he is confident his administration will prevail in the legal battle over his controversial immigration order, while pledging to move quickly on additional...
