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An 18-year-old high school student who was was arrested on Feb 1 on suspicion of stabbing to death a 55-year-old woman last November will undergo a three-month psychiatric…

Police in Muroran, Hokkaido, have arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of stabbing his grandmother, who is in her 70s, at her home. According to police, the incident…

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said Friday he will not attend a meeting of finance chiefs from the Group of 20 major and emerging economies in South Africa…

Akie Abe, widow of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on Friday praised U.S. President Donald Trump, who built a personal rapport with her husband during his…

Pop superstar Madonna has reignited her campaign against President Donald Trump, upbraiding the U.S. leader for calling himself "the King." Horror author Stephen King also laid into Trump…

A Madrid derby. A German classic. A rare meeting between Liverpool and Paris Saint-Germain. The Champions League got more heavyweight clashes when the draw for the round of…

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan won the pairs event at the Four Continents figure skating competition on Friday, recapturing the title they first took home two…

Liverpool's charge towards the Premier League title has slowed ahead of a trip to Manchester City on Sunday, giving Arsenal hope of closing in on the leaders. The…

A group of Japanese business leaders on Friday concluded a six-day visit to China after inspecting companies in Changsha, Hunan Province, with some members expressing disappointment over not…

When President Donald Trump sat down to lunch with his Japanese counterpart this month, talk turned quickly to how Tokyo could help realize a decades-old proposal to unlock…

Apple said on Friday it was ending full end-to-end encryption for British customers and iPhone users, following US media reports the UK government had asked for global data…

On February 17, the Shizuoka City city council gathered for a regular meeting of the assembly. One of the topics discussed, though, was anything but ordinary: it looks like Shizuoka is…

Only around one in six Japanese citizens hold valid passports, fresh data has shown, with the number of residents traveling abroad slowly recovering but still below pre-pandemic levels.…

Japan's cabinet approved a bill Friday allowing hunters to shoot bears in populated areas at their own discretion after human encounters with the wild animals hit record levels.…

Swedish and Finnish police are investigating a suspected case of sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, and Sweden's coast guard has deployed a vessel…

A federal judge on Friday cancelled the corruption trial for New York City Mayor Eric Adams and appointed counsel to advise him on how to handle the Justice…

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany's free speech laws during an appearance at a conservative gathering outside Washington, linking the country's limits against hate speech to…

President Donald Trump sparred with Maine's Democratic governor during a meeting of governors at the White House on Friday, with Gov. Janet Mills telling the Republican president, “We'll…

Six weeks after the most destructive wildfire in city history, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass ousted the city’s fire chief Friday amid a public rift over preparations for…

Hamas said on Friday it was investigating a possible error in identifying human remains handed to Israel under a ceasefire deal as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened retaliation…

Federal workers responsible for America's nuclear weapons, scientists trying to fight a worsening outbreak of bird flu, and officials responsible for supplying electricity are among those who have…

President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine and Russia said on Friday that he had held “extensive and positive discussions” with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the three-year war…