June 16, 2021
SEOUL — The Seoul Central District Court has ordered the Japanese government to disclose an inventory of its assets in South Korea in response to the final judgment of the court in January, which ap...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli aircraft carried out a series of airstrikes at militant sites in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, the first such raids since a shaky cease-fire ended the war with Hamas last...
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 topped 600,000 on Tuesday, even as the vaccination drive has drastically brought down daily cases and fatalities and allowed the country to emerge from the gloom and...
LIMA (Reuters) — Peruvian socialist candidate Pedro Castillo claimed victory in the presidential election on Tuesday after clinging on to a narrow lead as the lengthy vote count ended, although his...
SINGAPORE/PARIS (Reuters) - French power group EDF has begun examination of a potential issue linked to a build-up of inert gases at its nuclear power station in China, though the company and its Chi...
CARBIS BAY, England (Reuters) — China on Sunday pointedly cautioned Group of Seven leaders that the days when “small” groups of countries decided the fate of the world was long gone, hitting ba...
Saima [not her real name], 15, was leading a regular teenage life of this generation, making videos on popular mobile app TikTok, before she was trafficked to India with the promise of a better job. ...
CARBIS BAY, England (AP) — World leaders from the Group of Seven industrialized nations are set to commit at their summit to share at least 1 billion coronavirus shots with struggling countries ar...
BEIJING (AP) — The dusty, rocky Martian surface and a Chinese rover and lander bearing small national flags were seen in photos released Friday that the rover took on the red planet.
The four pic...
Sri Lanka has asked Japan to provide 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine against the novel coronavirus.
The request was made at a meeting held Wednesday between Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajap...
LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II has marked what would have been her husband Prince Philip’s 100th birthday with the planting of a newly bred rose named after him.
The monarch watched the Duke ...
A summit meeting of the G7 industrialized nations will be held in Cornwall, southwest England, from Friday to Sunday, marking the first time in two years that their leaders will meet in person.
Las...
The Biden administration is buying 500 million doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine to donate to the world as the United States dramatically increases its efforts to help vaccinate more of the global...
MILDENHALL, England (AP) — President Joe Biden opened the first overseas trip of his term Wednesday with a declaration that “the United States is back” as he seeks to reassert the nation on th...
Korea has recently emerged as an attractive art market on the back of the purchasing power of younger collectors, grabbing increasing attention from the world. Globally renowned galleries are opening ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Juno spacecraft has provided the first close-ups of Jupiter’s largest moon in two decades.
Juno zoomed past icy Ganymede on Monday, passing within 645 miles...
NEW YORK (AP) — The Boss just can’t quit Broadway.
Bruce Springsteen will return to Broadway this summer for a limited run of his one-man show “Springsteen on Broadway.” Performances at the...
Friday marked 32 years since China’s deadly military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4, 1989.
Back then, Hong Kong was under British rule an...
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Two express trains collided in southern Pakistan early on Monday, killing at least 35 passengers, authorities said, as rescuers and villagers worked to pull injured people a...
BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives handily batted away a challenge from the far right in a state election Sunday that was seen as the last big test for Germany’s political p...
LIMA/TACABAMBA (Reuters) — Peru’s presidential election went down to the wire on Sunday as millions chose between two candidates espousing clashing ideologies in a close runoff that has deeply di...
NEW DELHI (AP) — As the coronavirus tears through India, night watchman Sagar Kumar thinks constantly about getting vaccines for himself and his family of five amid critical shortages of shots in th...
HANOI — Once seen as a model country in the fight against the pandemic, Vietnam is now battling a sudden surge in new infections that started in May.
The soaring numbers are possibly being cause...
HONG KONG (AP) — Police arrested an organizer of Hong Kong’s annual candlelight vigil remembering the deadly Tiananmen Square crackdown and warned people not to attend the banned event Friday as ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was calling into yet another friendly radio show when he was asked, as he often is, whether he’s planning a comeback bid for the White House. “We need you,” co...
TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan called on China on Thursday to return power to the people and embark upon real political reform rather than avoid facing up to the bloody 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown o...
BEIJING — Prominent Chinese human rights activist Tang Jitian was not allowed to leave China on Wednesday to see his ailing daughter in Japan.
Tang’s 25-year-old eldest daughter is unconscious a...
HONG KONG (AP) — For years, China has quashed any discussion on the mainland of its bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, nearly erasing what happened f...
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opponents announced they have reached a deal to form a new governing coalition, paving the way for the ouster of the longtime Israeli leader.
The...
South Korea is one of the unhappiest countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, largely because of its long working hours and high poverty rate for senior citizens, the st...
HONG KONG — A herd of 15 wild Asian elephants in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan traveled nearly 500 kilometers north of their habitat and entered urban areas, causing residents to evacuate....
SEOUL (AP) — North Korea said Monday the U.S. allowing South Korea to build more powerful missiles was an example of the U.S.’s hostile policy against the North, warning that it could lead to an ...
BEIJING (Reuters) — China announced on Monday that each couple would be permitted to have up to three children, a major policy shift from the existing limit of two children after recent data showed...
MIAMI (AP) — Violence ushered in the Memorial Day weekend in South Florida, when gunmen indiscriminately sprayed bullets into crowds at two Miami venues. Two people died and at least 20 others were...
JERUSALEM (AP) — A former ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said he would seek to form a coalition government with the Israeli leader’s opponents, taking a major step to...
Had the pandemic not hit Nepal and led to the suspension of international flights, Nabin Rai, a Nepali migrant worker in Malaysia, would have been home earlier in May. Rai, 29, from Mandan Deupur Muni...
The Ministry of Finance is seeking the government’s approval for the establishment of a COVID-19 vaccine fund, it announced on May 19. The Ministry of Health plans to buy 150 million doses of vaccin...
BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand has started deploying a canine virus-detecting squad in hopes of quickly identifying people with COVID-19 as the country faces a surge in cases, with clusters at construction...
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to strengthen measures against hate crimes, including harassment and violence against Asian Americans in the United States. The ...
Warning of an increase of up to 2.5 C in temperature over the next two decades, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and World Bank (WB) have estimated that Pakistan is facing up to $3.8 billion in annual...
Just like everyone else, monks living in temples are having to make changes to adjust to new circumstances under the lockdown. They can no longer go out to collect alms in the morning and people canno...
Japanese and European Union leaders released a joint statement Thursday that included a reference to “stability across the Taiwan Strait,” marking the first time the Taiwan issue has been included...
In a telephone conversation with Israeli counterpart Gabi Ashkenazi on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi strongly encouraged Israel to continue implementing its efforts to ease the tensio...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday asked U.S. intelligence officials to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, including any possibility t...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — An employee opened fire Wednesday at a California rail yard serving Silicon Valley, killing eight people before ending his own life, authorities said.
The suspect was an e...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A family-friendly street festival, musical performances and moments of silence were held Tuesday to honor George Floyd and mark the year since he died at the hands of Minneapolis...
Myanmar’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared in person at a court hearing on Monday for the first time since her government was overthrown by the military in a Feb. 1 coup, her lawyer told Re...
MOSCOW (Reuters) — Belarusian authorities scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land on Sunday and then detained an opposition-min...
ROME (AP) — A cable car taking visitors to a mountaintop view of some of northern Italy’s most picturesque lakes plummeted to the ground Sunday and then tumbled down the slope, killing 14 people....
In a YouTube video titled “Starlight: Stand with Myanmar,” Shin Dae-chul, the lead guitarist of South Korea’s first heavy metal band Sinawe, holds up a three-fingered salute.
“This music is de...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire Thursday, halting a bruising 11-day war that caused widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip, brought life in much of Israel to a standstill...
SHENYANG, China — China’s entire media delegation for the Tokyo Games will be on a scale of 3,000 personnel, China Central Television reported. Shen Haixiong, the head of CCTV and a deputy hea...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli warplanes unleashed a series of heavy airstrikes at several locations of Gaza City early Monday, hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to create an independent commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, sending the legislation to an uncertain future in the Senate a...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday called for a U.S. diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, criticizing China for human rights ab...
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s total virus cases since the pandemic began swept past 25 million on Tuesday as the country registered more than 260,000 new cases and a record 4,329 fatalities in the pa...
NEW YORK (AP) — Ariana Grande is a newlywed.
A representative for the singer confirmed that she recently married real estate agent Dalton Gomez.
Grande’s rep told People that they tied the kn...
LONDON (Reuters) — Friends will hug, pints will be pulled and swathes of the British economy will reopen on Monday giving 65 million people a measure of freedom after the gloom of a four-month COVI...
TAIPEI (Reuters) — A surge of coronavirus infections in Taiwan, one of the world’s COVID-19 mitigation success stories, has left it scrambling to get vaccines as its stock of 300,000 doses starts...
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel launched dozens of air strikes in Gaza and the Hamas militant group kept up its rocket attacks on Israeli cities in fighting that spilled into a second week on Mon...
Authorities were still searching on May 9 for the last of three leopards that escaped from Hangzhou Safari Park in Zhejiang Province. From May 6 to the weekend, a number of reports appeared on social ...
Twelve sherpas who fixed ropes to the top of Everest on May 7 became the first climbers to summit the mountain this year, making it the earliest spring climb in two decades. With the growing number of...
LONDON (AP) — When London’s Science Museum reopens next week, it will have some new artifacts: empty vaccine vials, testing kits and other items collected during the pandemic, to be featured in a...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Thursday said it was massing troops along the Gaza frontier and calling up 9,000 reservists ahead of a possible ground invasion of the Hamas-ruled territory, as the two b...
TAIPEI, May 12 (Reuters) - Taiwan may raise its COVID-19 alert level in “coming days,” Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said on Wednesday, according to the official Central News Agency, which woul...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian militants launched dozens of rockets from Gaza and Israel unleashed new air strikes against them early Tuesday, in an escalation triggered by soaring tensions in Jerus...
SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Monday said he was looking forward to North Korea’s response to engagement efforts as he seeks to restore peace-building amid stalled talks ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A gunman opened fire at a birthday party in Colorado, slaying six adults before killing himself Sunday, police said.
The shooting happened just after midnight in a ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) — European countries distanced themselves on Friday from a proposal backed by U.S. President Joe Biden to waive patent rights on coronavirus vaccines, arguing that key to ending ...
GENEVA (Reuters) — The World Health Organization hopes the Olympics can go ahead in Japan this summer, its emergencies chief said on Friday, saying many of the decisions on the format of the games ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Medical student Natty Jumreornvong has a vaccine and protective gear to shield her from the coronavirus. But she couldn’t avoid exposure to the anti-Asian bigotry that pulsed to ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — With coronavirus cases still surging to record levels, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing growing pressure to impose a harsh nationwide lockdown amid a debate whether r...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is signaling that Iran shouldn’t expect major new concessions from the United States as a new round of indirect nuclear talks is set to resume.
A seni...
HONG KONG (AP) — Prominent pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong was sentenced to more jail time Thursday for participating in an unauthorized vigil to commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police arrested a man who they say is suspected of stabbing two Asian American women without warning Tuesday afternoon in San Francisco’s Mid-Market area.
Officers were sen...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a goal to vaccinate 70% of U.S. adults with at least one COVID-19 shot by the July 4 Independence Day holiday and said the gover...
