January 23, 2021
An international team of experts from the World Health Organization will begin a full-scale investigation later this month in Wuhan, China, to study how the novel coronavirus originated and spread. ...
TONGGUAN, China — Located a little more than 100 kilometers north of Pu’er in China’s Yunnan Province, known for the production of high-grade tea leaves, the mountain town of Tongguan has drawn ...
President Joe Biden's inaugural address Wednesday, as provided by CQ Transcripts:
Chief Justice Roberts, Vice President Harris.
Speaker Pelosi, Leader Schumer, Leader McConnell, Vice President Pe...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Joe Biden was sworn in as president of the United States on Wednesday, offering a message of unity and restoration to a deeply divided country reeling from a battered economy...
TEHRAN — The Afghan government has issued a postage stamp bearing the portrait of Tetsu Nakamura, the renowned Japanese medical doctor who helped rebuild Afghanistan as the local representative of ...
SEOUL — South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that, from the standpoint of Japan-South Korea relations, it is undesirable to convert the assets seized from Japanese companies into cash in a...
SEOUL (Reuters) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been elected as general secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party, state media KCNA said on Monday, taking over the title from his late father i...
BEIJING — A street in the southern Chinese city of Foshan, Guangdong Province, made to resemble a Japanese shopping district, opened back in August and has been capturing the interest of local resid...
At least 44 Japanese researchers have been involved in Thousand Talents Plan, a Chinese central government-led project to attract high-level scientists from overseas, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned. ...
BEIRUT — Opinion is divided among the Lebanese people regarding former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, 66, who fled to Lebanon after being indicted on suspicion of violating the Companies L...
NEW YORK — In a statement issued to The Yomiuri Shimbun on Dec. 28, former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn reiterated his criticism of Japan’s judicial system and talked about his future ac...
BEIRUT — Tuesday marked one year since former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn, 66, skipped bail and fled from Japan to Lebanon after being indicted on suspicion of violating the Companies Law...
German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer expressed an intention to dispatch navy ships to the Indo-Pacific region during a written interview with The Yomiuri Shimbun. Germany has taken this ...
The height of the world’s tallest mountain, Mt. Qomolangma, also known as Mt. Everest in the West, has been updated by surveyors and it is now measured as standing 8848.86 meters above sea level, Ch...
The U.N. World Food Programme was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday. The WFP’s executive director reflects on the rapid rise in world hunger.
By David Beasley, WFP Executive Director
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The 2020 GZERO Summit is slated for Wednesday, Japan time, and features co-chairs Ian Bremmer, U.S. political scientist, and Hiroaki Nakanishi, chairman of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), a...
BEIJING — An anti-Japanese war-themed drama series has been canceled in China after receiving criticism for being “too far removed from historical facts.” Concerns among Chinese authorities t...
WASHINGTON — The new SM-3 Block IIA interceptor missile, which was jointly developed by Japan and the United States, successfully intercepted an intercontinental ballistic missile in a test, the Mis...
Honda Motor Co. says it will launch by the end of this fiscal year a vehicle with level 3 self-driving features, which would allow the automobile to take over operations under certain conditions and l...
Transcript of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ victory speech Saturday night in Wilmington, Delaware, as prepared and provided by the Biden campaign:
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Good evening.
Congressman John Lew...
Transcript of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory speech Saturday night in Wilmington, Del., as delivered. Provided by the Biden campaign:
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My fellow Americans, the people of this nation hav...
DUBAI (Reuters) — Iran’s president said on Sunday the next U.S. administration should use the opportunity to compensate for President Donald Trump’s mistakes, Iranian state reported after Joe B...
World leaders on Sunday cheered Joe Biden’s election as U.S. president as a chance to enhance cooperation on climate change, the coronavirus and other problems after four years of President Donald ...
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The United States is expected to make a swift return to the Paris climate agreement following Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election. The administration ...
BEIJING — The administration of Chinese President Xi Jinping has released a bill in which it sets out the powers and other aspects of the China Coast Guard, making it more clear that it is a paramil...
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden used his first national address as president-elect to vow to heal a deeply divided nation, declaring it was time to “let this grim era of demonization in America...
BERLIN/LONDON/OTTAWA (Reuters) — Some of the United States’ biggest and closest allies quickly congratulated Joe Biden on his presidential election victory on Saturday even though Donald Trump, w...
PHILADELPHIA — Election staff focused on their work of closely scrutinizing and counting mail-in ballots for the U.S. presidential election at a vote-counting center on Friday in Philadelphia, Penn...
WILMINGTON, Del./WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Democrat Joe Biden said Friday that he was going to win the U.S. presidency as his lead grew over President Donald Trump in battleground states, although tel...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump spent a second day in the White House on Thursday stewing over election results that suggested a path to victory was slipping from his grasp, even as his c...
By Jeff Mason, Steve Holland and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON/WILMINGTON, Del., Nov 5 (Reuters) - With his re-election chances fading as more votes are counted in a handful of battleground states, U....
New confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the U.S. have climbed to an all-time high of more than 86,000 per day on average, in a glimpse of the worsening crisis that lies ahead for the winner of the ...
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason
WILMINGTON, Del./WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump falsely claimed victory over Democratic rival Joe Biden on Wednesday with millions of votes s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is vowing to ask the Supreme Court to weigh in on the inconclusive election. The Associated Press has not declared a winner in the presidential race. Trum...
By Trevor Hunnicutt and John Whitesides
WILMINGTON, Del./WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Democrat Joe Biden said he was confident of victory and President Donald Trump accused Democrats of trying to s...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump won Florida, the nation’s most prized battleground state, as he and Democrat Joe Biden on Tuesday battled to the finish of an epic campaign that will sha...
By Chris Kahn and James Oliphant Nov 3 (Reuters) - As voting sites closed throughout the United States on Tuesday, exit polls conducted by Edison Research provided some insight on major issues driv...
By Divya Chowdhury Nov 4 (Reuters) - Betting market odds on the U.S. presidential election have flipped to favour Republican President Donald Trump over Democratic candidate Joe Biden, according to ...
Trump or Biden? This map shows live voting results from the U.S. presidential election provided by AP. Information on the U.S. election map will be updated in real time to reflect the vote count in e...
In recent years summit hopefuls have been growing since the tragedy on the mountain in 2014 and its closure following the 2015 earthquake. A total of 6,507 mountaineers have climbed Everest from the N...
SEOUL (AP) — When South Korea began its delayed school year with remote learning in April, that spelled trouble for low-income students who rely on public education, get easily distracted and cannot...
ROME — Upper limits on the numbers of tourists aboard gondolas, which are one of the main features of Venice as a tourist destination in northern Italy, are scheduled to be lowered. If you expected...
LONDON/PARIS — Musicals and flamenco productions in European countries have experienced difficult times because of the adverse effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Reasons for the struggles ...
SEOUL — South Korean public prosecutors have indicted without arrest lawmaker Yoon Mee-hyang over allegations that money donated to an organization to support former so-called comfort women was misu...
SHANGHAI/TOKYO — Elementary and middle school classes conducted in the Mongolian language have been reduced in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China from September, while education ...
