WASHINGTON -- George Glass, the Oregon real estate developer tapped by President Donald Trump to be U.S. ambassador to Japan, told Senate lawmakers on Thursday that he will press Tokyo to increase the ...

WASHINGTON -- George Glass, the Oregon real estate developer tapped by President Donald Trump to be U.S. ambassador to Japan, told Senate lawmakers on Thursday that he will press Tokyo to increase the ...

SYDNEY/PALAU -- As Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service makes global geopolitical headlines, the tiny Pacific country of Niue has sent its nearly 2,000 residents and Musk a strong alert of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -- President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia supported a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -- President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia agreed with U.S. proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine but that any truce would have to deal with the root causes of the ...

Japan's Ibuki and Ibuki 2 satellites now track greenhouse gas levels in Mongolia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan -- areas that include significant reserves of oil, gas and coal.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -- Belgian prosecutors said on Thursday they had detained several individuals over suspected bribery in the European Parliament allegedly for the benefit of China's Huawei.

TOKYO -- Japanese health officials will soon open the doors wider for foreign health workers to provide in-home nursing care, Nikkei has learned, in a bid to ease the labor shortage in the field.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday admitted that he handed out gift vouchers to rookie lawmakers of his Liberal Democratic Party earlier in the month but said the practice does ...

TOKYO -- Japanese trading house Itochu will invest in a uranium mining project in Uzbekistan, expecting higher demand for the ...

The accident occurred in late February in the Yellow Sea off the coast of China, Yonhap reported, citing a confidential ...