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The widow of a U.S. Army sergeant killed in Niger this month said on Monday that President Donald Trump had “made me cry even worse” ...

President Donald Trump on Monday dismissed the possibility of curbing a popular tax-deferred U.S. retirement savings program to help pay for sweeping tax cuts, and ...

Seven Massachusetts police officers who got stranded in Georgia after a short hurricane relief mission to Puerto Rico have made it home thanks to a ...

A group of lawyers filed lawsuits seeking to invalidate the results of Sunday’s Lower House election for all 289 single-seat districts.The group, led by Hidetoshi ...

The 21st typhoon of the season makes an unusually quick pass over Japan, but the toll both human and material is heavy.

An unknown assailant on Monday forced his way into the office of a Russian radio station that is critical of the Kremlin and stabbed a ...

The Yokohama BayStars moved to within one win of their first Japan Series berth in 19 years with a 4-3 win over the Hiroshima Carp ...

Lawyers representing approximately 3,800 people suing the government and Tepco for damages over the 2011 Fukushima No. 1 nuclear disaster have appealed a lower court ...

China urged Japan to follow the track of peaceful development following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decisive election victory, which gives him a stronger hand to ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the ruling bloc's overwhelming victory in Sunday's election represents a "historic" level of public confidence.

Catalonia said Monday it was confident all officials including police would defy attempts by Madrid to enforce direct rule on the region, in an escalating ...

Sen. John McCain took a barely veiled jab at President Donald Trump’s avoidance of military service, sharply escalating their war of words.McCain was interviewed by ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s dog Nemo interrupted a meeting his master was having with members of his government when he urinated against a fireplace in ...

U.S. President Donald Trump told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he was delighted he’d be able to play a round of golf with world No. ...

The campaign is over, and now judgment time has come: Who were the winners and losers in Sunday’s Lower House election?

The Islamic State group killed 116 people it suspected of collaborating with the Syrian regime in al-Qaryatain this month before losing the desert town to ...

After getting a full night’s sleep, newly crowned WBA middleweight champion Ryota Murata is finally letting the seventh-round technical knockout victory sink in and speaking ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should not take the election outcome as an unqualified thumbs-up for his administration by voters.

The odds of Japan getting advantageous terms in direct talks with a U.S. president who's torn up myriad deals since January are tiny.

Japan cannot afford to slumber in pseudo-peace while leaving this issue for other nations to resolve.