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Residents look at a collapsed house in Atsuma, Hokkaido, on Thursday afternoon.  Photo: KYODO TOKYO A powerful earthquake paralyzed Hokkaido on Thursday, killing at least nine people, triggering landslides and knocking out power to its 5.3 million residents. The death toll from the 6.7-magnitude, pre-dawn quake was likely to rise as rescuers searched houses buried by landslides. About […]

British prosecutors on Wednesday charged two Russians for the attempted murder of a former Russian spy and his daughter with a nerve agent, naming suspects for the first time in a case that has caused one of the biggest East-West rifts in decades. Sergei Skripal, a former Russian military intelligence officer who betrayed dozens of […]

KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 18 people were killed and 50 others wounded in a suicide attack on a sports club in central capital Kabul on Wednesday, police said. Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai told Pajhwok Afghan News that police had cordoned off the area after the blast that took place in the limits of the sixth police district […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said intense diplomatic efforts are underway with Assad’s main supporters, Russia and Iran, to avoid escalations in Idlib. President Erdoğan urged de-escalation in Idlib, Syria amid possible attacks by the Assad regime, saying that it would cause a humanitarian catastrophe, lead to the massacre of civilians and a new refugee wave […]

Thomas Kwesi Quartey, deputy chairperson of the African Union Commission, addresses the Forum on African Energy Interconnection Development in Beijing BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) — China and African countries agreed to work together toward an even stronger community with a shared future, according to a declaration adopted Tuesday at the 2018 Beijing Summit of the […]

EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger. Photo: John Thys/AFP The European Union is under threat from some of its own members, including Italy, EU Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger has warned. “In my view, the project is in mortal danger,” Oettinger told an event in Brussels on Tuesday night, according to Politico. As well as outside opponents such […]

President Moon Jae-in’s special envoy delegation, led by National Security Office chief Chung Eui-yong, third from right, bow before boarding a plane for Pyongyang, at Seoul Airport in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Wednesday. / Yonhap President Moon Jae-in’s special envoys visited Pyongyang, Wednesday, for crucial discussions over a scheduled inter-Korean summit this month as well as […]

Chinese and African officials have rejected criticism of Beijing’s development projects on the continent as they ended a summit that included a $60bn pledge for more aid to the continent. President Xi Jinping hosted leaders from across Africa amid questions about whether his country’s Belt and Road global trade infrastructure initiative is worsening debt problems in some countries. “Everything we do […]

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — A very strong typhoon brought heavy rain and strong winds across Kinki and Shikoku regions of western Japan, and Tokai and Hokuriku regions on Tuesday, killing one person in the Kinki region. Typhoon No. 21 landed in the southern part of Tokushima Prefecture in the Shikoku region around noon. It made […]

The mothers on their nightly patrols of Rinkeby, Sweden. [Al Jazeera] Across Europe, the far right is on the rise and it has some of the continent’s most diverse communities in its crosshairs. To the far right, these neighbourhoods are ‘no-go zones’ that challenge their notion of what it means to be European. To those who live […]