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FILE PHOTO: A Japan Self-Defense Forces soldier takes part in a drill to mobilise their Patriot Advanced Capability-3 missile unit © Issei Kato The deployment of US missile shield components in Japan directly affects Russia’s national security and regional interests, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a press conference with his Japanese counterpart in Tokyo. […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is seen reading a letter from South Korean President Moon Jae-in on a North Korean TV program aired Tuesday. / Yonhap  North Korean leader Kim Jong-un spoke “boldly and frankly” when he met President Moon Jae-in’s special envoys, sources said Wednesday. “The South’s high-level delegation quoted Kim as saying the […]

An explosion on Tuesday evening in Austin Texas is not related to the series of bombs that rocked the state capital. That’s according to local athorities. Police say the blast at a Goodwill charity shop was caused by an “incendiary device” — not by a package bomb, as initially reported. Assistant Chief of Police Eli […]

U.S. President Donald Trump | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images Critics say Russian President Vladimir Putin should be condemned for the nature of his Sunday election victory, but President Donald Trump didn’t mention that — or other alleged Kremlin bad behavior. By LOUIS NELSON President Donald Trump congratulated Vladimir Putin on the Russian president’s Sunday […]

Orbotech’s offices in Yavneh. (Google Street View) Yavneh-based electronics maker will keep offices in Israel after purchase by KLA-Tencor in one of country’s largest-ever deals Israeli tech firm Orbotech reached a deal Monday to be sold to a US-based manufacturer for $3.4 billion, in one of the biggest ever buyouts of an Israeli company. The California-based […]

  Family members of theindians who where killed by ISIS in Iraq (File Photo)    NEW DELHI: Iraqi authorities have found the bodies of 38 Indian construction workers abducted when Islamic State terrorists overran the northern city of Mosul more than three years ago, officials said on Tuesday.  HIGHLIGHTS The bodies were buried near the village of Badush, northwest of Mosul, […]

Photo: AFP French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy was taken into police custody once again on Tuesday for questioning by prosecutors, something the former head of state has become quite used to since leaving office. This time it’s about suitcases of cash belonging to former Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi. French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy was taken into police custody […]

According to official statistics, 21,140 people took their own lives in Japan in 2017. The thought of so many deaths is tragic enough, but it is made even worse when you consider that all of these were preventable. This month marks the time of year when suicides typically spike across the country. It’s appropriate, then, […]

Ruma Amar browsed Ikea with her husband on Saturday morning, her younger sister in tow. The young couple looked at baby cradles. They were planning to start a family. Later that evening, they went to the arcade at a bowling alley five minutes from their condo. Amar sent her elderly father updates on WhatsApp — […]

Representatives of South and North Koreas have inter-Korean talks at the border truce village of Panmunjom, Tuesday. / Courtesy of Ministry of Unificatio The two Koreas agreed Tuesday that a 160-member performance troupe from the South will perform twice in Pyongyang in April. The troupe will visit the North from March 31 to April 3 […]