The United States flew a B-1B supersonic bomber over South Korea yesterday as part of a massive combined aerial exercise involving hundreds of warplanes, a clear warning
Myanmar’s Rohingya minority has “very likely” faced crimes against humanity and possibly genocide at the hands of Myanmar security forces and their helpers, the U.N.’s top human
Australia will ban foreign interference in its politics — either through espionage or financial donations — in a move motivated largely by Russia’s alleged involvement in
Rahul Gandhi, the scion of India’s Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, submitted nomination papers to succeed his mother as president of the main opposition Congress party, which previously
A senior United Nations official arrived in Pyongyang yesterday for a rare, four-day visit at the invitation of the North Korean government. Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey
North Korea’s national football teams have arrived in Tokyo as an exception to Japanese sanctions against Pyongyang’s missile and nuclear development. North Korea is competing against
Two types of New Zealand kiwi birds are a rare bright spot in a mostly grim assessment of global species at risk of extinction. The International
Kim. Nuclear. War. Nothing sums up the message embedded in North Korea’s propaganda better than those three words. That’s exactly what the world hears — and what’s
Hundreds of aircraft including two dozen stealth jets began training yesterday as the United States and South Korea launched a massive combined air force exercise.
A second airline has reported seeing North Korea’s latest missile test during a flight last week. Cathay Pacific says the crew on a San Francisco-to-Hong Kong
Three bodies and a dilapidated wooden boat believed to have come from North Korea washed ashore in northern Japan yesterday, coast guard officials said.
Bali’s glowering Mount Agung has seemingly quieted since hurling huge columns of ash from its crater a week ago, but some villagers on the Indonesian island who
An official from the Korea Coast Guard said seven people were rescued and the two missing included the boat’s captain. He said 22 people were aboard
A strong cyclone over the southeast Arabian Sea triggered heavy rains and strong winds in southern India, damaging hundreds of huts, power lines and trees and killing at least
Pope Francis has gotten into trouble before for ditching diplomatic protocol and calling a spade a spade, most famously when he labeled the Ottoman-era slaughter of Armenians a
Geoffrey Rush announced Saturday he’s stepping down as president of Australia’s screen industry academy, days after a theater company revealed it had received a complaint
Japan’s much admired Emperor Akihito is set to abdicate on April 30, 2019, at age 85 in the first such departure from the Chrysanthemum Throne in about
Pope Francis arrived yesterday in Bangladesh for the second leg of his six-day trip to Asia with the Rohingya crisis looming large. Francis arrived in the
Japanese authorities yesterday inspected a decrepit boat with 10 men aboard identifying themselves as North Koreans drifting in rough seas off the northern island of Hokkaido.
After two and a half months of relative quiet, North Korea launched its most powerful weapon yet early yesterday, claiming a new type of intercontinental ballistic
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