Japan announced on Friday that it decided not to send a government delegation to the Beijing Winter Games.
Instead, Japan Olympic Committee President Yasuhiro Yamashita and Seiko Hashimoto, President of the...
South Korea says it will grant a special pardon to former President Park Geun-hye, who is serving a lengthy prison term for a series of corruption charges. The Justice Ministry said Friday that Park's pardon...
Ukraine on Thursday firmly denied suggestions by Russian President Vladimir Putin that it was preparing an offensive against rebels in the east to reunite the country.
The comments came after Putin claimed that...
Police in San Antonio are searching for a 3-year-old girl who was last seen Monday evening at an apartment complex playground. Authorities don't yet know whether the child wandered away from the...
More than 450 people have been rescued in five different operations in the southern Mediterranean sea, Doctors Without Borders said Thursday.
The NGO said 458 rescued people are now on board of their ship....
Pope Francis urged Vatican cardinals, bishops and bureaucrats Thursday to embrace humility this Christmas season, saying their pride, self-interest and the "glitter of our armor" was perverting their...
Former President Donald Trump turned to the Supreme Court Thursday in an effort to keep documents away from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
A federal appeals...
At the Christmas market in Brussels, where more than 225 wood cabins have been installed, traders said the closure would cost them money they could ill afford.
The Christmas market had been scheduled to run...
China on Thursday redoubled efforts to control new virus outbreaks with a lockdown of the 13 million residents in the northern city of Xi'an, following a spike in coronavirus cases.
The measure comes just...
SAC Vice-Chairman of the State Administration Council Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win, in his capacity as Chairman of the Illegal Trade Eradication Steering Committee, presided over the 1/2021...