Japan's population has declined in all of its 47 prefectures for the first time in a record drop, while its population of foreign residents reached a new high of almost 3 million people, highlighting the increasing role that non-Japanese...
Longtime Cambodian leader Hun Sen says will step down in three weeks as prime minister and hand the position to his oldest sonPHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Longtime Cambodian leader Hun Sen said Wednesday he will step down in three weeks...
Greece remained on "high alert" for wildfires on Wednesday, when high temperatures were again expected, the Greek Fire Service said.LONDON -- As wildfire flames crept toward Zena Katsaros' home in Kiotari, a village...
A surge of wounded soldiers has coincided with the major counteroffensive Ukraine launched in June to try to recapture its land from Russian forcesDNIPRO, Ukraine -- The horrors of war arrive through the night at a hospital in eastern...
Typhoon Doksuri has slammed an island and lashed northern Philippine provinces with ferocious wind and rain, displacing nearly 16,000 villagers as it blows tin roofs off rural houses, floods low-lying villages and knocks out powerMANILA,...
Nearly 100 pilot whales have stranded themselves on a beach in western Australia, and about half had died by Wednesday morning, despite the efforts of wildlife experts and volunteers to save themPERTH, Australia -- Nearly 100 pilot...
Reports from Myanmar say its military-controlled government plans to transfer the country’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi from a prison in the capital of Naypyitaw to home confinement as part of an act of of clemency to be granted...
The first panda ever born in France bid farewell to the French zoo where it grew up and set off Tuesday for its new home in ChinaPARIS -- Ensconced in a glass cage lined with bamboo shoots, the first panda ever born in France bid ‘’adieu’’...
Police and transport authorities say two buses collided at the entrance to a South African university, injuring at least 77 people, two of them seriouslyJOHANNESBURG -- Two buses collided at the entrance to a South African university...
Ecuador President Guillermo Lasso is again making use of the executive’s power to suspend some of people’s rights and mobilize the military in an attempt to quell the most recent spike in violence in the South American countryQUITO,...
Trevor Reed, has been injured while fighting in Ukraine, according to an official. Trevor Reed, the former U.S. Marine who was wrongfully detained in Russia before being released in a prisoner swap, has been injured while fighting...
A Russian fighter jet fired flares directly at an American MQ-9 Reaper drone over Syria on Sunday, damaging its propeller, according to U.S. Air Forces Central A Russian fighter jet fired flares directly at an American MQ-9 Reaper...
Private Travis King’s state -- and what North Korea might want for him -- remains a mystery a week after his detention. In the week since U.S. Army Private 2nd Class Travis King crossed into North Korea, American officials have been...
Thousands of Israeli doctors walked out of work, labor leaders threatened a general strike and senior justices rushed home from a trip abroadJERUSALEM -- Thousands of Israeli doctors walked out of work, labor leaders threatened a general...
Japanese police say they have arrested a woman and her parents in a beheading case in a popular night entertainment district in Japan’s northern city of Sapporo, where a headless man was found in a hotel room three weeks agoTOKYO...
China has removed the country's outspoken foreign minister, Qin Gang, from office and replaced him with his predecessor, Wang YiBEIJING -- China removed outspoken Foreign Minister Qin Gang from office on Tuesday and replaced him...
Indonesian police are investigating the illegal trade in human organs involving police and immigration officers who were accused of helping traffickers send 122 Indonesians to a hospital in Cambodia to sell their kidneysJAKARTA, Indonesia...
European Union agriculture ministers are meeting to discuss ways of moving grain vital to global food security out of Ukraine after Russia halted a deal that allowed the exportsBRUSSELS -- European Union agriculture ministers met Tuesday...
Weather conditions are keeping the Mexican Navy from approaching the capsized sailboat of a missing U.S. citizen.Weather conditions are keeping the Mexican Navy from approaching the capsized sailboat of a U.S. citizen who was reported...
South Korea’s Constitutional Court has overturned the impeachment of the public safety minister ousted over a Halloween crowd surge that killed nearly 160 people last October at a nightlife district in the capital, SeoulSEOUL, South...
Two teachers in eastern Germany say they spent months unsuccessfully trying to counter the far-right atmosphere at their small town high schoolBURG, Germany -- Two teachers in eastern Germany tried to counter the far-right activities...
