Japan on Tuesday fully transitioned to a system that integrates health insurance card functions into the My Number identification cards, even as challenges remain in expanding its use. While existing ...

China and Japan gave conflicting versions of a maritime confrontation involving their coast guards and a Japanese fishing vessel around the disputed Senkaku islands on Tuesday. China's Coast Guard ...

Chiba Prefectural Police have arrested a Chinese man in his 30s after an incident at Tokyo DisneySea Hotel MiraCosta in Urayasu City, Chiba Prefecture, on Monday night. According to police, the ...

Governments and aid groups in Indonesia and Sri Lanka worked to rush aid Tuesday to hundreds of thousands stranded by deadly flooding that has killed around 1,200 people in four countries. Torrential ...

The draw for the men's 2027 Rugby World Cup takes place in Sydney on Wednesday. It will be the biggest Rugby World Cup, with 24 teams, compared to 20 in recent editions. AFP Sport looks at how the ...

The White House said Monday that a Navy admiral ordered a second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea and insists that a September attack that has come under bipartisan scrutiny was ...

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that three of his New York offices were targeted with emailed bomb threats from an email address alleging the “2020 election was rigged.” Schumer ...

European leaders rallied to show support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday after U.S.-Ukrainian talks to revise a peace proposal that initially favored Russia, while the U.S. envoy ...

Japan and Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani has recently established a foundation, joining many top sporting figures in the United States in making the move with his aimed at offering ...

Cuba on Monday confirmed the deaths of 33 people from mosquito-borne illnesses in recent months in an epidemic that has hit at least one-third of the population, according to official reports. Deputy ...

Police spoke to Luigi Mangione in a McDonald's restaurant for more than 30 minutes before arresting him for allegedly gunning down a UnitedHealthcare executive, according to videos played on Monday ...

Pretax profits at Japanese companies in the July-September period rose 19.7 percent from a year earlier to 27.54 trillion yen, marking a fourth straight quarterly increase, driven by strong demand in ...