India is taking a more direct role in efforts to end the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, engaging both sides on issues including shipping and reducing hostilities, External Affairs Minister S. Ja...

Customs and Border Protection claimed that construction on a border security project in Big Bend National Park in Texas was limited to “survey and design” work. Visual Investigations’ satellite specia...

Myanmar is among the world’s most commodity-rich nations. For five years, it has been riven by brutal fighting over land, self-determination and money.

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The US will soon announce what it bills as unprecedented economic measures against Iran, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, intensifying the Trump administration’s effort to force Tehran’s capitul...

The country built one of the world’s largest zoo networks during decades of growth. Now inflation and population decline are putting it under pressure.

Operating out of a Tokyo high-rise, a military intelligence unit finds the high-tech equipment that Russia needs to wage war.

Until the US and Israel launched a war on Iran, prompting Tehran to close the Strait of Hormuz, ships transiting the world’s most important artery for trading oil and liquefied natural gas didn’t pay ...

China’s test this week of a submarine-fired ballistic missile may mark the beginning of more regular Pacific launches as the country advances its arsenal for delivering nuclear warheads, unsettling go...

China’s military appeared to give its first glimpse of a new fighter aircraft widely believed to be a sixth-generation prototype that could eventually rival advanced stealth warplanes under developmen...

China has built a new US destroyer replica at a remote missile-testing site in its northwestern desert, satellite imagery shows, a target analysts say could be used to test anti-ship weapons.

Support in the neighborhood for Team Melli isn’t universal, and is even a recipe for potential conflict.

Satellite imagery appears to show construction at a square in central Pyongyang that has served as a focal point for visits by foreign leaders, fueling speculation that Chinese President Xi Jinping ma...

A flurry of Vietnamese island fortifications and intensifying Chinese activity show the rising odds of confrontation in the South China Sea.

Singapore’s foreign minister held talks with a top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a rare visit to Pyongyang, urging the isolated state to keep channels for dialogue open with the outside w...

Japan has long relied on innovation to beat the heat. From the invention of sensu fans that could be folded up into a kimono in the Heian era more than 1,200 years ago, to parasols which in recent yea...

Plus 5 questions with MLB's first Slovakian-born player since 1961 and more timely and timeless elements of baseball.

An Oklahoma man who has narrowly avoided execution three separate times could walk free from a county jail after a judge agreed to grant him bond while awaiting retrial.

China appears to have ramped up missile production last year by the most since Xi Jinping became president, according to a Bloomberg analysis that mapped out the sector’s finances for the first time.

When Donald Trump’s plane touches down in Beijing, he’ll become the first sitting US president to visit China in nearly a decade. His two-day summit with Xi Jinping extends a personal relationship tha...

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US Central Command has asked to send the Army’s long-delayed Dark Eagle hypersonic missile to the Middle East for possible use against Iran, seeking a longer-range system to hit ballistic-missile laun...

The nation’s ascent from a rogue state to a full-fledged atomic power means it may soon have a globally relevant deterrent.

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The nation’s ascent from a rogue state to a full-fledged atomic power means it may soon have a globally relevant deterrent.

Over the last several decades, scientist-bred mild jalapeños have taken over the market. What’s a spice lover to do?

US President Donald Trump’s plan for a full naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz threatens to deepen an already unprecedented crisis in one of the world’s most important energy-producing regions.

For a Japanese company, few marketing moves deliver more impact than tapping into Shohei Ohtani’s star power — and Uniqlo is doing exactly that through a sponsorship with his team, the Los Angeles Dod...

San Antonio businessman Frank Liberto created the cheesy, spicy concession that would change the game forever.

The UK will interdict and board Russian “shadow fleet” vessels in its waters, increasing European pressure on Moscow over tankers exporting sanctioned crude in transactions that help fund the Kremlin’...

A mystery craft has been spotted in China resembling a vehicle designed to avoid radar by flying just a few meters above the sea, suggesting Beijing may be experimenting with a Soviet-era model the US...

A mystery craft has been spotted in China resembling a vehicle designed to avoid radar by flying just a few meters above the sea, suggesting Beijing may be experimenting with a Soviet-era model the US...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he discussed the “serious situation in the region” with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, as New Delhi looks for ways to secure the safe passage of tankers ...

As the conflict extends towards a third week, an arsenal of attack drones and ballistic missiles has helped make Tehran unlike any adversary the US has faced.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is poised to drop anti-graft chief Azam Baki after a probe into his shareholdings, people familiar with the matter said.

The US torpedoing of an Iranian warship in international waters off Sri Lanka’s coast signals an alarming turn in the war unfolding more than 2,000 miles (3,000 km) away in the Middle East.

The US submarine strike on an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean marked a sharp escalation in the war between the two nations, raising fresh security and economic risks for governments across the Ind...

Mototsugu Kashiwada has watched baseball for free on TV almost his whole life from his hometown of Hanamaki in northern Japan, where superstar Shohei Ohtani played high school baseball. When he learne...

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Mototsugu Kashiwada has watched baseball for free on TV almost his whole life from his hometown of Hanamaki in northern Japan, where superstar Shohei Ohtani played high school baseball. When he learne...

The US and Israeli airstrikes that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have created the biggest power vacuum since the country’s 1979 revolution. A temporary council has been appoint...

A commission set up to fight graft is allegedly helping a group of businessmen seize control of companies. Questions about its conduct go all the way to the top.

Malaysian anti-corruption chief Azam Baki held millions of shares in a financial-services company, a corporate filing shows, the first public disclosure of a major stake in his name since an uproar ov...

Trump Derangement Syndrome, or TDS, is the shorthand for the vehement dislike that US President Donald Trump can trigger in his opponents, leading them into illogical or inconsistent positions . Get r...

China’s armed forces are in the midst of one of the most sweeping shakeups of the Xi Jinping era, with a steady stream of senior generals vanishing from public view or being formally purged. A corrupt...

Endemic corruption in the Bangladesh-Malaysia migrant worker system is enriching some, while trapping the hopeful in a punishing economy of exploitation.

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The family of Altantuya Shaariibuu, who was murdered in 2006 by two bodyguards assigned to protect officials including former Malaysian premier Najib Razak, lost their bid for damages from the Malaysi...

President Donald Trump called a New York Stock Exchange equities trading outpost in Texas “an UNBELIEVABLY BAD THING” for New York and a “big test” for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who took office earlier th...