Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday proposed direct talks with Ukraine on May 15 in Istanbul that he said should be aimed at bringing a durable peace and eliminating the root causes of the war.

White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, ...

The Sapporo District Public Prosecutors Office has decided to have a 43-year-old man arrested on suspicion of killing his 10-year-old son undergo a psychiatric evaluation to determine if he is ...

Three Chinese men have been arrested for alleged possession of several thousand protected hermit crabs in the southwestern Japan city of Amami, police said. Liao Zhibin, 24, Song Zhenhao, 26, and Guo ...

Some 39 percent of people in Japan feel lonely at times, according to a recent government survey, with legislation that took effect in April last year to address isolation apparently not yet having a ...

Emperor Emeritus Akihito was discharged from a Tokyo hospital on Saturday after undergoing medical tests for a heart condition. The 91-year-old was diagnosed with myocardial ischemia -- reduced blood ...

A South Korean temple that claimed ownership of a 14th-century Buddha statue stolen from a Japanese temple in 2012 handed it over to the Japanese owner on Saturday. While the statue, taken by South ...

James Foley, a journeyman director best known for “Glengarry Glen Ross,” has died. He was 71. He died earlier this week after a yearlong battle with brain cancer, his representative, Taylor Lomax, ...

Google will pay $1.4 billion to Texas to settle claims the company collected users' data without permission, the state’s attorney general has announced. In 2022, Attorney General Ken Paxton sued ...

British cyclist Joshua Tarling beat pre-race favorite Primoz Roglic by a solitary second in an individual time trial to win the second stage of the Giro d’Italia on Saturday. Roglic moved into the ...

During his nine years living in Tennessee, Fahd, a Saudi national, found comfort and consistency at Dunkin Donuts, where he placed the same order every day. Now back in Riyadh, Fahd is doing something ...

Canada opened the ice hockey world championship by shutting out newcomer Slovenia 4-0 on Saturday. Bo Horvat scored two power-play goals, Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and two assists and Noah Dobson ...