Japan scrambled fighter jets after Russian aircraft flew around the archipelago for the first time in five years, Tokyo said Friday. From Thursday morning to afternoon, the Russian Tu-142 aircraft flew from the sea between Japan and South Korea toward the southern Okinawa region,

Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has named the nine candidates who will run in a leadership race scheduled for September 27 to replace Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, whose three-year term was tarnished by scandals. The record number of contenders named on Thursday

Thousands of people have been evacuated from Vietnam’s capital Hanoi as the Red River’s waters rose to a 20-year high, flooding streets days after Typhoon Yagi battered the country’s north, killing at least 179 people. Asia’s most powerful typhoon this year,

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says six of its employees have been killed in an Israeli air strike on one of the schools it runs in central Gaza. Gaza's Civil Defence spokesperson Mahmud Bassal said 18 people were killed in the strike on al-Jaouni school in Nuseirat refugee

Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and her Republican rival Donald Trump met face to face for the first time ever in Tuesday’s presidential debate at 9pm US Eastern time (01:00 GMT) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The debate arrives eight weeks ahead of the United States general

At least 127 people have now died and 54 others are missing in northern Vietnam, according to officials, as a super typhoon which hit on Saturday continues to bring heavy rainfall, landslides and flooding. Thousands of people were seen stranded on rooftops in some northern provinces,

The former president questions why Harris has not put her campaign plans into action while in power at the White House. “She’s going to do all these wonderful things,” Trump said. “Why hasn’t she done it? She’s been there for three and a half years.

Manipur remained on the boil on Tuesday with an indefinite curfew being imposed in Imphal West and Imphal East and prohibitory orders under Section 163 (2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Suraksha Sanhita being imposed in Thoubal. This action came a day after student protests demanding

At least 40 people have been killed in southern Gaza and dozens more injured in Israeli strikes on a designated humanitarian zone, the Hamas-run Civil Defence authority has said. The Israeli military said its aircraft attacked an operations centre in Khan Younis belonging to Hamas

Presidential debates matter in American politics. And the one that takes place on Tuesday night between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris – their only currently scheduled face-off – may matter more than most. Joe Biden’s poor performance in the first presidential debate

At least 48 people have been killed in the central Nigerian state of Niger, after a fuel tanker collided with a lorry carrying passengers and cattle, the country's disaster agency said. The Niger State Emergency Management Agency said the collision happened at about 00:30 local

At least 14 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on a number of military sites in central Syria, the Syrian state news agency reports. Sana cited a hospital director as saying that another 43 people were wounded in the attacks in the vicinity of Masyaf, in Hama province, on

Yet again the incursion by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in Indian territory in Kapapu area in Arunachal Pradesh has given shock wave to the Indian counterpart. According to reports, PLA entered upto 60 kilometers inside Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh. They

The Venezuelan government said Saturday opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia — in hiding after he challenged President Nicolas Maduro’s disputed reelection — has left the country, seeking asylum in Spain. “After taking refuge voluntarily at the Spanish

CIA Director Bill Burns and UK MI6 chief Richard Moore warned on Saturday that the world order was “under threat in a way we haven’t seen since the cold war”. Writing in a Financial Times op-ed, the two spy chiefs said “we have no more trusted or esteemed

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Islamic countries should form an alliance against what he called “the growing threat of expansionism” from Israel. He made the comment after describing what Palestinian and Turkish officials said was the killing by Israeli

The United Nations has called for a "full investigation" into the killing of a US-Turkish woman in the occupied West Bank during a protest on Friday. Local media reported that Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot dead by Israeli forces as she took part in a weekly protest against

The army on Thursday hinted at a military trial for former prime minister Imran Khan, warning that using military personnel for personal or political gains invites legal action. “Under military law, anyone who uses individuals subject to the Army Act for personal or political

At least 17 pupils have died after a school in central Kenya caught fire on Thursday night, police said. There are fears that the death toll could rise as more than a dozen others have been taken to hospital with severe burns. The cause of the fire at Hillside Endarasha Primary in

Bahrain has pardoned hundreds of inmates, the second major amnesty in months, as the Gulf state moves to ease lingering tensions from its crushing of Arab Spring pro-democracy protests. Scores of prisoners were released from a notorious Bahrain jail on Thursday following a royal pardon