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A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted again on Saturday, sending a giant ash tower nine kilometers into the sky, days after it killed nine...

South Korea’s military said North Korea disrupted GPS signals from border areas for the second-straight day on Saturday, affecting an unspec...

Federal and state authorities are investigating a wave of bigoted text messages sent anonymously that have spread alarm among Black American...

New Zealand defeated Ireland in Dublin for the first time in eight years after a surprisingly one-sided 23-13 win on Friday night.The All B...

Three people were killed and three others wounded on Friday when a suspect opened fire in an apartment in central Pennsylvania, then led pol...

Asian shares opened higher but ended Friday mixed after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates again to ease pressure on the U.S. economy....

A 44-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly selling illegal drugs to former Olympus Corp CEO Stefan Kaufmann, police said Friday.Taka...

Welcome to another episode of Japan This Week, your weekly roundup of trending news stories from Japan Today for Nov. 8, 2024.In this week'...

A self-described Nazi became the first person in Australia to be sentenced to prison for performing an outlawed salute when he was ordered b...

Victor Osimhen scored twice as Galatasaray inflicted a first Europa League defeat of the season on Tottenham with a 3-2 victory in Istanbul...

Republican leaders projected confidence Thursday that they will keep control of the U.S. House as more races were decided in their favor, wh...

One Direction star Liam Payne consumed cocaine, alcohol and a prescription antidepressant before falling to his death from a Buenos Aires ho...

Carbon pollution from private jets has soared in the past five years, with most of those small planes spewing more heat-trapping carbon diox...

Actress Michiko Yoshise attends the Keyakizaka illumination lighting ceremony in Roppongi Hills in Tokyo on Thursday night. Approximately 90...

The first time China faced Donald Trump in the White House, there was a trade war, a breach of protocol involving Taiwan’s former leader, an...

Democrats spent billions of dollars warning American voters that Donald Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy, that his economic polic...

The trial of a 55-year-old man accused of fatally stabbing a woman in a hotel in Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture, in September 2023 began at th...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a televised concession speech to the nation on Wednesday after a whirlwind campaign that failed...

Aston Villa gave away an unusual penalty for handball in its Champions League game against Club Brugge on Wednesday when defender Tyrone Min...

The verdict of U.S. voters was more decisive than most pollsters and pundits had predicted. Now the world waits to see whether the election...

Snow has finally fallen on Mount Fuji, images showed Wednesday, after warm weather led to the Japanese mountain's longest-ever stint with ba...

Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate with victories in West Virginia and Ohio on Tuesday, ensuring that Donald Trump's party will cont...

Republicans took a step toward winning control of the U.S. Senate with a victory in West Virginia on Tuesday, while neither party appeared t...

Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani had surgery on Tuesday to repair his left shoulder after it was partially dislocated in game two of the clu...

Republican Donald Trump won eight states in Tuesday's U.S. presidential election while Democrat Kamala Harris captured three states and Wash...