Matsuri Takahashi’s dream career at Japan’s top ad agency, Dentsu, ended with her suicide as her overtime pushed past 100 hours a month. “I’m emotionless and only wish to sleep,”…
continue readingFederal officials said Thursday a new contract being used to address concerns about foreign fishing crews in Hawaii’s longline commercial fleet is not within their jurisdiction to enforce, leaving the…
continue readingRussia has summoned the Belgian ambassador to Moscow in a dispute over the Kremlin’s claim that Belgian warplanes killed Syrian villagers. …
continue readingHotels in Moscow and Russia’s second-largest city, St. Petersburg, will increase prices for foreigners in the next tourist season, according to a Russian tourism official. …
continue readingThe wildlife-trade monitoring network TRAFFIC warns that hundreds of endangered snow leopards are being killed illegally each year across the high mountain ranges of Asia. …
continue readingU.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said he would stress the need to respect Iraq’s sovereignty during a visit on October 21 to Turkey. …
continue readingThe mayor of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, has pledged to publicize the names of those who apply for divorces in an attempt to keep married couples together. …
continue readingA powerful earthquake has hit western Japan. The 6.6-magnitude quake with a shallow depth of 10 kilometers struck Tottori, a prefecture on the Sea of Japan, Friday afternoon. The earthquake’s…
continue readingRed banners line the winding road that leads up to the Lotte Skyhill Country Club in rural Seongju County. Some of the signs read “We Oppose THAAD” and “THAAD Must…
continue readingA suicide attack on an Iranian-run construction site in the town of Dibis in northern Iraq Friday killed at least 11 people, while six Iraqi police and 12 Islamic State…
continue readingThe Russian military has continued to press its claim that a Belgian air strike killed six Syrian villagers despite Belgium’s demand for a retraction. …
continue readingAuthorities in the Russian city of St. Petersburg have closed the high-profile case of a Tajik child’s death in the city’s custody. …
continue readingMilitants armed with assault rifles and explosives have attacked targets in and around the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk in an assault claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. …
continue readingVisitors had a rare glimpse of one the world’s largest and most beautiful floor mosaics in the West Bank on Thursday. Covering more than 800 square meters, the mosaic was…
continue readingPakistan has imposed a blanket ban on Bollywood films and other Indian content on its television networks and radio stations amid increasing tension between the two nuclear-armed rivals over Kashmir.…
continue readingRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed Thursday he will accept the outcome of the November 8th U.S. election, provided he is the winner. Trump’s comment came the day after the…
continue readingTop U.S. economic officials say they are puzzled that efforts to keep prices stable and unemployment low have not gone as experts expected. The U.S. central bank has cut interest…
continue readingDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he is not optimistic about reaching a deal that would pave the way for a trade agreement between the European Union and Ukraine, which…
continue readingEuropean Union heads of state continue their summit Friday in Brussels, where the EU’s response to Russia’s bombing campaign in Syria is high on the agenda. Syrian government forces began…
continue readingIn a glittery presentation, the richest man in China, real estate magnate and entertainment mogul Wang Jianlin of the Dalian Wanda Group, made his pitch in Los Angeles this week…
continue readingEuropean Union leaders have pledged to keep all options open to respond to atrocities committed in Syria by Russia and President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, but stopped short of explicitly threatening…
continue readingFilipinos largely continue to support U.S. military aid despite a string of anti-America comments from their new president, polls and interviews show, and some worry about his proposal for an…
continue readingThe Democratic Republic of Congo has delayed the presidential elections slated for next month by nearly two years. The United Nations has warned that tensions could lead to more violence,…
continue readingTajikistan began joint antiterror drills with China on October 20 near the border with Afghanistan as part of Beijing’s drive to boost security in the region. …
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