Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella has asked his ally U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend tariffs to help the South American nation recover from a powerful earthquake that killed at ...

More than 200,000 utility customers were without power across Hawaii at midday on Sundayafter Hurricane Lala brushed the Big Island before being downgraded to a tropical storm.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday instructed the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” 10 days of joint military exercises with South Korea as they were about to get underway, citing the cost of the ...

Japan’s economy grew slower than expected in April-June, government data showed on Monday, as private consumption softened due to headwinds from higher raw material costs and supply disruptions linked ...

Rescue teams in eastern Indonesia recovered six more bodies Sunday, a day after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, raising the death toll to 53, authorities said, as many of the thousands of displaced people ...

At rock music festival venues across Japan, it is becoming increasingly common for organizers to set up areas where concertgoers can pay for someone to watch their children for a little while. This ...

The government this month established a new unit within the Cabinet Office to support startups with technologies that can be used in government programs, including those related to disaster ...

Children howled with joy in Japanese and Chinese while playing baseball in humid mid-July weather at a field in Guangzhou in southern China.

Ruling and opposition parties appear to be getting close to a shared understanding on establishing a state of emergency clause in the Constitution to prepare for major disasters and other such events.

Preventing online defamation is an urgent priority. Yet, major social media platform operators are neglecting to take appropriate action, posing a serious problem. The government should further ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 struck Kumamoto, Kyushu, at around 3:39 p.m. on Monday. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, a seismic scale of 3 was observed in Yatsushiro, and a ...

Numerous fishing boats set sail from ports in Fujian Province as a fishing ban imposed by China on its vessels in the East China Sea, including the waters around the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa ...