Gyeonggi Province, which surrounds the capital city of South Korea, Seoul, has a population of approximately 13 million, making it the most populous local government in South Korea. It also serves as ...

Japan's agricultural, fisheries and forestry product exports in the first half of 2025 rose 15.5 percent from a year earlier to a record 809.7 billion yen, as sales in the United States increased ...

It’s only rock ‘n’ roll, but it’s messy. A guitar once played by two members of the Rolling Stones is at the center of a dispute between the band’s former guitarist Mick Taylor and the Metropolitan ...

U.S. President Donald Trump signaled Tuesday that fresh tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals and semiconductors could be unveiled within the coming week, in his ongoing push to reshape global trade.

Barcelona has opened a disciplinary proceeding against Marc-André ter Stegen saying the goalkeeper refused to sign a medical report about his back injury, according to a person with knowledge of the ...

President Donald Trump is establishing a task force on the 2028 Olympic Games being held in Los Angeles. Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday to make the task force official, the White House ...

Violent crime in the United States fell 4.5% last year, according to a new FBI report, which also shows an 8% drop in property crime from the year before. The FBI statistics released Tuesday show ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met senior security officials to finalize a new strategy for the nearly two-year war in Gaza, his office said on Tuesday, with media reporting he favored a ...

About one in four employees has a diagnosable mental health condition, and up to 65 percent say mental health concerns interfere with their ability to work. The economic toll is staggering. In the ...

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Eighty years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a dwindling number of the aging Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance of nuclear ...

A Japanese publisher has apologized for running a column in its weekly magazine last month that was criticized as discriminatory toward people with foreign roots and for promoting xenophobia. In the ...