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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday announced plans to seek the first-ever changes to Japan's post-war pacifist constitution and said ...

The first freight train to link China directly to the UK arrived in the eastern Chinese city of Yiwu Saturday ...

British Prime Minister Theresa May assured Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe on Friday that the UK remains "steadfast" in its condemnation ...

Actor and hockey player Michael Mantenuto, best known for his role in Disney’s 2004 sports drama “Miracle,” has died. He ...

Latvian lawmakers Thursday voted to grant citizenship to renowned ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov, who defected to the United States while ...

China has launched a new aircraft carrier, boosting its military presence amid rising tensions in the region. It is the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Russia this week for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin and ...

Syria's Tabqa, which US-backed forces entered Monday, is doubly strategic: it lies on the road to the Islamic State group's ...

Pope Francis has described some of Europe's holding centres for migrants and refugees as concentration camps. The Roman Catholic leader ...

Russia tried to use Trump advisers to infiltrate campaign The FBI gathered intelligence last summer that suggests Russian operatives tried ...

Russia's Supreme Court has accepted the government's request to designate Jehovah's Witnesses as an outlawed religious group, deeming it to ...

Before tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians marched before him, along with some of the most fearsome weapons at ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has denied ordering last week's suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town, believes his victory ...

Russia's Supreme Court has begun hearing a government request to outlaw the Jehovah's Witnesses and declare it an extremist organisation. ...

Legendary US documentary maker Ken Burns's new 18-hour television history of the Vietnam war is a "visceral" experience which will ...

The Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko has died of heart failure in the United States at the age of 84. Yevtushenko ...

The top US general in Europe said on Thursday he has seen growing Russian influence on the Afghan Taliban, and ...

Russia is "perhaps" supplying the Taliban as they fight US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, a top US general said ...

Sweden is set to bring hundreds of Cold War-era nuclear bunkers out of mothballs as tensions with Russia in the ...

It was a top-secret Chinese nuclear facility with a deadly Cold War mission -- to make plutonium for an atomic ...