Japanese premier unfazed at request by atomic bomb survivors that Japan should participate in Meeting of States Parties to Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons - Anadolu Ajansı

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on Friday urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to decide on Japan's participation as an observer at a me

Pyongyang's first test-fire of 2025 came as Blinken, America's top diplomat, met with South Korea's acting President Choi Sang-mok. Choi assumed the interim role after the South Korean Parliament voted to impeach a second president in two weeks.

The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki want the Japanese government to attend an upcoming meeting about the United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons as an observer.

Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese atomic bomb survivors' group that won last year's Nobel Peace Prize, urged the government on Wednesday t

North Korea claimed to have carried out a successful test-firing of a new hypersonic intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) on Monday, with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who observed the firing from a video feed,

“Over the course of next year, Putin will likely face mounting domestic problems. Russia’s central bank has forecast economic growth of 0.5 to 1.5 per cent in 2025, down from 3.5 to 4 per cent in 2024, suggesting that the wartime boom may have run its course.”

Manila would be able to raise South China Sea-related issues that could 'embarrass' Beijing and nudge it into a compromise, analysts say A seat on the UN Security Council would give the Philippines its highest-profile platform yet to confront Beijing over its expansive claims in the South China Sea.

A man fatally shot two prominent hard-line judges in Iran's capital Saturday, officials said, both of whom allegedly took part in the mass execution of dissidents in 1988. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the shootings of the judges,

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A South Korean court on Sunday extended President Yoon Suk Yeol's detention for up to 20 days, citing concern he could destroy evidence in a criminal probe into his short-lived declaration of ...