Japan has decided to freeze assets of an additional 17 Russian individuals, bringing the total number targeted by sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine to 61, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday.
Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has controversially suggested his country should consider allowing the US to base nuclear weapons in his country, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's most beloved singers, whose voice is the soundtrack to more than a thousand Bollywood films, has died aged 92.
China has joined Russia in opposing further Nato expansion as the two countries move closer together in the face of Western pressure.
North Korea's renewed flurry of missile tests have, so far, been met here in Tokyo with a bit of shrug.
North Korea has fired a suspected ballistic missile, less than a week after it launched what it claimed was a hypersonic missile.
At least 21 people have died after heavy snow trapped them in their vehicles in northern Pakistan.
Russian-led forces have arrived in Kazakhstan at the request of the country's authoritarian leader, amid a crackdown on anti-government protests.
North Korea successfully tested a hypersonic missile on Wednesday, its first major weapons test this year, said a state media report.
Taiwan is a "wanderer" that will eventually come home and not a chess piece to be played with, the Chinese government's top diplomat said on Monday, reaffirming Beijing's determination to bring the island under its control.
Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
Donald Trump has confirmed that he will not take part in Republican presidential debates with his rivals in the race for the White House.