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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will visit France, Brazil and Paraguay next week as his nation seeks to boost ties with Latin America. The six-day itinerary will see…

As Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming opens for the busy summer season, wildlife advocates are leading a call for a boycott of the conservative ranching state over laws…

Philippine forces killed an Abu Sayyaf militant, who had been implicated in past beheadings, including of 10 Filipino marines and two kidnapped Vietnamese, in a clash in the…

Flooding and heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 70 people since mid-March, a government spokesperson said Friday, twice as many as were reported earlier this week.…

King Charles III is back. The 75-year-old monarch will resume his public duties next week following a three-month break to focus on his treatment and recuperation after he…

Tennessee teachers and staff will be allowed to carry concealed handguns on public school grounds under legislation signed into law by Gov. Bill Lee on Friday. Lee, a…

It has been only a day since the transitional presidential council was installed in Haiti, and the list of demands on the Caribbean nation's new leaders is rapidly…

An Israeli strike in Lebanon's Beqaa region has killed two members of a Lebanese militant group that has fired rockets across the southern border at Israel, the group…

Pope Francis will attend this year's Group of Seven (G7) leaders' summit to discuss the challenges posed by artificial intelligence (AI), Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on…

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday told top U.S. diplomat Antony Blinken that the world's biggest economies should be "partners, not rivals" as the two sides pressed for…

Donald Trump's defense team attacked the credibility Friday of the prosecution's first witness in his hush money case, seeking to discredit testimony detailing a scheme between Trump and…

Jinichiro Kozuma birdied his first three holes in a bogey-free round of 9-under 63 to take a one-stroke lead Friday after the first round of the LIV Series…

The Paris Oympics flame was formally handed to French organizers on Friday in the all-marble stadium where the first modern Games were held in Athens in 1896. Greek…

Carlos Alcaraz didn’t need to put his tender right arm to the test to ease to a victory in his opening match at the Madrid Open on Friday.…

Manchester City are in ominous form as the champions chase a fourth successive Premier League crown. Leaders Arsenal face a stern test of their title credentials in the…

Chinese tech giant ByteDance has said it has no plans to sell TikTok after a new U.S. law put it on a deadline to divest from the hugely…

Toyota Motor Corp said Friday it will invest $1.4 billion in its factory in the U.S. state of Indiana to start producing electric vehicles from 2026, making it…

The yen weakened to the 158 range against the U.S. dollar in New York on Friday, falling to a fresh 34-year low, after the Bank of Japan kept…

ANA Holdings Inc said Friday its net profit rose 75.6 percent to a record 157.10 billion yen in the business year ended March, driven by global tourism growth…

A Mexican film has won the top prize Friday at the Moscow International Film Festival, which took place as major Western studios boycott the Russian market and as…

Two Japanese gang members suspected of killing a Japanese man and dismembering his body in central Thailand last month have fled to a neighboring country, Thai police said…

More than 600 students and others got sick after drinking milk provided for school lunches in Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on Thursday, a tally by Kyodo News showed…