TOKYO (AP) — Embattled Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who survived as leader after a major election loss by his governing coalition, promised Friday to work closely with the long-ignored ...

Ireland is voting Friday in a parliamentary election that will decide the next government — and will show whether Ireland ...

On a bright winter day, workers at a Ukrainian thermal power plant repair its heavily damaged equipment as drops of water ...

Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov arrived in North Korea on Friday for talks with North Korean military and political ...

Paraguay’s foreign minister said his country is committed to its relationship with Taiwan and has no plans to break off their diplomatic relationship in favor of China ...

It’s show time. After weeks of pushing early deals, retailers in the United States and some other countries are promising ...

A handful of Massachusetts lawmakers are hoping to persuade their colleagues to support a proposal that would make the state ...

Since 1943, the people of Appalachian Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee have looked forward to Santa’s arrival. Not in a ...

President-elect Donald Trump is set to create a National Energy Council that he says will establish American “energy ...

Hours after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire to end the war between Israel and Hezbollah went into effect, Lebanon woke up to the sound of celebratory gunfire instead of Israeli airstrikes ...

Asian shares were mixed on Friday after U.S. markets were closed Thursday due to the Thanksgiving holiday. U.S. futures and oil prices rose. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index fell ...

Mistakes by members of the crew caused a New Zealand navy ship to plow into a reef off the coast of Samoa, where it caught ...