The Japanese government on Friday expressed its concerns over a Britain's referendum result to leave the European Union, with rapid moves reflected the outcome affecting in both stocks and forex markets here.
Japan's massive government pension fund confirmed Thursday that it has sued the crisis-hit Toshiba Corp. for around 960 million yen (9.1 million dollars) in damages over an accounting scandal that brought down the electronics giant' s share price.
Up to 165 Taliban militants have given up fighting in the northern Faryab and Jauzjan provinces over the past couple of days as military crackdowns against armed oppositions in the said provinces is underway over the past couple of months.
A 50-member group of armed militants gave up fighting and handed over their weapons to the government in Dawlatabad district of the northern Faryab province on Wednesday, an army spokesman in the northern region Nasratullah Jamshidi said Thursday.
The world's first drone capable of autonomously carrying a person may test-fly in Nevada later this year, the United States, Chinese Aerial technology company EHang Holdings Limited told Xinhua on Sunday.
India has launched a major probe into an alleged phone tapping scandal that targeted senior Ministers, top bureaucrats and corporate honchos between 2001 and 2006.
Senior Advisor to the UN Special Envoy for Syria Jan Egeland welcomed Thursday the headway made by humanitarian actors in reaching civilians trapped in besieged areas in Syria.
Brazil's chief prosecutor Rodrigo Janot is seeking permission to have top politicians from the governing PMDB party arrested, Brazilian media say.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull suspended his election campaign tour on Tuesday (June 7) to visit areas of the country ravaged by a powerful storm that has battered the country's east coast for several days.
The union representing Hong Kong-based British Airways cabin crew is threatening to take the airline to court in the UK if talks break down this month over union recognition and pay rises, as the group revealed that most crew members had not seen a raise since 1998.
Sudanese Foreign Ministry on Sunday expressed deep resentment over the U.S. for keeping Sudan's name on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism.
Fifty members of a hacking ring were arrested on suspicion of stealing over 1.7 billion rubles (over 25 million U.S. dollars) from Russian bank accounts, said the authorities on Wednesday.
Afghan government forces have increased pressure on anti-government militants since the death of Taliban supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor as armed insurgents have been killed across the militancy-plagued country over the past week.
Keith Bliss, a senior vice president at Cuttone & Co. company, has been holding a credit card since 1987, but he is not that satisfied with the credit system in the United States.
China's military rejected U.S. claims on China's "unsafe" intercept of an American Navy reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea, and demanded the U.S. ends such action.
Two legal experts debate who has the right to decide when and where drones can fly
In the story of one famous Chinese idiom, a man plugs his ears while trying to steal a bell, foolishly believing that by doing so others won't hear the sound of the bell when it is moved away.
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