2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (175+ words) Japan's government plans to update a procedure for repatriating the remains of people who died overseas in World War Two. The aim is to bring them back faster when possible. Welfare ministry officials presented the changes on Tuesday at a…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (165+ words) A court in Hong Kong has sentenced the organizers of a vigil for the victims of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. They face at least five years in jail. The three defendants belonged to a civic group called the Hong Kong…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (150+ words) Houthi rebels in Yemen are ramping up an offensive in areas along the Red Sea, an alternative shipping route to the Strait of Hormuz. Concerns are growing over the impact on global sea lanes. A Yemeni media outlet reported on…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (192+ words) The leader of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, a party widely regarded as far-right, criticized the government's immigration policy in parliament. It was her first address since the party significantly increased its seats in a recent state election. AfD,…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (169+ words) A researcher at US artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has announced his resignation, citing fears that out-of-control AI could destroy the human race. Jacob Coxon has been involved in pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. He said in a social…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (164+ words) Two paintings by Renoir, a prominent French Impressionist painter, have been stolen from an art museum in southern France. Local media say the total loss amounts to around 9 million euros, or roughly 10 million dollars. On Tuesday, multiple people cut through…...

6+ day, 55+ min ago   (121+ words) Marcos' cousin arrested over flood project scandal nhk.or.jp A cousin of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is under arrest. He is accused of pocketing hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks from flood control projects. A court recommended…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (107+ words) Search for hydropower project workers intensifies in Nepal nhk.or.jp Rescuers in Nepal are racing to find hundreds of missing hydropower project workers following devastating flash floods The military says about 120 could still be trapped in tunnels Officials say…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (94+ words) Indonesian airports reopen after volcanic eruptions nhk.or.jp A series of volcanic eruptions recently forced eight Indonesian airports to halt operations But they are now up and running again Mount Anak Krakatau sits in the Sunda Strait between Java…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (219+ words) China's government says it will impose what amounts to a tariff on a chemical imported from Japan that's used in making semiconductors. China's Commerce Ministry on Monday said the prices of the dichlorosilane material are kept unfairly low and the…...