AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Concerned about Egypt’s political instability and the U.S. budget crunch, a growing number of American lawmakers are challenging the wisdom of providing $1.3 billion a year in military aid to Cairo, arguing that the policy is overdue for a wholesale review. Lawmakers say that ...
The White House is moving toward a major policy shift on Syria that could provide the rebels with equipment such as body armor, armored vehicles and possible military training and could send humanitarian assistance directly to Syria’s opposition political coalition, according to U.S. and ...
Saudi Arabia has been supplying Syrian rebels battling the regime of President Bashar Assad with arms bought from Croatia, according to The New York Times. Citing unnamed U.S. and Western officials, the newspaper reported late Monday that the Saudi-financed “large purchase of infantry weapons” ...
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard says it has captured a foreign unmanned aircraft during a military exercise in a southern area of the country.
Rejecting a push by Britain, European governments on Monday decided against providing weapons to Syrian rebel forces, expressing fears that more arms would only lead to more bloodshed in a conflict that already has taken nearly 70,000 lives. The decision, by European Union foreign ...
For the first time since the mid-1990s, sales of the 100 biggest arms dealers, excluding China, declined in 2011 as the economic crisis prompted budget cuts, a Stockholm-based think tank says.
North Korea is upgrading one of its major missile launch sites, apparently to handle far bigger rockets, and the design features implicate Iran.
Adding weight to its announcement of a nuclear upgrade, Tehran has shown U.N. officials high-tech equipment positioned at its main uranium enrichment site meant to vastly accelerate output of material that can be used for both reactor fuel and atomic arms, a senior envoy ...
The United States is considering re-designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism in the event Pyongyang conducts another nuclear test.
North Korea, poised to conduct a nuclear test any day now, has posted a video on YouTube depicting a U.S. city resembling New York engulfed in flames after an apparent missile attack. The footage was uploaded Saturday by the North’s official website, Uriminzokkiri, which ...
President Barack Obama’s nominee for defense secretary said Thursday he will not hesitate to use the “full force of the U.S. military” as he plunged into a Senate confirmation fight with critics from his own Republican Party who worry that his past statements about ...
A monkey strapped in a pod resembling an infant’s car seat rides an Iranian rocket into space and returns safely, in what was described as a step toward Tehran’s goal of manned space flight.
