The real world has begun to intrude upon the presidency of Donald Trump. The violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, between white nationalists and counterprotesters confronted Trump with perhaps the first true domestic crisis of his young administration. And to some, even within his own Republican ...
The violence that broke out during a demonstration in Virginia has been building for months during a series of confrontations between white nationalists and people who oppose them. Here are some of the clashes that have occurred across the United States this year: July 8: Ku ...
A senior health official who was formerly vice governor of Niigata is fatally stabbed in her brother’s Tokyo apartment, resulting in his arrest.
A German couple received lengthy jail sentences Friday for brutally raping and killing a Chinese student in eastern Germany, a shocking crime that caused outrage in both countries. The court in the city of Dessau found that the 21-year-old defendants, named only as Sebastian F. ...
Two men were arrested Tuesday a day after the body of a woman in her 50s, who had been missing since mid-June, was found buried in a Shiga Prefecture forest, the police said. Ichiya Nishida, a 20-year-old construction worker, and an 18-year-old part-time worker were ...
A court in China's southwestern Yunnan province sentenced a man to death for killing his parents and 17 other people in a spat last year over money, state media said on Friday. The China News Service said Yang Qingpei killed his parents in their Yunnan ...
Two women accused of the Cold War-style assassination of the half-brother of North Korea's leader in Malaysia will go on trial in October, a judge said Friday. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong are accused of rubbing the highly toxic VX nerve agent ...
Still hoping the alleged perpetrator will show remorse, survivors and relatives of victims marked the first anniversary Wednesday of a deadly stabbing rampage at a care home for the mentally disabled southwest of Tokyo. Nineteen people died and dozens were injured in the attack at ...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has said that talks are already under way with China on a possible joint venture to explore for resources in areas of the South China Sea that are disputed between the two countries. Duterte made the statement at a news conference ...
Beijing police are hunting for a man suspected of stabbing five people and then plowing into a group of nine others with a van, killing one and injuring eight, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The attack took place mid-afternoon Sunday in the suburban district ...
About a year has passed since the fatal stabbings of 19 residents with developmental disabilities at a facility in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, killed at the hands of a former care worker who spoke of euthanizing the disabled. Satoshi Uematsu, 27, was indicted in February on ...
North Korea carries out public executions on riverbanks and at school grounds and marketplaces for charges such as stealing copper from factory machines, distributing media from South Korea and prostitution, a report issued Wednesday said. The report, by a Seoul-based nongovernmental organization, said the often ...
