India's government said Monday that it has evidence there are extremists who pose a threat to the country's security among the Rohingya Muslims who have fled Myanmar and settled in many Indian cities. India's Supreme Court was hearing a petition filed on behalf of two ...
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Wednesday that Japan now estimates a bomb North Korea tested Sunday had a yield of about 160 kilotons, based on a definitive analysis of the magnitude of the seismic activity observed during the detonation. The Japanese government had initially put ...
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera and his Indian counterpart, Arun Jaitley, confirmed Tuesday the necessity of increasing pressure on North Korea in cooperation with the international community, amid Pyongyang's advancing nuclear arms and missile development. The Indian defense chief's visit to Japan followed North Korea's sixth ...
One of the largest celebrations of Caribbean culture in the U.S. is being held in New York amid ramped-up security. Thousands of revelers including musicians, dancers and costumed troupes gathered Monday for the morning J'ouvert (joo-VAY') celebration and the afternoon Caribbean Carnival parade. There had been ...
Tokyo is worried that Washington's reluctance to arm Japan with a new advanced radar could make the U.S. missile defense system the government plans to install much less capable of countering North Korea's growing threat, three sources said. Japan wants to have a land-based version ...
As urged by U.S. President Donald Trump, Japan is accelerating efforts to beef up its defenses against North Korea, but Tokyo is likely to encounter technological and budgetary limits when expanding its role in the bilateral security alliance. During a telephone call with Prime Minister ...
Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia, hit last week by two Islamist militant attacks that killed 15 people, will deploy more police, install bollards in Barcelona and step up security around stations and tourist landmarks. The aim is to strike a balance between security and not ...
Thousands of people rallied in Turkey's largest city on Sunday against security measures Israel has imposed at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, shortly after Israel removed other measures that led to two weeks of violent Palestinian protests. The rally in Istanbul, called "The Big Jerusalem ...
The Liberal Democratic Party's policy chief and India's foreign minister on Wednesday emphasized the importance of their trilateral security partnership with the United States. The agreement was reaffirmed during a meeting in the Indian capital between Toshimitsu Motegi and Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj, Motegi ...
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said Wednesday it will impose new stricter security rules requiring airline travelers to remove all electronic items larger than mobile phones, including tablets, e-readers and video game consoles, from carry-on baggage for screening. Prior rules required only laptops to ...
Japan and the United States are arranging to hold security talks involving their foreign and defense chiefs in Washington around Aug. 17, after postponing them from mid-July due to conflicts of schedule, sources close to bilateral ties said Tuesday. The first "two-plus-two" meeting since President ...
Tokyo has lodged a protest with Pyongyang after a vessel allegedly threatened a fisheries patrol boat in Japan's exclusive economic zone, government sources said Wednesday. The Fisheries Agency crew said the vessel, believed to be from North Korea, trained a gun on their patrol boat ...
