STOCKHOLM – Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-born British novelist best known for “The Remains of the Day,” won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday. The selection of the 62-year-old Ishiguro marked a return to traditional literature […]
SANTIAGO – Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, while speaking with Japan’s royals, has criticized North Korea’s threats to Japan. North Korea recently conducted a string of nuclear weapons tests, including its sixth and most powerful detonation, […]
TOKYO – Japan has killed 177 whales in Pacific Ocean “for scientific research” in a move which allows it to circumnavigate a moratorium on hunting the mammals. Three ships, which left port in June, returned […]
SANTIAGO – Japan’s Prince Akishino and his wife Princess Kiko left for a 10-day trip to Chile on Monday to boost friendship with the South American nation on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of […]
CARACAS – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced his government will sell oil and other commodities in currencies other than the dollar, in a bid to weather U.S. sanctions on the embattled South American country. […]
MEXICO CITY – Mexico has expelled the North Korean ambassador in protest over Pyongyang’s latest nuclear test which it says posed “a grave risk for peace.” Ambassador Kim Hyong Gil was declared persona non grata […]
WASHINGTON – The United States, Mexico and Canada opened negotiations Wednesday to reform the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a 1994 trade deal that was a major target in U.S. President Donald Trump’s run […]
BEIJING – Warships carrying thousands of Chinese troops are sailing towards Djibouti to set up Beijing’s first overseas military base, state media reported, as the Communist nation’s rapidly modernizing military extends its global reach. The […]
NEW DELHI – The India Space Research Organization (ISRO) earlier this week successfully launched 31 satellites using PLSV-C38 rocket, including Cartosat-2E dedicated to Earth observation. As reported by ISRO website, the fortieth PLSV-C38 vehicle took […]
HAVANA – Some 1,000 specialists from 23 countries will attend the 11th International Convention on Environment and Development, which will run from July 1st to 7th, said organizers on Wednesday. With the motto ‘United and […]
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