TOKYO - Japan ordered nearly 800,000 people on the southern island of Kyushu to take shelter in evacuation centers and other safe areas on Wednesday as heavy rains threatened to trigger landslides and cause other damage.
PARIS - Once he was a rebellious teenager who became a psychiatric nurse in France. Then a 2008 road accident caused severe brain damage and today Vincent Lambert is the silent presence at the heart of an emotional right-to-die case that may be ending as doctors are set to begin removing life support.
A senior Chilean official said he hopes the progress achieved during the recent meeting between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump could help bring an end to the ongoing trade tension between the two countries.
WASHINGTON - The amount of ice circling Antarctica is suddenly plunging from a record high to record lows, baffling scientists.
DAKAR - The market around Colobane Square in central Dakar has been a hive of activity since dawn as hundreds of buyers and sellers haggle over the latest imports from Europe.
HOUSTON, Texas - In the arid and remote northwest corner of the southwestern US state of New Mexico, lie grand structures that represent the center of a thriving culture 1,000 years ago.
KREFELD, Germany - For almost 30 years they passed as quirky eccentrics, diligently setting up their insect traps in the Rhine countryside to collect tens of millions of bugs and creepy crawlers.
The Sunday meeting between Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and US President Donald Trump at the truce village of Panmunjom was hailed by the international community, as it relights the hope of advancing the long-stalemated denuclearization talks.
TOKYO/SEOUL - Japan will tighten curbs on exports of hightech materials used in smartphone displays and chips to the Republic of Korea amid a growing dispute over forced labor of Koreans during World War II, the Japanese Industry Ministry said on Monday.
European Union leaders in Brussels remained divided on early Monday afternoon over who should lead their main institutions.
KABUL - Up to 34 people have been confirmed dead after a powerful blast rocked Kabul on Monday morning, local broadcaster network Tolo television reported.
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