Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a record defense budget plan exceeding 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for the coming year, ...

Market watchers expect structural growth should continue to drive earnings, dividends and capital return for local banks ...

Israel has brushed aside pressure from 14 countries to halt new West Bank settlements, calling the criticism discriminatory ...

The Japanese government on Friday approved a record budget for the upcoming fiscal year, to pay for everything from bigger ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Thursday arrangements are being made for her to meet with President Donald Trump in the ...

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Strategists see the yen weakening to 160 per dollar or beyond by the end of 2026, driven by still-wide US-Japan yield gaps, negative real rates and persistent capital outflows.

The Coalition of the Willing, established by UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, is a multinational force intended to provide security guarantees for Ukraine ...

The meeting was attended by representatives of the presidential administration, federal executive authorities and organizations involved in this work ...

The Quad — the U.S., Japan, India and Australia — was conceived as a strategic coalition to uphold a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” a concept articulated by the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo ...

Twelve European countries as well as Canada and Japan have condemned Israel’s decision earlier in the month to approve 19 new Jewish settlements in the Occupied West Bank saying the move harmed the ...