Japan's ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito is unlikely to keep its majority in the House of Councillors following Sunday's election, media reports said.
While scorching heat grips most of America in early July, Wisconsin's Marathon County offers a striking exception: cool breezes whisper through shaded areas with almost autumnal crispness, while nighttime temperatures regularly dip below 20 degrees Celsius -- a refreshing anomaly in the sweltering national landscape.
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake jolted the far offshore area east of the Kamchatka Peninsula at 2:49 p.m. Sunday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC).
A total of 47 people have been recovered, including 10 survivors and 37 confirmed dead, after a cruise ship capsized in Ha Long Bay, northern Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency reported on Sunday.
South Korea's special counsel investigating former President Yoon Suk-yeol's short-lived martial law imposition on Saturday indicted the ousted leader under detention on additional charges.
Cambodia's national flag carrier, Air Cambodia, has launched its first direct flight between northwest Cambodia's Siem Reap province and southern China's Shenzhen city, the airline operator said in a press release.
Afghanistan has expanded its international trade reach, establishing commercial ties with more than 100 countries worldwide, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce has announced.
The United States said on Friday that the country has rejected amendments to the international health regulations adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO) last year.
Syrian and Israeli leaders have reached a ceasefire agreement under the auspices of the United States after deadly sectarian clashes in southern Syria prompted Israeli intervention with massive strikes recently.
A justice of Brazil's Supreme Federal Court on
Friday decided to impose strict legal restrictions on former Brazilian
President Jair Bolsonaro and his son Eduardo Bolsonaro for coercion,
obstruction of justice, and attack on national sovereignty.
Chen Zhou, deputy head of the International Department of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, led a CPC delegation
to visit Laos from Wednesday to Friday at the invitation of the Lao
People's Revolutionary Party.
The European Union (EU) approved a new round of sanctions against Russia on Friday, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas said.
The death toll from this week's deadly clashes in southern Syria's Sweida province has risen to nearly 600, as tensions continued Thursday amid an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the provincial capital of Sweida, state-run media and a war monitor reported.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday signed a wide-ranging bilateral deal covering various areas including defense and migration, which is believed to be the most significant treaty between Britain and Germany since the end of World War II.
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote Thursday on a bill to cut funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting after the Senate passed it.
The death toll from a devastating fire at a hypermarket in Kut, the capital of Iraq's Wasit province, has risen to 61, the Interior Ministry confirmed on Thursday.