Two people have been killed and nearly 10,000 evacuated, the authorities said. The downpour has triggered landslides and flooding. Video Typhoon Krathon slammed into Taiwan’s populous southwestern coast just after midday Thursday, the authorities said, bringing torrential rain and heavy…
The sentence for S. Iswaran, the former transportation minister who pleaded guilty last week, was longer than what prosecutors had sought. A former government minister in Singapore was sentenced to one year in prison on Thursday in a rare graft…
The European Fiscal Board (EFB), the European Commission’s independent advisory body, considers in its annual report that Portugal is an ‘exception’ in the European Union (EU) for having high debt and achieving a structural surplus. In its annual report for…
Romania, Greece and Bulgaria have requested several measures to address the consistently higher energy market prices in Eastern Europe compared to Western Europe in recent months, with Romanian Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja saying on Wednesday that the request would be…
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Japan’s regional economies are facing severe labor shortages. Their survival depends on their ability to persuade foreign workers to stay. Four years ago, Hizatsuki Confectionery hired its first foreign workers. The company, in a mountainous region north of Tokyo, has…
The special counsel provided new details that help flesh out how Donald Trump sought to remain in power, while setting out his argument for the case to survive the Supreme Court’s immunity decision. Share full article Donald J. Trump speaking…
The cross-border fighting appeared to be the first direct ground confrontation between the two sides since Israel invaded Lebanon this week. Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants said on Wednesday that they were fighting at close range in southern Lebanon, in…
The Palestinian Authority’s official news agency said the Israeli military operation had included an incursion by ground troops and airstrikes. Israeli forces stepped up their attacks on the Gaza Strip overnight and into Wednesday, killing scores of people at several…
Nuclear experts see Tehran as facing up to a year of hard work to master the knotty basics of building a deliverable atom bomb. The first question of the vice-presidential debate on Tuesday night was whether the candidates would support…