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TOKYO -  Japan Today Carlos Ghosn concealed the scale of his compensation at Nissan because he feared the French government would force him out of Renault if it discovered how much he earned, an executive...

https://www.bbc.com-image copyright KCNA image captionThe missile was debuted at a military parade which came at the end of an important and rare political meeting North Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile that...

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Indonesia's Sulawesi island registered a magnitude 5.7 earthquake on Thursday, the European‑Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) reported. The earthquake hit the island at 06:35 GMT. According to the EMSC, the epicentre was located...

A team from the World Health Organization (WHO) has arrived in the Chinese city of Wuhan to study the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. The mission had been delayed for months as the global...

Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye sits for her trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on May 23, 2017 (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool, File) Short Url https://arab.news/yrfv4-AP Park was convicted of corruption, extortion...

https://www.rferl.org Jaroslaw Domanski, head of the ODIHR limited election observation mission in Kazakhstan, addresses reporters in Nur-Sultan on January 12.. The head of an election-monitoring team to Kazakhstan from the Organization for Security and Cooperation...

by Radhika Parashar Facebook-owned WhatsApp has explained to users that its recently rolled-out privacy policy update notification does not breach their privacy. On Wednesday, the front pages of several Indian newspapers, including the Times of India, The...

Carlos Ghosn Photo: AP file By YURI KAGEYAMA -  Japan Today TOKYO A former Nissan chief operating officer outlined in a Japanese court Tuesday the pains company officials took to hide star executive Carlos Ghosn’s pay, and...

Mass protests by farmers hit the country last year when parliament adopted new farm laws in a bid to liberalise the agriculture market in the country. The Indian Supreme Court has put the implementation of...

An international team of experts from the World Health Organization is expected to arrive in China this week to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, as the country registers a sharp uptick in...

https://www.bbc.com-Parts of the fuselage of the plane have apparently been recovered- EPA "Black boxes" from a passenger plane that crashed into the sea soon after take-off in Indonesia on Saturday have been located, officials say. Navy...

https://www.rferl.org-Sadyr Japarov attends an election rally in Tokmok on December 30. A poll that month found that 64 percent of respondents intended to vote for him. BISHKEK -- Kyrgyz nationalist politician Sadyr Japarov has vowed...

by Aleksandra Serebriakova North Korea is currently holding the Workers' Party congress, a major political event that was last organised nearly five years ago. Addressing loyal party members during the first day of the conference, the...

AFP Beijing opposes any diplomatic recognition of Taiwan and has pushed to keep it isolated on the world stage UNITED NATIONS: China on Thursday warned the United States would pay a “heavy price” if its United...

It found that 1.68% of those from Wuhan contained antibodies for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, compared to 0.59% in the surrounding Hubei province and 0.38% in the rest of China. WorldReuters Shanghai, China: The...

By Steve Holland, Steve Stecklow WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger has resigned, joining a number of officials who are leaving the administration of President Donald Trump following the storming of Capitol...

by Ekaterina Blinova Despite gloomy predictions, India is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and may outperform the UK in the coming years and become the world's fifth largest economy, says Indian author Suvam Pal. India's economy is...

by Henry Batyaev Late on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement that Washington is looking to slap sanctions on Chinese state agencies and officials over the arrest of more than 50...

By NICOLAS ASFOURI  - Japan Today BEIJING China's internet erupted in mirth at America's troubled democracy after supporters of President Donald Trump broke into the U.S. Capitol, comparing the chaos to the Hong Kong anti-government protests...

By Pei Li, Tom Westbrook HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The New York Stock Exchange said it no longer intends to delist three Chinese telecom giants - a shock reversal of an announcement made only last week and...