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This is the final installment in a series of articles that examines the challenges faced by the nation’s election system, ...

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Two men were injured after being attacked at a subway station in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, on Wednesday evening, according to ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday permitted Donald Trump’s administration to implement his ban on transgender personnel in ...

ROME – As the cardinals walk into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening to open the papal conclave, they’ll chant the ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average edged lower on Wednesday, snapping a seven-session winning streak by the tiniest of margins, as ...

KDDI Corp. has started a service for the direct connection of smartphones with the Starlink satellite network of SpaceX of ...

The government plans to enhance its surveying and research activities on remote border islands using lasers to analyze ...

One of the few remaining pro-democratic parties in Hong Kong has been forced to decide to disband. The “high degree of ...

The Trump administration earlier this year urged the Ukrainian government to accept an unspecified number of U.S. deportees ...

There is no end to cases of bears appearing in residential areas and causing harm to people. If there is no choice but to ...