Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant in Niigata Prefecture, one of the largest nuclear plants in the world. TEPCO is pushing to restart two reactors there. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)In a major policy shift, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Aug. 24 directed a government panel tasked with finding...
LONDON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Cold winters helped Moscow defeat Napoleon and Hitler. President Vladimir Putin is now betting that sky-rocketing energy prices and possible shortages this winter will persuade Europe to strong arm Ukraine into a truce -- on Russia's terms. That, say two Russian sources familiar with Kremlin...
KYIV, Ukraine : Russian forces Wednesday launched a rocket attack on a Ukrainian train station on the embattled country’s Independence Day, killing 22 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after warning for days that Moscow might attempt “something particularly cruel” this week.The lethal attack took place in Chaplyne, a town...
Islamabad, August 22: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday blamed the country’s military establishment for the ongoing crackdown on the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) that has escalated tensions in the country and raised the risk of large-scale unrest. “On May 25, when the police used violence against us, I...
Fears over the prospect of an invasion from China is twice as high among Australians when compared to the Taiwanese, new research suggests.  An Australian Institute survey of 1,000 people each in Australia and Taiwan found one in 10 Australians believed China would invade their country “soon” compared to one...
The Defense Ministry’s budget requests for fiscal 2023 will include funds to strengthen Japan’s capability to detect and intercept hypersonic missiles, which are more elusive than conventional missiles, government sources said. The project will be one of more than 100 items the ministry is expected to pursue without specifying costs. North...
TOKYO — The U.S. and South Korean militaries began their largest field exercises in five years this week, a step that demonstrates the allies’ hardening line against North Korea but will probably trigger an angry reaction from Pyongyang and ramp up tensions on the peninsula.The summer drills, named Ulchi...
Bangkok: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, who is in Thailand to attend the 9th India-Thailand Joint Commission Meeting as both nations celebrate 75 years of establishment of diplomatic relations, will hold meeting with his Thai counterpart Don Pramudwinai today in Bangkok.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand will host...
Singapore: China's recent decision to fire missiles over Taiwan is a "gorilla in the room" that has to be contested, a top US military commander said Tuesday.Beijing has carried out huge air and sea drills this month around Taiwan in a furious reaction to visits by US House Speaker...
Chinese internet giants including Alibaba, Tiktok-owner ByteDance and Tencent have shared details of their algorithms with China's regulators for the first time.Algorithms decide what users see and the order they see it in - and are critical to driving the growth of social media platforms.They are closely guarded by...