TOKYO, April 22 -- Japan on Tuesday scrapped a ban on lethal weapons exports, a major change in its postwar pacifist policy as the country seeks to build up its arms industry amid worries over Chinese... Read More
Paris, April 22 -- A Nasa rover has discovered more building blocks of life on Mars after carrying out a chemistry experiment never before conducted on another planet, scientists said on Tuesday. The ... Read More
New Delhi, April 22 -- US tech firm Palantir published a "manifesto" on social media that set out a vision of untrammelled US power, proclaimed the superiority of Western civilisation and advocated fo... Read More
Singapore, April 22 -- At least five vessels appeared to have crossed the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday as US and Iranian blockades remained in place. The Shoja 2, an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel, trans... Read More
Washington, April 22 -- US President Donald Trump said late Monday the United States obtaining uranium from Iran would be "long" and "difficult" in the aftermath of last year's US strikes on Tehran's ... Read More
London, April 22 -- A former top British bureaucrat said he felt political pressure to clear Peter Mandelson to become ambassador to the US, in dramatic public testimony sure to further imperil the le... Read More
WASHINGTON, April 22 -- US Labour Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out of President Donald Trump's Cabinet, the White House said on Monday, after multiple allegations of abusing her position's power, ... Read More
washington, April 22 -- The US government said it stopped and boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in its campaign to disrupt Iran's shipping network, the first such intervention since the imposition of a ... Read More
WASHINGTON, April 22 -- President Trump said on Tuesday that the United States was considering helping the United Arab Emirates financially and a currency swap with the Middle East nation was under co... Read More
MUMBAI, April 22 -- India's consumer demand is showing clear signs of softening, with inflation pressures amid volatile crude oil prices and a weak monsoon outlook beginning to weigh on spending acros... Read More