The shrine, Aug. 16 -- Shinjiro Koizumi, Japan's defense minister, walked into Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday and made no statement to the reporters waiting for him at the gate. He did not need to. In th... Read More
NEW DELHI, Aug. 16 -- The phrase both governments reached for on Saturday was the same one they have used for years: a specially privileged strategic partnership. It has never had to carry as much wei... Read More
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- A revoked visa does not come with a hearing. There is no appeal to an immigration judge, no published reasoning, and in most cases no explanation beyond a consular officer's det... Read More
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- At some point last week, some number of the roughly 5,000 sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln reportedly tried to jump from the aircraft carrier into the sea. The... Read More
BUCHAREST, Aug. 16 -- A Spanish F-18 fighter jet on NATO air policing duty intercepted and shot down a drone that entered Romanian airspace from the direction of Moldova on Sunday, Romania's Defence M... Read More
PYONGYANG, Aug. 16 -- On the same day that South Korea's president stood in Seoul and called on North Korea to open formal talks to end the Korean War, Kim Jong Un sent a message to Vladimir Putin ple... Read More
ANKARA, Aug. 16 -- Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not withdraw Turkey's application to join the European Union on Saturday. The file remains open in Brussels, where it has sat since the bloc recognised Anka... Read More
VADUZ, Aug. 16 -- The man who controls one of the last genuinely powerful monarchies in Europe stepped before his nation's celebration on Friday and announced he would, in time, give up the principle ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 16 -- Horoscope today, 16 August 2026, turns on one meeting in the western sky that the syndicated daily horoscope will not mention at all. At 12.41 pm IST, the waxing crescent Moon co... Read More
LONDON, Aug. 16 -- Millions of phones in England and Wales received the same message simultaneously on Friday afternoon. The government's emergency alert system, which exists for flooding, terrorism, ... Read More