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Tokyo promised a high-tech Olympics complete with robots as it marked a year to go until the 2020 Games on…

A homegrown Vietnamese social media app was overloaded with users hours after launching as the one-party state tries to boost…

Pressure mounted on Robert Mueller, who headed the probe investigating Russian meddling, to spell out clearly in Congressional testimony Wednesday…

High-profile Philippine journalist Maria Ressa’s libel trial opened Tuesday in a case that she and press freedom advocates see as…

Muslims who escaped China’s crackdown in Xinjiang still live in fear, saying new homes abroad and even Western passports afford…

An assault on pro-democracy protesters by suspected triad gangsters that left dozens wounded sparked a firestorm of outrage in Hong…

Portugal requested the loan of two water-bombing planes on Monday as winds revived massive wildfires in a central region where…

Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo will not face any charges over an alleged rape in Las Vegas a decade ago after…

Caracas and other parts of crisis-wracked Venezuela were hit by a massive power cut on Monday that the government blamed…

Iran said it will attend a meeting in Vienna on Sunday of diplomats from countries still party to the 2015…