Late in 1940, a Japanese scholar took five or six Kobe police officials to the best restaurant in the city and told them nothing. There was shellfish soup, lobster in soy sauce, sake, and a geisha with a shamisen.
FOLLOWING the resolution of the disgusting and partisan Senate impasse, a ticklish, if not thorny, issue of who will preside over the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte threatens to create another schism in the Senate sitting as an impeachment court.
Over 1 million people enrolled in Obamacare plans lack Social Security Numbers, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to oppose on Monday the decision by the panel hearing his criminal trial to expand the number of hearings to five days in a week starting in October.
Iraqi security forces arrested legislators and politicians as well as current and former senior government officials on Sunday in what sources described as part of a wider anti-corruption campaign by Prime Minister Ali Al Zaidi.
Iraqi authorities have arrested 47 officials in an anti-corruption campaign led by new Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, the Iraqi News Agency (INA) said on Sunday.
Beyond Sunday's Iranian drone and missile attacks targeting Bahrain and Kuwait, launched in response to earlier U.S. airstrikes, Hormuz shipping traffic remains stable but well below last week's peak, when 57 vessels transited the strait on Wednesday. With maritime flows stable through the critical waterway, attenti…
The US Supreme Court is expected to wrap up its current term in the coming days, with several major cases still pending, including three involving US President Donald Trump's far-reaching assertion of presidential powers, two important election-related cases, and one involving a crackdown by states on transgender at…
Serena Williams of the U.S. reacts during a practice session, ahead of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, in London, Saturday June 27, 2026. (John Walton/PA via AP)
Rights groups have condemned a protest ban imposed by Turkey ahead of a Nato summit, as well as the arrest of hundreds of people in a sweeping crackdown.
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, a sapper examines a fragment of the Russian missile in a residential neighbourhood following an air attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 28, 2026. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Officers from the Israel Police's Negev District found a stolen IDF shoulder-mounted anti-tank rocket launcher inside a vehicle that was allegedly used by criminal elements, Walla learned on Sunday.
The union boss greenlighted by the Victorian Labor government to wield huge control over the Big Build vouched in court for a major drug trafficker on two separate occasions before installing him at the helm of a major Big Build firm – only for the criminal to be busted and jailed again.
SEOUL, June 28 (Yonhap) -- A local court on Sunday issued an arrest warrant for a suspect in his 70s accused of stabbing a man at a museum in central Seoul two days earlier, citing the risk of flight.
A High Court of Justice panel on Sunday heard arguments on the issue of the controversial vote for State Comptroller, after the Knesset last week rejected a court proposal to hold a re-election.
Iraqi security forces carried out raids overnight between Saturday and Sunday in Baghdad’s storied Green Zone in the heart of the capital, as footage showed armored vehicles and members of the elite Counter-Terrorism Service carrying out the raids.
Polls have opened in New Caledonia for its first provincial elections since 2019, with a heavy police presence at voting stations on the French-ruled Pacific archipelago.
The proliferation of suppression orders in the justice system is being reviewed by the Allan government amid widespread concerns they are being applied too frequently, particularly on mental health grounds.
Paramilitary soldiers and police officers stand guard on a road cordoned off near the site of a militant attack at the provincial headquarters of the paramilitary Pakistan Rangers in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, June 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Ali Raza)
A paedophile has been allowed to keep the proceeds from selling his home in country NSW, after a judge denied a police claim he had “fortified” it with security cameras to carry out his crimes.
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli has issued a defence of two ministers facing questions in their portfolios and beyond, as a police probe into another drags into its second month without a public update.
South Korean police said Sunday they are investigating 2,319 individuals linked with illegal gambling online, identified through a seven-month crackdown launched in November.
Iraqi security forces carried out a series of overnight arrests inside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone, detaining an undisclosed number of current and former officials in what sources described as part of an escalating anti-corruption campaign led by Prime Minister Ali Al Zaidi.
1882 -- Chinese troops arrive at the western port of Incheon as Korea's royal court requested assistance to suppress a revolt staged by army soldiers who were angry at the creation of a modern military contingent. The new unit was entitled to a higher salary and better treatment.