Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, despite an underwhelming start eight months ago, is enjoying surprising popularity by playing it safe as the public’s worries about the coronavirus and global conflicts ease.

SEOUL – South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol promised on Thursday to remove outdated regulations hindering new businesses while calling for an immediate start to reforming labour practices, the education system and pension programmes.

The German government has unveiled a bill to resolve a long-running dispute between federal authorities and the country’s 16 states over where to build land-based wind power plants.

WASHINGTON –The United States on Tuesday backed Taiwan’s assertion that the strait separating the island from China is an international waterway, a further rebuff to Beijing’s claim to exercise sovereignty over the strategic passage.

China and New Zealand foreign ministers spoke on a video call late on Monday and discussed China’s role in the Pacific region, the two countries confirmed in separate statements.

Russian state-controlled energy giant Gazprom says gas deliveries through a key pipeline to Europe will drop by around 40% this year.

Britain plans to send its first group of asylum-seekers to Rwanda amid outcries and legal challenges.

Iran appears to be readying for a space launch as satellite images showed a rocket on a rural desert launch pad, just as tensions remain high over Tehran’s nuclear program.

South Korea says that a weeklong strike by thousands of truckers in the country has triggered major disruptions in cargo transport and production that have caused $1.2 billion in damages.

Rampant inflation is making it increasingly difficult for people in Zimbabwe to make ends meet.