A shift to values-based diplomacy risks jeopardizing Japan’s long history of close engagement with the developing world.

After two days of diplomacy and negotiations, NATO’s meeting broke up with lots of ideas, but no deal to send fighter jets to Ukraine.

In November, the state Health Department suspended admissions, and federal regulators suspended funding for new admissions after state inspections revealed conditions that put residents in “immediate jeopardy.”

Activists are urging the government to enact anti-discrimination legislation before Japan hosts the G-7 summit of industrialized nations in Hiroshima in May.

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“Putin seeks to rob Ukraine of its future by taking its children,” said U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price.

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Last weekend, the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft in Türkiye carried out its first two medical evacuation flights, moving a total of 12 casualties and 69 family members from the earthquake-hit disaster area to hospitals in Antalya and Ankara. During …