Catherine Belton is an international investigative reporter for The Washington Post, reporting on Russia. She worked from 2007 to 2013 as the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times, and in ...

Pope Francis has been laid to rest after a solemn funeral. Followers, world leaders and foreign dignitaries gathered at the Vatican to bid him a final farewell. The Pontiff's funeral mass started ...

The United Nations World Food Programme says it has run out of food stocks in the Gaza Strip. Israel has been blocking aid for weeks. WFP officials said on Friday that they had delivered their ...

The city of Ofunato in Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, is making gradual progress in rebuilding lives two months after massive forest fires broke out. The fires that started on February 26 ...

The Ukrainian Air Force says Russia's military launched 103 drones in overnight attacks through Friday morning, killing three people in eastern Ukraine. It says 41 of the drones were shot down.

NHK World's Yoshikawa Ryuichi explains. Correction: Our report included the line, "In 1995, US cars were about 40 percent of all imported car sales in Japan. But 30 years later, that's down to ...

Trade friction between the US and China, the world's two largest economies, is another worry. Stock and foreign exchange markets around the world remain volatile. Speaking after the first day of ...

She added, "All companies operating in the EU must follow our laws." A Meta official told NHK that the European Commission is attempting to handicap successful US businesses and is forcing Meta to ...

Automakers from around the world are pitching their cars at a major global motor show in Shanghai, China. Overseas firms are aiming to expand their business in the country as economic ...

NHK has learned that the Japanese government is exploring bioethanol imports as a topic for trade talks with the United States. Bargaining chips in a wide range of sectors, including auto, farm ...

A Tokyo-based group working to reduce food waste has been using food left unsold at dining establishments for its program offering free meals to seniors who have trouble cooking on their own.

People in Asia's largest Catholic country, the Philippines, have flocked to a church to pray for the Pope. Quiapo Church is one of the oldest Catholic churches in the Philippines. On Monday ...