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The leaders of Japan and Russia hold crunch summit talks on Tuesday, with the two countries locked in an undiplomatic war of words over a set of disputed islands. Simmering tension between Moscow and Tokyo over the islands has ramped up

The world’s oldest man has died at his home, a hot springs inn on Japan’s northern main island of Hokkaido, at the age of 113. His family said Masazo Nonaka died peacefully from natural causes in the early hours of Sunday

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, often called Industry 4.0, has already been set into motion. Poised to fuse industrial production with the state-of-the-art technology, it is more than a buzzword. Certainly the digitization of manufacturing has by now arrived in no small

Ghanaian forward Kevin-Prince Boateng has joined Barcelona in a shock loan move from Italian side Sassuolo, the Spanish club said on Monday. The leaders of La Liga said in a statement they had agreed a deal to take Boateng, 31, on

Ukraine and Russia are meeting Monday with European Union officials to hash out an ongoing dispute about transporting gas to the EU. Several EU member states are reliant on gas supplies from Russia, much of which is routed through Ukraine under

The Taliban killed more than 100 members of the Afghan security forces inside a military compound in central Maidan Wardak province on Monday, a senior defense official said. “We have information that 126 people have been killed in the explosion inside

The Venezuelan army on Monday detained 27 members of the National Guard who stole weapons and abducted four officers, officials said. “A small group of soldiers were arrested who betrayed their oath of allegiance to the homeland,” said a statement published

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukranian President Petro Poroshenko announced Monday the two countries had signed a free trade agreement. “Today a free trade agreement was signed and we have been working on it for many years,” Netanyahu told a