TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed Friday to build a stable and constructive relationship but achieved only a vague agreement on easing a dispute over a Chinese ban on Japanese seafood, officials said.Kishida told reporters after a 65-minute meeting with Xi on…

close Video A high-speed train and a regional train were involved in an accident in southern Germany on Friday that left several people slightly injured, police said. STUDENT AT GERMAN SPECIAL NEEDS SCHOOL FATALLY SHOT BY CLASSMATE Police wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that there was a “lateral contact” between…

11 civilians, including eight children and a senior citizen, have reportedly been killed in an airstrike on the village of Vuilu, Burma, by the country’s military junta.”All the children were under the age of 12 and two of them are the teacher’s children,” National Unity Government official Ngai Tam Maung…

Mohamed Muizzu was sworn in Friday as the Maldives’ president, succeeding Ibrahim Solih.Muizzu, a conservative Islamist largely seen as sympathetic to China, defeated Solih in an upset in September’s election.Muizzu vowed upon inauguration that the archipelagic nation’s “lines of independence and sovereignty will be drawn clearly,” and doubled down on…

One woman died and 19 people were rescued after a dinghy carrying migrants to Greece capsized off an islet in the eastern Aegean Sea near the Turkish coast Friday, Greek authorities said.A coast guard statement said the woman was found unconscious in the water and was pronounced dead in hospital…

BERLIN (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Germany Friday on a short visit overshadowed by the two countries’ very different stances on the war between Israel and Hamas.Erdogan was welcomed by Germany’s largely ceremonial president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, ahead of an evening meeting with Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Scholz…

LONDON (AP) — British author A.S. Byatt, who wove history, myth and a sharp eye for human foibles into books that included the Booker Prize-winning novel “Possession,” has died at the age of 87.Byatt’s publisher, Chatto & Windus, said Friday that the author, whose full name was Antonia Byatt, died…

Terrorists attacked U.S. military bases in Iraq and Syria on Friday, striking three facilities with one-way drones and leaving at least one soldier injured, a Department of Defense report says. The incidents bring the total number of attacks on U.S. coalition forces to 60 since October 17, the Associated Press is…

BUENOS AIRES – Argentina, the majestic name conjures up images of sizzling steaks, velvety red wine, the sprawling wheat-laden Pampas and towering Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas. The nation is riding high on the glory of Messi and last year’s victory in the World Cup, its first since…

Moscow is trying to bribe its citizens into signing up to serve in the military as Russian President Vladimir Putin watches his forces continue to shrivel up in Ukraine the longer the conflict lasts. “Putin has launched a full-on recruitment drive,” Rebekah Koffler, a strategic military intelligence analyst and the author…