(Reuters) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a unilateral Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, ordering his forces to end hostilities at 6 p.m. Moscow time on Saturday until the end of Sunday.

TOKYO -- Japan is considering expanding American rice exports as part of trade negotiations with the U.S., in a bid to ...

DUBAI/TOKYO -- Saudi Arabia is reaching out to Japan as part of a high-profile, big-money effort to make sports a pillar of a more diverse economy. The oil-rich kingdom scored a big win when it was ...

SAO PAULO (AP) -- Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will meet with Russia's Vladimir Putin in Moscow and China's Xi Jinping in Beijing, two important partners for the South American giant, ...

SHIZUOKA, Japan -- The town office of Higashiizu, along a peninsula southwest of Tokyo well known for its hot springs, has come up with a novel approach to attracting tourists, unstaffed souvenir ...

Iran's benchmark TEDPIX stock index has climbed 7.3% since early April. The rial has surged 17% to 880,000 against the dollar ...

DUBAI (Reuters) -- Iran and the U.S. will hold a new round of nuclear talks in Rome on Saturday to resolve their decades-long standoff over Tehran's atomic aims, under the shadow of President Donald ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -- Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km ...

BANGKOK/YANGON -- Heineken and other international players have gained the upper hand in Myanmar's beer market as drinkers in ...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Shohei Ohtani is away from the Los Angeles Dodgers for the birth of the two-way superstar's first child. Manager Dave Roberts said before the Dodgers' series opener Friday ...

TOKYO -- As Japan increasingly relies on foreign nationals to address its labor shortage, attention is turning to how the country accommodates religious and cultural practices, especially for Muslims.

HOBART, Australia -- It is no faster than walking, and it is one of the most physically taxing forms of travel. But the ...