Russian forces launched an armored ground attack on Friday near Ukraine's second city of Kharkiv in the northeast of the country and made small inroads, opening a new front in a war that has long been waged in the east and south ..read more

Washington said it was trying to keep Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas engaged "if only virtually" in Gaza truce efforts as a U.N. agency warned that humanitarian aid stocks in the devastated enclave have hit "the bottom of the barrel ..read more

The Biden administration said Israel may have violated international law in its war against Hamas but won’t stop the flow of weapons and bombs to a key ally ..read more

I always felt that you could get a sense of the Western mother by how she’s depicted on television. From the idealized perfection of Carol Brady on “The Brady Bunch” in the 1970s to the more authentic imperfection of Roseanne Conner on “Roseanne” in the 1990s, American sitcoms always seemed to be where “mom” lived. And in the U.K., mums seemed more complicated, on soap operas like “EastEnders” and “Coronation Street ..read more

In Japanese, the word "senjō kameraman" typically translates to “battlefield cameraman,” but Toko Jinno, 35, uses another reading of the word senjō, “aboard a ship,” to describe her work as a photographer documenting the lives of Hokkaido’s fishermen ..read more

As far as museum architecture goes, the Simose Art Museum in Otake, Hiroshima Prefecture, stands out, echoing the landscape of its inspiration, the Setouchi islands, which play host to their own influential triennale ..read more

South Korea's Naver said on Friday it is exploring various options including the potential sale of its stake in the company that controls LY, which operates the popular messaging app Line ..read more

Junichiro Matsumoto admitted to underreporting political funds totaling ¥670 million ($4.3 million) in the period from 2018 to 2022 ..read more

The way artists here have joined the feud between two of rap's biggest names says more about hip-hop beefs in Japan than you realize ..read more

Japan Post and Seino Transportation have reached a basic agreement to work together on joint long-haul truck operations ..read more