Japanese lunar exploration firm iSpace will collaborate with the UAE in taking a rover to the moon next year. According to Reuters, the Rashid lunar rover will be built entirely by the...

Head of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Osama Rabie said yesterday that the initial estimate of the losses resulting from Ever Given ship running aground amounted to $1 billion. State-owned Akhbar El-Yom newspaper...

The Russian energy ministry has promoted the use of the Northern Sea route for international shipping as an alternative to Egypt's Suez Canal after a huge shipping container blocked the canal...

A container ship blocking the Suez Canal like a "beached whale" sent new shockwaves through global trade today as officials stopped all ships entering the channel and the salvage...

A much anticipated US foreign policy move under the Biden administration on how to counter China's unhindered economic growth and political ambitions came in the form of a virtual...

Iranian female Olympic medal winner Kimia Alizadeh has been granted refugee status in Germany and aims to compete in the Olympic Refugee Team under a white flag in Tokyo...

An American father and son accused of helping former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan were handed over on Monday to Japanese authorities for extradition from...

A Turkish court convicted an executive of Turkish jet company MNG and two pilots for migrant smuggling over their role in flying former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan during his escape to Lebanon just over a year ago, reports...

An American father and son accused of helping former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee trial in Japan have asked US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to...

Kelly A. Hammond's book China's Muslims and Japan's Empire: Centering Islam in World War II is published at a time when Islam in China is under intense scrutiny with...

Japan yesterday announced the provision of $20.5 million in food aid for Yemen. In an official statement, the Japanese embassy in Yemen said that the funds were aimed at...

In the latest developments in the case of former Nissan and Renault President Carlos Ghosn, a federal judge in Boston rejected on Thursday the latest attempt by a former...

Egyptian exports to Japan have risen to 76 per cent during the first five months of this year, amounting to $176 million compared to $100 million during the same...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today received credentials from envoys of five countries. Erdogan welcomed the new ambassadors of China, Japan, Luxembourg, Latvia and Bangladesh at the presidential complex...

Japan has extended its naval defence mission in the Middle East for one year, local media reported today. The Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) mission will remain in the region...

The first mosque to be built in Japan which continues to serve as such today is Kobe Mosque

Former Chairman of Nissan Carlos Ghosn should receive compensation from the Japanese government for "illegally arresting and detaining him", officials at the UN said yesterday. "Ghosn's deprivation of freedom...

The United States has agreed to extradite to Japan the two US citizens, Michael Taylor, a Special Forces veteran, and his son, Peter Taylor, who are suspected of helping...

Japan has donated $4.3 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) to reduce the impact of poverty under the current coronavirus pandemic. This...

Saudi Aramco and the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ), in partnership with chemical manufacturing giant SABIC, have demonstrated the production and shipment of blue ammonia from Saudi Arabia...

On Thursday 6 August, we were preparing to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. But on Tuesday, we were...

The first of three similar missions to take place this month

A US judge said on Friday two Massachusetts men pose too great of a risk of flight to be released on bail given "spectacular" allegations that they helped orchestrate...

Carlos Ghosn, the former Nissan Motor Co-chairman, wired $862,500 last year to a company managed by one of the two men who later helped him escape from Japan, U.S....

US authorities brought two men into custody Wednesday at the request of Japan in response to their alleged roles in helping ex-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn flee to Lebanon, Anadolu...

Turkish prosecutors have prepared an indictment charging seven people, including four pilots, over former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn's escape via Istanbul to Lebanon after fleeing Japan, a lawyer for...

Iran is facing "many great problems" with securing medical equipment and food supplies due to "tightening US sanctions", President Hassan Rouhani announced yesterday. Speaking to Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo...

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the International Organisation for Migration with support from the Government of Japan have launched a debris-recycling project in the Iraqi governorate of...

Japanese SoftBank Group yesterday said it was expecting its tech-focused fund, dubbed "Vision Fund", to suffer around $16.5 billion in losses in the last financial year, which ended in...

Leaders of the G20 countries have committed to injecting more than $5 trillion into the global economy to minimise the social and economic damage of the coronavirus pandemic. The...

An eleven-year-old Syrian girl will compete in the upcoming 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo after winning the West Asia Olympic Table Tennis Qualification Tournament in Jordan last week. Hend...

In security camera footage, a Japanese woman can be seen holding a phone up, as if filming, as the Palestinian woman shouts “corona, corona”.