Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Thursday his Cabinet won’t meet to approve the agreement for a ...

TAIPEI, TAIWAN - China initiated a new round of diplomatic outreach to Japan and the European Union this week as Washington prepares for President-elect ...

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Friday's Cabinet the additional sanctions shows Japan's commitment to the Group of Seven's effort to strengthen sanctions against Russia over its ...

Japan's Cabinet has approved new sanctions against Russia, targeting individuals, organizations, and exports. This move ...

Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved additional sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine, including freezing the assets of dozens of individuals and groups and banning exports to dozens of ...

Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved additional sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine, including freezing the assets of dozens of individuals and groups and banning exports to dozens of ...

And why didn’t it cut off Russia’s natural gas earlier? By Marc Santora Andrew Higgins and Stanley Reed Marc Santora reported from Kyiv, Ukraine; Andrew Higgins from Warsaw; and Stanley Reed ...

When Russia’s first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin, resigned on New Year’s Eve in 1999, he publicly implored Vladimir Putin, his handpicked but little-known successor ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Add to the tension that Putin’s Russia has been engaged in a covert war against Ukraine since 2014, which he had turned into a full-scale ...

Nearly three years into its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia's military has taken painful hits, but has poured resources into making sure it can regenerate its military forces battling on ...