World shares have advanced and Tokyo's Nikkei 225 share index jumped as much as 5% after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party secured a two-thirds supermaj
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecut
U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent rhetoric about taking control of Greenland has stirred up national pride in Denmark, which oversees the semiautonomous island
A coalition of nations and environmental groups is lobbying the International Maritime Organization to create regulations around black carbon, or soot, that spews from ships a
The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms