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Asian stock markets are higher after the Federal Reserve said more U.S. interest rate hikes might be needed to cool inflation.

Asian stock markets are mixed after the U.S. economy contracted and China reported stronger factory activity.

Novak Djokovic’s play was not particularly perfect at Wimbledon.

In Gee Chun shot a 3-over 75 on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead into the final round of the Women’s PGA Championship.

In Gee Chun shot a 3-under 69 to lead by six strokes after the second round of the Women’s PGA Championship.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un doubled-down on his nuclear arms buildup in face of “hostile forces” as he wrapped up a key military meeting in capital Pyongyang where officials approved unspecified new operational duties for front-line army units

South Korea has canceled its effort to visit the space rock Apophis during a close, but harmless, flyby of our Earth in 2029, according to a media report.

Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street edged lower amid fears higher interest rates will chill global economic activity.

An 18-year-old from South Korea has won the 16th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, one of the top showcases for the world’s best pianists.

An 18-year-old from South Korea has won the 16th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, one of the top showcases for the world's best pianists. The competition held in Fort Worth, Texas, ended Saturday night with Yunchan Lim becoming the competition's youngest winner of the gold medal. The silver medalist was Anna Geniushene, a 31-year-old from Russia, and the bronze medalist is Dmytro Choni, a 28-year-old from Ukraine.

North Korea on Thursday reported the eruption of another infectious disease in addition to its ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, saying leader Kim Jong Un has donated his private medicines to those stricken with the new disease. It’s unclear how serious the new epidemic is, but some outside observers say North Korea likely aims to burnish Kim’s image as a leader caring about public livelihoods as he needs greater public support to overcome pandemic-related hardships. Kim on Wednesday offered his family’s reserve medicines for those diagnosed with “an acute enteric epidemic” in the southwestern Haeju city, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.

North Korea's state media say leader Kim Jong Un and his top deputies are pushing for a crackdown on officials who abuse their power and commit other “unsound and non-revolutionary acts."

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his top deputies have pushed for a crackdown on officials who abuse their power and commit other “unsound and non-revolutionary acts," state media reported Monday, as Kim seeks greater internal unity to overcome a COVID-19 outbreak and economic difficulties. It wasn’t clear what specific acts were mentioned at the ruling Workers’ Party meeting on Sunday. Kim and other senior party secretaries discussed “waging more intensive struggle against unsound and non-revolutionary acts including abuse of power and bureaucratism revealed among some party officials,” the official Korean Central News Agency said.

Joo-Rei Mathieson was one of the lucky kids, escaping a brutal South Korean facility where thousands of children and adults — mostly grabbed off the streets — were enslaved and often killed, raped and beaten in the 1970s and 1980s.

The earliest photo Joo-Rei Mathieson has of herself was taken when she was about 4. The black-and-white mugshot is from a November 1982 Brothers Home intake document that describes Mathieson as a lost street kid brought in by police. It notes that she’s “capable of labor” — chillingly for a government-sponsored vagrants’ facility that survivors have told The Associated Press often worked children to death.

The summer heat can have everyone looking for a way to cool down, and a frozen treat is a great way to do it. Bingsu is a traditional Korean dessert made from shaved ice, drizzled with condensed milk, and finished with various toppings. You can try this tasty treat at Myomee, a coffee and dessert cafe inside New Seoul Plaza in Southfield, and while you're there, check out their K-Pop pop-up store!

This year's concert series is being advertised with slogans such as "so much water that it will make you wonder if we scooped up the Han River."

The joint exercise comes after North Korea test-fired several ballistic missiles on Sunday.

Asian shares have risen amid mixed signs for investors such as rising energy prices and COVID-19 restrictions easing in China.

Asian shares are mostly lower, echoing a decline on Wall Street as investors fret about higher interest rates and rising coronavirus cases in parts of the region.

The shape that the metaverse will take is still unknown, but South Korea is betting on the fledgling industry as the next big thing.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and other top officials discussed revising stringent anti-epidemic restrictions during a meeting Sunday, state media reported, as they maintained a widely disputed claim that the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak is slowing. The discussion at the North’s Politburo meeting suggests it will soon relax a set of draconian curbs imposed after its admission of the omicron outbreak this month out of concern about its food and economic situations. Kim and other Politburo members “made a positive evaluation of the pandemic situation being controlled and improved across the country,” the official Korean Central News Agency said.

About two weeks after North Korea acknowledged its first domestic COVID-19 outbreak, it says about 3.3 million people have come down with fever but only 69 have died

BTS will reveal their gradual journey to becoming K-pop superstars through a new Apple Music weekly limited series.

The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 13-2 and marked a first serious division among the five veto-wielding permanent members of the U.N.'s most powerful body.

China has reiterated its opposition to new sanctions against North Korea

China and Russia have vetoed a U.N. resolution sponsored by the United States that would have imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea for its spate of intercontinental ballistic missile launches that can be used to deliver nuclear weapons.

The Australian, New Zealand and Norwegian militaries have also tested electric bikes for reconnaissance and patrol.

Russia could soon make a direct assault on Severodonetsk, one of the largest eastern cities still under Ukrainian control.

New laws should be created to prevent people from committing "murder" in the metaverse, according to the UAE's minister of state for artificial intelligence.

L.A. Dodgers co-owner Todd Boehly and a consortium received a license to acquire the club for $5.3 billion. Abramovich will not receive the proceeds.

Swedish and Finnish delegations are also in Turkey to discuss their NATO membership bids.

Russia and China flew strategic bombers over the Sea of Japan and East China Sea while President Biden was in Tokyo on Tuesday.

Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street sank on weak U.S. housing sales and a profit warning by a prominent social media brand.

As in Europe, where Vladimir Putin’s assault is uniting the region against him, so too in Asia is an aggressive China entrenching American power.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen accused Russia of “trying to trample the aspirations of an entire nation with tanks.”

The anti-ship missiles have been compared to the Javelins that have destroyed many Russian tanks during the war.

More than 2 million Ukrainians have crossed back into the country, in a sign that a semblance of normalcy is returning to some areas outside the east.

The Pentagon announced Monday that about 20 countries have pledged new security assistance packages for Ukraine, including new anti-ship missiles, additional attack helicopters and tanks.

The altered stamp release comes after Ukrainian forces, backed by U.S. intelligence, attacked the Moskva, the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, which later sank, in a symbolic setback for the Russian invasion.

President Biden says proposed trade deal will help the U.S. remain a leading force in Asia.

In a letter circulated to colleagues in Geneva and posted on a LinkedIn account in his name, Boris Bondarev, counsellor at the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, said he had left the civil service Monday.

Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to killing an unarmed civilian.

Ukraine says Russia is using "scorched earth" tactics in Severodonetsk after its seizure of the port city of Mariupol.

President Joe Biden said he does not believe an economic recession is inevitable in the U.S. Biden, in Tokyo, acknowledged the U.S. economy has “problems” but said they were "less consequential than the rest of the world has.” (May 23)

Ahead of the World Economic Forum, a Ukrainian group transformed the former gathering space for Russian business and government leaders, who were not invited.

President Volodymyr Zelensky is set to virtually address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the war in Ukraine is likely to dominate talks.

The countries have made clear in recent days how much strategic importance they place on semiconductors — including export controls to China.

The isolated East Asian country has only stated how many people have fevers daily, and has only identified a few of the cases as COVID-19 since admitting to an outbreak of the omicron variant.

A large number of North Koreans including leader Kim Jong Un attended a funeral for a top official, state media reported Monday, as the country maintained the much-disputed claim that its suspected coronavirus outbreak is subsiding. Since admitting earlier this month to an outbreak of the omicron variant, North Korea has only stated how many people have fevers daily, and has only identified a few of the cases as COVID-19. Its state media said Monday that 2.8 million people have fallen ill due to an unidentified fever but only 68 of them died since late April, an extremely low fatality rate if the illness is COVID-19 as suspected.

In a rare joint interview, Ukraine’s first lady said: "Nobody takes my husband away from me, not even the war."

Biden said the U.S. is exploring "what vaccine if any might be available for it."

It means the viral outbreak has spread to 14 countries with more than 80 cases detected so far.

President Joe Biden says cases of monkeypox are “something that everybody should be concerned about.”.

President Joe Biden has signed legislation granting Ukraine another $40 billion in U.S. support as it continues to battle a Russian invasion.

After bar-hopping Thursday night, one of the employees had an "altercation" with a local taxi driver, a source familiar with the situation said.

The White House has been bracing itself for a "genuine possibility" there will be either a missile test or a nuclear test during Biden's first visit to Asia as president.

Asian stock markets have advanced after Wall Street fell closer to bear territory, China cut a key interest rate and Japanese inflation rose.

President Joe Biden hopes to use his visit to Asia to confirm his belief that long-standing friendships can afford to become even friendlier — and pay dividends.

North Korea on Wednesday reported 232,880 new cases of fever and another six deaths as leader Kim Jong Un accused officials of “immaturity” and “slackness” in handling the escalating COVID-19 outbreak

North Korea on Monday reported eight new deaths and 392,920 more people with fever symptoms amid a growing COVID-19 outbreak as leader Kim Jong Un blasted officials over delays in medicine deliveries and ordered his military to get involved in the pandemic response in the country’s capital, Pyongyang

North Korea says it has confirmed 15 more deaths and hundreds of thousands of additional patients with fever amid the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak

North Korea’s recent admission of its first domestic COVID-19 cases has surprised many outsiders and prompted speculation about how bad the outbreak is and whether it could cause a major humanitarian crisis in a country where public medical infrastructure is terrible

Asian shares have bounced back after losses earlier in the week, shrugging off the latest data showing U.S. wholesale prices soared 11% in April from a year earlier.

North Korea said Friday six people died and nearly 190,000 are under quarantine following a rapid spread of fever across the nation in recent weeks, a day after it first acknowledged a COVID-19 outbreak in a largely unvaccinated population

South Korea says North Korea has fired a total of three short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea

State media report the country's first outbreak, but observers believe the virus has long been present.

North Korea announced its first coronavirus infection more than two years into the pandemic Thursday as leader Kim Jong Un called for raising COVID-19 preventive measures to maximum levels. The Korean Central News Agency said tests from an unspecified number of people in the capital Pyongyang confirmed they were infected with the omicron variant. The agency said Kim called a meeting of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party’s Politburo where members decided to raise its anti-virus measures.

During second gentleman Emhoff's visit, a top adviser to South Korea's new president was in the headlines for saying that homosexuality can be "treated" like smoking.

Shares are lower in Asia after declines in stocks in technology companies led heavy selling on Wall Street following the release of price data that was worse than expected.

Yoon Suk-yeol is not going to “have much of a honeymoon period,” said Kathleen Stephens, president and CEO of the Korea Economic Institute of America.

The Senate has voted to confirm Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F.

Asian shares are mixed in light “Golden Week" trading with markets in China, Japan and some other countries closed for holidays.

Automaker Stellantis says it will invest $3.6 billion Canadian dollars, about $2.8 billion, to upgrade two Canadian assembly plants and expand a research center as it accelerates its long-term electrification strategy.

South Korea will ease its outdoor mask mandate starting next week as COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations continue to decline.

Asian shares have mostly retreated, tracking losses on Wall Street after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell indicated increases in interest rates must be faster to fight inflation.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after China reported that its economy expanded at a 4.8% annual pace in the last quarter.

North Korea says it has successfully test-launched a newly developed tactical guided weapon.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has attended a massive civilian parade in the capital Pyongyang to celebrate a milestone birth anniversary of his state-founding grandfather.

South Korea will remove most pandemic restrictions, including indoor gathering limits, as it slowly wiggles out of an omicron outbreak officials say is stabilizing.

Asian shares are mostly higher after an advance on Wall Street that ended a three-day losing streak.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia and oil prices have risen after a tech-driven rally on Wall Street.

South Korea will ease some of its pandemic restrictions starting next week as officials express cautious hope the worst of its omicron outbreak has passed.

Asian stock markets are lower after Chinese manufacturing weakened and Russian shelling around Ukraine’s capital jolted hopes of progress in peace talks.

Stocks have fallen in Asia following a retreat on Wall Street as crude oil prices rose sharply.

Asian shares have gained following a rally on Wall Street led by technology companies, although investor concerns persist about the war in Ukraine and inflation.

Electric vehicle battery maker LG Energy Solution, a joint-venture partner with automaker General Motors, plans a $1.7 billion expansion in western Michigan that will add up to 1,200 jobs by 2025.

Jessie Elliott has spent most of her life in Metro Detroit, well known in prominent philanthropic, social and business circles. You would never imagine that the confident and successful business entrepreneur today suffered from such traumatic and unthinkable experiences.

Officials in South Korea tried to calm public fears amid concerns about a faltering pandemic response as daily cases and deaths reached record highs Thursday.

Asian shares have risen as investors await a widely anticipated decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve on interest rate policy.

The Biden administration says two North Korean missile launches in recent weeks were in fact test-firings of a new long-range ICBM.

The United States and 10 other countries are condemning North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch and urging the U.N. Security Council to act.

Asian stock markets have rebounded and oil prices climbed after the head of the Federal Reserve said he supports a smaller rise in interest rates than some expected.

Asian shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks recovered toward the end of a wild trading day, as the world slapped sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

Asian stock markets have plunged and oil prices surged to nearly $100 per barrel after President Vladimir Putin announced Russian military action in Ukraine.

The United Nations’ independent investigator on human rights in North Korea has called for the international community to provide 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to the isolated authoritarian nation, which has recently showed signs of easing one of the world’s most restrictive pandemic border closures.

Despite a win in the final game of round robin play, Canada's women's curling team was eliminated following a tiebreak. Great Britain and Japan took the final two spots in the semifinals.

Sweden clinched its spot in the women's curling semifinals, while South Korea got closer to the final four and Canada got further away.

Choi Min-Jeong of South Korea won the final short track event at the 2022 Winter Olympics, the women's 1500m.

Canada won the men's 5000m relay gold medal in the final men's short track competition of the Winter Olympics.