A hotel in the Japanese city of Kyoto allegedly canceled an Israeli tourist's reservation because of "war crimes," drawing criticism from local officials who said it violated regulations.
The tourist received a Whatsapp message from an employee at (...)
The world's largest crime prevention and criminal justice gathering wrapped up on Friday, rejecting "the divisions and inequalities" exposed by COVID-19, according to the top UN crime-fighting official.
We have strengthened "crime prevention and (...)
Held in an innovative hybrid format amid COVID-19 restrictions, the 14th UN Congress on criminal justice opened on Sunday in Kyoto with calls for renewing global cooperation against crime to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and (...)
A man suspected of torching an animation studio and killing 33 people in Japan's worst mass killing in two decades had been convicted of robbery and carried out the attack because he believed his novel had been plagiarized, media said on (...)
The Secretary General Faisal bin Abdulrahman bin Muammar of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) has commended the important efforts undertaken by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under (...)
The Secretary General of Muslim World League (MWL) Sheikh Dr. Mohammed bin Abdul-Karim Al-Issa has warned of some entities that have gone through failed experiments that tried to lay the foundations of human society on the basis of comprehensive and (...)
New Zealand will face archrival South Africa in the 2019 Rugby World Cup pool stage in Japan and Six Nations champion England was again drawn in the toughest pool of the tournament Wednesday.
The All Blacks, the two-time defending champions, have (...)
An explosion blamed on a gas generator injured 59 people at a fireworks festival in Japan, 19 of them critically, UPI quoted authorities as saying.
Five people, including a 10-year-old boy, suffered what might be life-threatening injuries, Kyodo (...)
Fifty-eight people were taken to hospital Thursday following an explosion at a fireworks festival venue in Kyoto Prefecture, police and local firefighters said.
Of the 58, 14 are seriously injured including two who suffered burns over their entire (...)
Strong criticism of Zimbabwe's "sham"
elections and hopes for progress on North Korea's denuclearization
set the tone Friday at the final day of the Kyoto meeting of the
foreign ministers of the world's seven leading economies and Russia, (...)
The foreign ministers of the Group of Eight
(G8) on Thursday started a two-day meeting in Japan as international
attention focused on North Korea's long-expected declaration of its
nuclear programme and facilities, according to DPA.
The United (...)
The foreign ministers of the Group of Eight
(G8) on Friday condemned chaos and violence in Zimbabwe and denied
the country's election had any legitimacy as President Robert Mugabe
went ahead with a one-man poll, according to DPA.
"This kind of (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Friday
that when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012, developing countries
would ask the established industrialized countries that signed it
whether they had met the treaty's goals to reduce greenhouse (...)
The Asian Development Bank may end its
long-standing rejection of nuclear energy and embrace it as
a green power source for rapidly expanding Asia, AP quoted the bank's
energy chief as saying Friday.
The ADB, which was founded four decades ago (...)
U.S. President George W. Bush arrived in Japan on Tuesday, starting a week-long Asia trip aimed at bolstering allied unity on North Korea, pushing for freer trade and urging joint action against the bird flu threat, Reuters reported.
Senior aides (...)
term commitment to improving the environment.
He said there should also be some kind of link between the market mechanisms for controlling emissions foreseen in the Kyoto Protocol and those developed outside of it, mostly in the United (...)
Japan and China agreed on Saturday to try to improve strained ties and meet soon to discuss a disputed gas field, but the two Asian giants remain at odds over their wartime past, a Japanese official said, according to Reuters.
Japanese Foreign (...)
Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka
Machimura on Saturday said he reiterated to his Chinese
counterpart Tokyo's demands for an apology and compensation
following anti-Japan riots in China last month.
Machimura and Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing met (...)
a protocol that goes into effect early next year after Russia approved the treaty - expire after 2012, when the first phase ends.
Tritten has targetted the refusal by the United States to join the convention, as the producer of 25 per cent of the (...)
