Upcoming review out of Tokyo will reportedly say missile programme poses ‘serious and imminent threat’   Japan’s government will reportedly state that North Korea is capable of miniaturising nuclear warheads in a forthcoming defence report, it has emerged. Tokyo will upgrade its estimate of the regime’s nuclear capability, having said ...

President tweets demand for 1% reduction and more QE as markets look to central banks to bolster global economy   Stock markets have been boosted by the growing prospect of more stimulus measures by central banks and governments across the world as Donald Trump heaped more pressure on the Federal ...

Fears groundbreaking technology could crack all existing forms of encryption   More than a decade ago, Chinese physicist Pan Jian-Wei returned home from Europe to help oversee research into some of the most important technology of the 21st century. At a conference in Shanghai this summer, Mr Pan and his team ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would likely wait until after Israel’s Sept. 17 elections to release a peace plan for the region that was designed by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner. Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, is the main architect of a proposed $50 billion economic development plan ...

Shipping data show vessel moving as territory rejects final US request to hold it longer   The Iranian supertanker at the centre of a diplomatic row between Britain and Iran left Gibraltar on Sunday night, according to shipping data. The marine traffic monitoring site Refinitiv showed the vessel moving away ...

Organisers claim more than one million people attend pro-democracy demonstration   Hong Kong saw its first weekend without tear gas in weeks, even as anti-government protesters brought streets to a standstill on Sunday as hundreds of thousands of people marched despite police objection. Protesters marched from Victoria Park, where a rally ...

CAIRO (Reuters) – Seventeen people have died and 32 have been injured in an explosion outside Egypt’s National Cancer Institute in central Cairo, Egypt’s health ministry said early on Monday. A car driving against traffic on Cairo’s corniche collided with three other cars, causing the explosion, Egypt’s interior ministry said ...

Sales of Japanese-branded autos in South Korea slumped in July amid a worsening diplomatic row between the two countries that has led to consumer boycotts and efforts by Seoul to cut the economy’s reliance on imports from Japan. Industry data out of South Korea on Monday showed Toyota Motor sales in the country tumbled 32% ...

An indefinite security lockdown was in place in the Indian-controlled portion of divided Kashmir on Monday, stranding millions in their homes as authorities also suspended some internet services and deployed thousands of fresh troops around the increasingly tense region. Around midnight, government forces laid steel barricades and razor wire on ...

State media says vessel was taken on Wednesday carrying a cargo of 700,000 litres   Iran claims it has seized a third foreign oil tanker in the Gulf in a further escalation of tensions between Tehran and Washington and its regional allies, who continue to stare each other down over ...