Taiwan closed schools and offices and evacuated hundreds from vulnerable areas around the island Tuesday ahead of a strong typhoon expected to hit its populated western coast after lashing northern ...

Japan's parliament elects Shigeru Ishiba, newly elected governing party leader, as the country's prime minister.

Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter Humberto Ortega, a Sandinista defense minister who later in life became a critic of his older brother President Daniel Ortega, died Monday at 77, Nicaragua's army said.

The Israeli military began what it called a ''limited, localized'' operation against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, carrying out ''targeted ground raids'' in villages close to the ...