TOKYO (Reuters) - Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, whose new party is challenging Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc in the Oct. 22 national election, said she would “100 percent” not run in the poll, the latest twist in a drama giving voters whiplash. Speculation has...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares rose on Tuesday, taking heart from record closes on Wall Street and upbeat economic data that lifted U.S. Treasury yields and the dollar, even as weaker oil prices took their toll on energy stocks. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside...
SRINAGAR (Reuters) - Indian police on Tuesday killed two militants who attacked a security camp next to the main airport in the disputed Kashmir region, officials said. One Indian security official was also killed during the attack and three officers were wounded, Kashmir police chief...
Iran deployed a dozen tanks supported by artillery at its border with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region on Monday, a Kurdish official said, adding that the move was a dangerous escalation in the crisis triggered by Iraqi Kurdistan’s independence vote. “The tanks can be seen from...
