Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says Japan's government is drawing up contingency plans in case a crisis on the Korean Peninsula sends an influx of refugees to Japan. Abe told a parliamentary session Monday that the government is formulating measures including protecting foreigners, landing...

Ten people have died and five were injured when a bus veered off a highway and fell into a river in southern China. The Xinhua News Agency reported that four people were reported missing in the accident Monday morning in Guizhou province. The state news agency says the 19-seat bus was...

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence stared across the demilitarized border between North and South Korea Monday, a day after North Korea's failed missile launch, reiterating that the U.S. "era of strategic patience" with Pyongyang was over. Pence is on the first stop of a four-nation Asia tour...

 UK lawmakers are calling on the government to strip Syrian President Bashar Assad's wife of her British citizenship, for supporting her husband's regime during the country's ongoing war. The Liberal Democrats' foreign affairs spokesman, MP Tom Brake, on Sunday accused Assad of...