North Korea may have the capacity to launch a warhead loaded with sarin nerve gas, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday, as tensions rise over the country's missile and nuclear programs. Sarin has been used in deadly domestic attacks in Japan, notably in 1995 when the Aum Supreme...

South Korea said Thursday it believed it would be consulted by the United States before any possible preemptive U.S. strike against Pyongyang and China urged the North to halt its nuclear program in exchange for greater protection from Beijing. With a U.S. aircraft carrier group steaming to...

A Yemeni court in the rebel-held capital has sentenced a veteran journalist to death on charges of spying for neighboring Saudi Arabia, the press union and rebel media said Thursday. Since March 2015, oil-rich Saudi Arabia has been leading a deadly military intervention against the rebels...

The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will unveil legislation Thursday to fully legalize recreational marijuana use, making Canada only the second country to do so, after Uruguay. Its legalization and regulation would follow in 2018, in time for Canada's national day on July 1....