YOKOHAMA (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T) will recall all 1.2 million new passenger cars it sold in Japan over the past three years after discovering final vehicle inspections were not performed by authorized technicians, it said on Monday. The recall is the second major...
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 Japan...
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...
(Middle East Eye)- Syria's grand mufti has sided with India over the Myanmar Rohingya crisis in a TV interview last week. In an attempt to justify attempts to deport up to 40,000 Muslim Rohingya refugees, the Indian government told the country’s top court last week that the Rohingya who...
By Abdullah Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- Representative of the Syrian National Coalition in Washington has revealed the outcomes of the opposition’s High Negotiation Committee visit with Western officials followed the Regular Session of the U.N. General Assembly in September....
U.S.-backed fighters Monday combed through a central district of Syria's Raqqa that once housed key Daesh (ISIS) command centers, recovering communication equipment and weapons used by the militants. The Syrian Democratic Forces have captured around 90 percent of Daesh's one-time...
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 the...
The ruler of Oman received Iran’s foreign minister on Monday, the state news agency ONA reported, in a rare official appearance for the long-time leader. Sultan Qaboos, who is in his late 70s, was pictured in conversation with Iran’s Javad Zarif at al-Shumoukh fort in the state of...
Syria's war killed at least 3,000 people including 955 civilians in September, the deadliest month of the conflict this year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said on Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed and millions displaced since the war erupted in...
RAQQA, Syria (Reuters) - Raqqa’s hospital, a big complex pocked with bullets holes, whose capture will signal the end of Islamic State’s crumbling Syrian capital, lies just 200 yards from a front-line base of the Syrian Democratic Forces. Beyond it, a roundabout where the jihadists once...
Iraqi forces and Shi‘ite paramilitaries captured an air base from Islamic State on Monday, the army said, gaining a strategic foothold in the north of the country as they push toward the town of Hawija. Iraq launched an offensive on September 21 to dislodge Islamic State from...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Hezbollah’s al-Radhwan forces commander Ali al-Aa'shiq has been killed in a blast in Syrian al-Badiya desert along with fellow commander, the Lebanese militia said on Monday. The blow come hours after a U.S. drone bombed Hezbollah bastions in Hamima village east...
At least 15 people were killed on Monday by bombings that targeted a police station in the capital Damascus' Midan neighborhood, pro-government al-Ekhbariah TV reported. Several suicide bombers detonated their explosive belts in front of the police station and inside, according to...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Russia’s warplanes have conducted more than 50 raids since early Monday on eastern Deir Ezzor province, killing at least 14 people in the border town of Albukamal, local monitoring group said. Furat Post said the deadly strikes on the strategic town have topped...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 7 Hezbollah militants killed in a suspected U.S. airstrike on their bastion in the Syrian desert at the enclaves of Deir Ezzor province, source told Zaman al-Wasl on Monday. The death of the Lebanese militia has increased in the last four hours to a total of 20...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The regime army and its allies seized control of nine positions at Syria’s border with Jordan, expanding their control at the southern frontier, Reuters said on Saturday. The captured border positions were located to the southeast of Damascus, the report said, adding...
A group of Turkish graffiti artists has created a number of anti-war murals in Bragitte, a small village in northwestern Syria's Azaz. The village, retaken in the Turkey-led Operation Euphrates Shield, saw the artists use war-ravaged buildings as canvases. Speaking to Anadolu...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - The euro took a knock in Asia on Monday as investors kept an anxious eye on an independence vote in Spain’s Catalonia, while surprisingly strong economic news out of China and Japan offered support to equities and commodities. The euro fell 0.3 percent after the...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Monday, pausing for breath after posting gains of as much as 20 percent in the third quarter, after a survey pointed to a slight increase in OPEC production in September. U.S. crude was down 13 cents, or 0.3 percent, at $51.54 a barrel at 0346 GMT....
