Asia Pacific

TOKYO (AP) — The brazen assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abewith a handmade gun shocked a nation unused to high-profile political violence.But there has been another surprise in the weeks since the murder as…

LONDON (AP) — It’s not just the economy. While inflation and recession fearsweigh heavily on the minds of voters, another issue is popping up in political campaigns from the U.K. and Australia to the U.S. and beyond: the “China…

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a…

TOKYO (AP) — Hiroshima on Saturday remembered the atomic bombing 77 years ago as officials, including the head of the United Nations, warned against nuclear weapons buildup and as fears grow of another such attack amid Russia’s war on…