Finance Minister Taro Aso said Monday that Tokyo was willing to intervene in currency markets if appreciation of the yen hurt the Japanese economy.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls also laid out new anti-terror measures, months after the deadly Paris attacks claimed lives of 130 people.
In an audio clip released Sunday, Ayman al-Zawahiri also renewed criticism of the Islamic State group, calling its members “extremists and renegades.”
The landslide, triggered on Sunday by heavy rain, hit a hydroelectric power station that was under construction in the country’s southeast.
More than 40,000 square miles of the total search area of 46,332 square miles have so far been scoured, with operations expected to be called off in July.
In a speech Monday, the British prime minister made a “big, bold patriotic case” for staying within the European Union ahead of the June 23 referendum.
Rodrigo Duterte, who said he may kill up to 100,000 criminals if elected, is the favorite to succeed departing President Benigno Aquino.
Finance ministers from the 19-nation eurozone will meet Monday to find common ground between Athens and its international creditors.
Rupert Wingfield-Hayes was detained Friday as he was about to leave the country, along with a BBC producer and cameraman, the network said.
Forty-five percent of people surveyed in Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden said they wanted their own vote on membership in the bloc.
Officials expressed some optimism about defeating the wildfire, but oil sands boomtown Fort McMurray remains off-limits.
At a Workers’ Party congress, the government said it will strengthen self-defensive nuclear weapons capability “in quality and quantity.”
Nearly 15,000 people protested tax hikes and pension cuts, which Greece will implement in exchange for another bailout.
Polls in the days ahead of the vote showed that firebrand mayor and crime-buster Rodrigo Duterte had a comfortable lead.
Three soldiers and 12 militants were reported killed in separate clashes over the weekend.
Operation at cogeneration plants in the fire-ravaged town of Fort McMurray was at about 18 percent Sunday.
The French capital instituted a car-free day the first Sunday of every month, after it saw a dangerous spike in smog in the past several years.
While the decrease reversed an 11.5 percent increase in March, some analysts see improvement in the quarters ahead.
The inferno is set to become Canada’s costliest natural disaster. Meanwhile, about 1 million barrels per day of crude oil production has been lost.
Victory Day, marking the Soviet Union’s finest hour, is an opportunity for the Kremlin to show the world its newest military gear.
A vote on the United Kingdom leaving the European Union is set to take place June 23.
The aerial assault by the Damascus regime aimed to roll back gains made last week by an alliance of Islamist insurgents.
Eight police officers, including a lieutenant, were killed in the deadly attack in the district of Helwan.
Atopodentatus unicus, which existed nearly 242 million years ago, was perhaps the first marine vegetarian reptile that evolved on Earth.
Khurram Zaki, known for his outspoken stance against the Taliban and other radical Islamist groups, was killed at an outdoor cafe in central Karachi.
The death sentences were carried out at the Pule Charkhi prison on the outskirts of Kabul on Sunday.
The militants were killed in shelling north of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Saturday evening.
The latest batch of trade data will do little to ease concerns of investors already worried about the stability of the world’s second-largest economy.
Demonstrators gathered Sunday to condemn a Taiwanese firm, accused of causing mass fish deaths in central coastal provinces.
The incident, triggered by heavy rains, occurred at the construction site of a hydropower project in the country’s Fujian province.