ISTANBUL: A former Japanese defense minister on Friday won the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) leadership race and is set next week to become the country’s 102nd prime minister.

Shigeru Ishiba, 67, defeated Economic Security Minister Sanae Ta…

ISTANBUL: Alarmingly shrinking fertility rates are triggering demographic crises in several countries in East and Southeast Asia with increasingly aging populations and dwindling workforces.

South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong and the island nation of …

ISTANBUL: Saudi Arabia has announced the creation of an international alliance aimed at establishing a Palestinian state and implementing a two-state solution.

‘Today, on behalf of the Arab and Islamic nations, along with our European partners, we an…