Tokyo: Official campaigning for Japan’s House of Councilors, known as the upper house of the Diet, began on Thursday. This election is viewed as a pivotal test for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s minority government, which is currently grappling with …

Islamabad: A Czech climber died Thursday after falling into a ravine in Pakistan, according to a mountaineering club in the South Asian nation. Kl¡ra Kolouchov¡, 46, an accomplished mountaineer and the first Czech woman to summit Mt. Everest and K2, w…