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By Colin Packham CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia will allow a Sri Lankan asylum seeker family detained on Christmas Island since 2019 to live in community detention on the mainland after public anger o...

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean's military began annual drills on Tuesday around a set of islands also claimed by Japan, days after planned talks between the two countries' leaders were...

By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) - Asian shares rose early on Tuesday, tracking Wall Street higher, though investors looked to a much-anticipated Federal Reserve policy meeting to see if the central b...

PEORIA, Ill. — Peoria Public Schools (PPS) Superintendent Dr. Sharon Desmoulin-Kherat proposed a new, compromised three tier schedule for the 2021-22 school year that was met with some backlash ...

(Reuters) - Katie Ledecky took care of business securing her ticket to Tokyo on Monday with yet another dominating win in the 400 metres freestyle at the U.S. Olympic swimming trials. The world record...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Tuesday, with Brent gaining for a fourth consecutive session, as the prospect of extra supply coming to the market soon from Iran faded with talks dragging on over...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Tuesday denied a media report that South Korean President Moon Jae-In is arranging a visit to Japan timed with the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, as well as talks with Japanese Prime ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Senior Olympics official John Coates arrived in Tokyo on Tuesday as Games organisers prepared to unveil their latest "playbook" of rules to control COVID-19 infections and the govern...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An Australian mother has denied a media report her teenage son was forced to wear a women's swimsuit as punishment by a coach amid scrutiny of the country's elite swimming cultur...

By Elaine Lies and Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - When Paul Noritaka Tange won the rights to design the Aquatics Centre for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, one of the first things he did was to visit the ...