At least one person died on Thursday after a magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit Indonesia’s eastern province of Maluku, damaging buildings and sending people fleeing to the hills, officials and witnesses said. Disaster officials said the early morning quake, initially measured at a magnitude of 6.8, woke residents of towns such as the provincial capital of […]

United States President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe signed a limited trade deal on Wednesday that cuts tariffs on US farm goods, Japanese machine tools and other products while further staving off the threat of higher US car duties. Trump said the first-phase deal would open up Japanese markets to some $7 […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani demanded on Wednesday that the United States “pay more” for any agreement that goes beyond the 2015 Iran nuclear deal that Washington abandoned. Rouhani also rejected meeting United States President Donald Trump while the two are in New York this week for the annual United Nations General Assembly, but both U.S. […]

The woman who started France’s #MeToo campaign to encourage other women to expose their sexual harassers has lost a defamation case brought by a man she accused of harassment. Sandra Muller was ordered to pay €20,000 ($22,000, £17,500) in damages and fees to ex-TV boss Éric Brion, who she said had flirted with her inappropriately. […]

There is no chance that the presidents of the United States, Donald Trump and Iran, Raohani will meet during the United Nations General Assembly this week, an Iranian official told Reuters on Wednesday, “Zero,” said the official on condition of anonymity as Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani prepared to give a speech at the annual gathering […]