A military court in Myanmar has given a life prison sentence to a local journalist and sentenced one of his colleagues to 20 years after convicting them under a counterterrorism law, their editor said Wednesday.

Service members, military civilians and their families stationed overseas who live and breathe NFL football will get to see every moment of the 2024 season all the way to the Super Bowl on American Forces Network’s free video-on-demand app.

China’s foreign minister on Wednesday said Taiwan’s independence poses the greatest threat to stability in the immediate region but vowed no new action that could bring Beijing into conflict with the United States or others amid rising tensions.

Second Amendment activists in Hawaii are celebrating a recent legal change that allows them to carry not just guns but other weapons — from battle-axes to butterfly knives — openly in public.

All events scheduled for Friday and Saturday, including Yokota football game in South Korea, are postponed or canceled.

Japan was preparing for powerful typhoon as it slowly approached the country’s southwest at a bicycle speed.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of an upgraded multiple rocket launcher this week at an unspecified location, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

Rice has become scarce or gone completely missing from shelves at some stores in Japan thanks to the threat of a megaquake, typhoons and a weeklong national holiday.

Pfc. Dewayne Arthur Johnson II, the Hawaii-based soldier whose pregnant wife Mischa Johnson went missing a month ago, has been charged with making false statements, obstructing justice and distributing child pornography.

Chinese EVs can sell for as little as $12,000, and the country’s factories have enough capacity to meet much of the world’s demand. Chinese officials argue their production would aid a transition to a green economy. But Canada’s deputy prime minister said China’s state-directed production is “designed to cripple our own industry.”

The Balochistan Liberation Army claimed that 800 of its well-trained fighters took part in the shootings and bombings that began late Sunday and killed over 50 people. The attacks indicate that the BLA, which has targeted security forces for years in small-scale attacks and is allied with the Pakistani Taliban, is now much more organized.

Myanmar’s junta is on the verge of being expelled from a western-most state bordering Bangladesh, according to a new report, marking one of the biggest military losses since a 2021 coup led to renewed civilian conflict across the country.

Chinese government-backed hackers have penetrated deep into U.S. internet service providers in recent months to spy on their users, according to people familiar with the ongoing American response and private security researchers.

The U.S. military is open to consultations about escorting Philippine ships in the disputed South China Sea, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said Tuesday amid a spike in hostilities between Beijing and Manila in the disputed waters.

Japan through diplomatic channels protested as “completely unacceptable” the first-ever incursion into its airspace by a Chinese military aircraft this week.

A Japanese flag, brought to America by a U.S. soldier who served in the Philippines during World War II, has returned home.

U.S. and South Korean representatives met for another round of negotiations to determine South Korea’s bill for maintaining an American troop presence for the next six years.

Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security adviser, is meeting over two days with Wang Yi, a senior foreign policy official. The meetings could lay the groundwork for a possible final summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping before President Joe Biden steps down.

The immunization clinic at Kadena Air Base reopened this week after an investigation into ineffective vaccines administered May 3 through July 29.