This year’s Tokyo Comic Con has even more big-name celebrities and iconic movie props than ever, some on display for the first time.

The Chinese Communist Party decided to suspend Admiral Miao Hua - who has headed the powerful political work department of its Central Military Commission since 2017 - pending an investigation, Wu Qian, a Defense Ministry spokesman, said at a news briefing Thursday.

The Air Force has promoted 439 active-duty officers to either colonel or major during the M0624A and M0424A central selection boards. The service members who were promoted serve in the Dental and Medical Service Corps. Stripes would like to thank them for their service.

In response to criticism over its operations in Xinjiang, Volkswagen earlier said an audit it commissioned found no evidence of forced labor at the facility, but it was considering options for its future.

Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing seized power from elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021 and is accused of crimes against humanity for forcing nearly a million people into neighboring Bangladesh to escape what has been called an ethnic cleansing campaign.

South Korea’s president on Wednesday met a visiting Ukraine delegation and called for the two countries to formulate countermeasures in response to the threat posed by North Korea’s recent dispatch of more than 10,000 soldiers to support Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Each had been designated by the U.S. government as wrongfully detained. One had been facing a death sentence on drug charges while two were imprisoned on espionage charges.

Four dogs have deployed aboard East Coast-based warships since 2023 as part of a small-scale test. The test is part of a quality-of-life initiative the Navy launched in 2022 in the wake of a cluster of sailor suicides.

A South Korean court handed a suspended sentence to an American soldier convicted of smuggling synthetic cannabis into the country via military mail.

Hundreds of runners gathered Wednesday morning at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo to honor eight airmen who died in an Osprey crash off Japan’s coast a year ago.

The most severe November snowstorm to hit South Korea’s capital in more than a half century blanketed the capital on Wednesday, grounding hundreds of airplane flights and disrupting commuter traffic.

Former President Donald Trump’s reelection could dramatically shift U.S.-South Korean relations and renew questions about whether Seoul should pursue a nuclear weapons program, experts said this week.

Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s staff are reportedly considering efforts to engage in dialogue with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

The USS Abraham Lincoln pulled into Port Klang over the weekend, marking the first U.S. aircraft carrier visit to Malaysia in more than a decade following a high-profile bribery scandal involving a Malaysian contractor.

The USS Minnesota arrived Tuesday at Naval Base Guam, the first Virginia-class fast-attack submarine to be homeported in the strategically important U.S. territory.

For over 30 years, officials in Metz have invited U.S. soldiers who helped liberate the city from Nazi occupation to participate in commemorative ceremonies. The appearance of 101-year-old Ceo Bauer may be the last year a living veteran of the war participates.

Visitors who bought fridge magnets at Times Square or other tourist hotspots around New York in recent years most likely were purchasing the work of Du Jing or one of her fellow exporters in a small Chinese city that supplies the U.S. and the world with tons of small commodities.

A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon surveillance plane flew over the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the first such transit over the 110-mile-wide channel that separates mainland China from Taiwan since mid-September.

Airman 1st Class Dayvon Larry left such an impression at a Florida air base that his unit created a program, Delta Lima, in his memory to promote pride and professionalism.