Violence is raging across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day and France has imposed a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory. French authorities in New Caledonia and the Interior Ministry in Paris reported that five people, including two police officers, have been killed in the violence.

A mayor on Okinawa complained to the Marine Corps this week about the “burden and fear” created in his city by a Marine accused of robbing and attempting to rob convenience stores last month.

Nearly 200 students listened intently as somber notes mixed with dissonant chords — music inspired by the Holocaust and played by Janos Cegledy, one of the few survivors living in East Asia.

The United States and Japan have agreed to develop a defensive weapon to counter the threat from hypersonic missiles, both countries announced this week, signing an agreement to jointly create interceptors to take down the elusive, ultrafast missiles.

Nearly 400 sailors in their dress whites manned the USS Ronald Reagan’s rails Thursday morning as the aircraft carrier steamed out of Tokyo Bay on its final deployment from Japan, concluding nearly a decade of Navy history in the Indo-Pacific region.

A Marine stationed at a U.S. base south of Hiroshima, Japan, was hit and killed by a freight train over the weekend, according to Marine Corps and police spokesmen.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping reaffirmed their “no-limits” partnership that has deepened as both countries face rising tensions with the West, and they criticized U.S. military alliances in Asia and the Pacific region.

The White House is sending an unofficial delegation to Taiwan this weekend for the inauguration of Lai Ching-te, the island’s new president. Beijing, which views Taiwan as part of Chinese territory and vows to seize the island by force if necessary to achieve unification, sees Lai as a supporter of Taiwan’s independence.

The Air Force recently chose two grassroots projects to streamline bomb-loading and weapons system maintenance on warplanes across the service.

A flotilla of about 100 mostly small fishing boats led by Filipino activists sailed to a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, where Beijing’s coast guard and suspected militia ships have used powerful water cannons to ward off what they regard as intruders.

Scouts from the Detroit Tigers, Miami Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays offered a touch of professional training to all-stars from Defense Department schools in the Pacific and the Yokohama Bay Boys, a Japanese high school team. The five-hour event took place on Yokosuka’s Berkey Field.

The commanding general of U.S. Army Pacific stood before hundreds of soldiers from armed forces around the region Tuesday and continually returned to one topic: peace.

Okinawa’s governor has asked for a halt to parachute training at the Air Force base on the prefecture’s main island and for a range of other measures aimed at curbing the impact of U.S. forces stationed there.

Gene Alexzander Scott executed his grandfather in a plot for money then turned the gun on his great-grandmother in a pair of killings on Father’s Day in 2020, prosecutors said as a double-murder trial started Tuesday in Chester County, S.C.

A British woman, Georgia Laurie, fought off a crocodile that attacked her twin sister, Melissa, in Mexico. She’s been awarded the King’s Gallantry Medal.

Robocar supplier sues U.S., disputes alleged Chinese military ties.

In his first trip abroad since securing a fifth term, Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to Beijing on Thursday to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to reinforce ties with China and their joint efforts to push back against a U.S.-led global order.

An Army master sergeant who says he lost a leadership role due partly to his beard and haircut has ignited online debate over both the impact of shaving waivers on careers and the extent to which service members can express themselves on social media.

A U.S. military C-20G Gulfstream, reportedly set to carry the U.S. ambassador to Japan, is cleared to land on the islands of Ishigaki and Yonaguni this week, despite objections by Okinawa prefecture.