As the clock strikes midnight Dec. 31, the world starts to celebrate the New Year. This celebration often includes traditions, music, food and family. Each country has its own way to celebrate and ...

Ambassador Andre Correa do Lago's appointment as COP30 president was widely welcomed in Brazil by climate campaigners, ...

Japan has formally inaugurated an independent mission to the NATO military alliance as Tokyo and NATO seek to bolster cooperation amid escalating tensions from Russia, China and North Korea ...

while Japan Airlines and JNTO booths provided travel and tourism information. An array of interactive experiences for visitors: Interactive events included a 4Koma Booth for comic fans ...

Tricia Nakamatsu, deputy attorney general, right, spoke at the governor’s office Monday during an update on the Jan. 1 fireworks explosion in Aliamanu. Also shown are Gov. Josh Green ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Phoenix doctors are stepping up to help overwhelmed hospitals in Hawaii after the deadly New Year’s fireworks explosion. At least three people were killed and 20 more were ...

The unit rapidly called for reinforcements, an official said, after it saw the scene early Wednesday: dozens of people injured by an explosion of illegal fireworks outside a home. Two women were ...

Honolulu mayor Rick Blangiardi said in a statement that the explosion was "caused by what appears to be illegal fireworks" Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Department of Health social workers have been going to door to door in the Aliamanu neighborhood where a massive explosion from illegal fireworks killed three women and ...

Hawaii's illegal fireworks problem reached a tragic peak this New Year's when a series of explosions killed three women and injured over 20 people, including children. The blasts occurred when a ...

Each New Year’s Day, Honolulu officials publish a list of fireworks casualties from the night before, typically a litany of burns, shrapnel wounds or amputations. Sometimes there are deaths.

HONOLULU (KHON2) — The New Year’s Day fireworks explosion has left the community grieving and frustrated, but will the tragedy change Hawaii’s complicated relationship with fireworks?