Immigration-shy Japan accepts very few refugees -- last year it pledged to receive up to 150 Syrian students over five years from 2017, despite having a population of about 127 million. In 2015 it took in 27 refugees. During the talks in Washington Abe is expected to propose plans to create hundreds of thousands of jobs in the United States, Kyodo News reported this week, citing unnamed Japanese government sources. Trump has threatened punitive tariffs on imports into the US in a bid to force manufacturers, domestic and foreign, to produce and hire there. Officials are also arranging for Abe and Trump to continue their discussions the next day at Trump's estate in Florida where they could play golf, the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's biggest newspaper, reported

Al-Qaeda in Yemen has taken over three southern towns just days after a deadly US special operations raid targeting its commanders, a securi...