Shohei Ohtani has spoken out amid the investigation into the gambling allegations involving his former interpreter. After Ippei Mizuhara was charged with felony bank fraud this week after allegedly stealing $16 million from Ohtani to cover gambling debts, the Japanese superstar opened up about the process. The Dodgers’ designated hitter said he’s “grateful” with where things are going but hopes to keep the focus on baseball going forward. “I’m very grateful for the Department of Justice’s investigation,” Ohtani said in Japanese on Friday, according to the Los Angeles Times. “For...

South Korea's defence ministry said it believed that Pyongyang's leader Kim Jong Un entered Russia early Tuesday on his heavily armoured private train, ahead of a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.

"The Ministry of National Defense believes that North Korea's Kim Jong Un entered Russia early this morning using a private train," it said, after the North's state media and the Kremlin confirmed Kim's trip, his first out of the country in four years.

Videos are circulating online of air raid sirens warning residents of the South Korean capital to evacuate after North Korea said its launch of a military satellite had failed. In clips posted to social media, wailing air raid sirens can be heard in Seoul, with residents urged to seek shelter. In an excerpt of a news broadcast from South Korea, an air raid siren interrupts two television anchors live on air. The alerts came after months of heightened tensions in the region, marking Pyongyang's sixth attempt to put a satellite...