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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a joint ministerial meeting of the GCC-U.S. Strategic Partnership in Riyadh to discuss the humanitarian crises in the Gaza, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
U.S. warns ICC action on Israel would hurt cease-fire chances
The U.S. and its allies are concerned that the International Criminal Court may issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials just as the country is getting closer to a ceasefire agreement with Hamas, potentially jeopardizing a deal, people familiar with the matter said.
WORLD / Politics
U.S. implicates five Israeli units in rights violations before Gaza war
The incidents in question took place in October outside of Gaza before conflict broke out between Israel and Hamas.
WORLD / Politics
Xi seems on a mission to drive a wedge between Europe and the U.S.
During his five-day trip to France, Serbia and Hungary on Sunday, Chinese President Xi Jinping plans to show the EU how much China can offer them.
Ukrainian servicemen rest at a side of a road leading toward the Ocheretyne area in the Donetsk region on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 29, 2024
Ukraine warns of 'worsened' front as Russia claims fresh gains
Russian troops are advancing in the eastern Donetsk region even as Kyiv awaits the arrival of much-needed U.S. weapons.
U.S. President Joe Biden disembarks from Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 29, 2024
Inflation overshadows U.S. economic resilience, hurting Biden
By Christopher Condon and Gregory Korte
The U.S. economy being resilient generated one major setback for President Joe Biden on his road to reelection: inflation.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Washington Hilton, in Washington, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 28, 2024
Biden jabs Trump in election-year roast at correspondents' dinner
The U.S. president used the annual black-tie event to chide his Republican rival Donald Trump for immaturity and poke fun at his own advanced age.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 28, 2024
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
By Paul Sonne
The move reflects both the burgeoning costs of his war in Ukraine and the firm control he has over the Russian elite.
A man, identified as Keith Siegel, 64, speaks in a video released Saturday by Hamas that appeared to show two Israeli hostages who have been held in the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, in this screenshot.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 28, 2024
Hamas releases video of two hostages as it weighs cease-fire
The Palestinian militant group’s military wing posted a video showing American Israeli citizen Keith Siegel, 64, and Israeli Omri Miran, 47.
Palestinian children stand amid the debris of a house destroyed by overnight Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 28, 2024
Some U.S. officials say Israel may be violating international law in Gaza
By Humeyra Pamuk
A joint submission from four U.S. bureaus raised "serious concern over non-compliance" with international humanitarian law.
Some programmers are gearing up for what they expect to be an era of tighter controls after Russian President Vladimir Putin secured a mandate until at least 2030 with a landslide win at elections last month.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 27, 2024
Russian programmers play 'cat and mouse' game to outsmart censors
By Lucy Papachristou
Some of them employing techniques learnt from Chinese hackers' efforts to evade the even more stringent 'Great Firewall' there.

'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
India seen overtaking Japan in nominal GDP in 2025
The skyline of central Mumbai's financial district
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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