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Kansai Electric Power's Takahama nuclear power station in Takahama, Fukui Prefecture
JAPAN
Nov 17, 2025
MOX fuel arrives at Takahama nuclear plant for first time in three years
MOX fuel is produced by mixing uranium with plutonium extracted from reprocessed spent nuclear fuel to enable its reuse.
Hinako Mori, 22, arranges products at a Don Quijote outlet in Tokyo in October. The Japanese retailer, which relaxed its rules concerning hair and nail polish three years ago, says nearly a quarter of its employees sport brightly colored hair.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 17, 2025
More Japanese firms relax rules in tussle for workers
The country's labor shortage has led companies to ease up on various aspects, such as hair and nail polish color, to secure enough part-timers.
Metropolitan Police Department investigators examine a poster put up at a building where a woman was stabbed, in the capital’s Minato Ward on Sunday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 17, 2025
Suspect on run after woman stabbed by stranger in Tokyo’s Akasaka area
The victim, a woman in her 40s, was stabbed in her side and her left hand while in the basement of a building in the busy Akasaka area, according to police.
Venezuelam President Nicolas Maduro waves his country's flag during a demonstration in Caracas on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Trump says U.S. may open talks with Venezuela's Maduro
The U.S. has accused Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of ties to the illegal drug trade, which the leader has denied.
A customer holds a paper cup with the logo of coffee house chain LAP, which stands for Life Among People, in front of one of the chain's cafes in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district on Oct. 28.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 17, 2025
Budget coffee start-up leaves bitter taste in Berlin
Critics accused LAP of squeezing out local cafes with its €2.50 cappuccinos and aggressive expansion in the German capital.
A Laopu Gold store on Canton Road in the Tsim Sha Tsui area of Hong Kong. Laopu Gold's e-commerce sales have surged more than 1,000% during the first three quarters of this year compared with two years ago.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 17, 2025
Why Chinese shoppers are choosing local luxury over LVMH and Gucci
Economics aside, homegrown labels in China are also touting the message that modern luxury can be proudly Chinese.
Thailand said tariff talks with the U.S. will move forward on a separate track from its commitments to U.S. President Donald Trump on Thailand's border dispute with Cambodia.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Thailand says U.S. trade talks separated from Cambodia border deal
Washington had earlier moved to halt trade negotiations pending Thai compliance over the peace declaration with Cambodia signed last month.
U.S. tariffs are starting to take their toll in Japan, especially on companies manufacturing products for export.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 17, 2025
Japan's GDP drops as tariffs bite and domestic demand flags
The decline in the three quarters ending in September was less than forecast.
In 2018, French state-controlled energy giant Electricite de France signed a €600 million deal, unaffected by international sanctions over the Ukraine war, with a subsidiary of a Russian state company for the recycling of reprocessed uranium.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
French uranium being sent to Russia, Greenpeace says
The move is legal but "immoral," the head of Greenpeace France's nuclear campaign said, as nations seek to step up sanctions on the Russian government over its invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint press conference with Greece’s prime minister following their meeting in Athens, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Zelenskyy in France to seal air-defense and warplane deals
The Ukrainian president is in Paris for talks with Emmanuel Macron as heavy Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine have increased in recent weeks.
Then-Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reviews an honor guard at the Government House during her visit to Thailand, in Bangkok on April 26, 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Ahead of Hasina verdict, son warns of Bangladesh violence if party ban stays
Sajeeb Wazed's comments came a day before a Dhaka court was due to deliver a verdict that is expected to convict his mother in absentia on charges of crimes against humanity.
The United States conducted another attack on an alleged drug trafficking boat in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, killing three people aboard, the Pentagon said Sunday.
WORLD
Nov 17, 2025
Pentagon says it struck another suspected drug boat in Pacific, killing three
It was the 21st known attack on drug boats by the U.S. military since early September in what it has said is an effort to disrupt the flow of narcotics into the United States.
Iwao Hakamata's legal team heads to the Shizuoka District Court in the city of Shizuoka on Oct. 9 after Hakamata, a former death row inmate who was acquitted in a retrial for the 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture, filed a damages lawsuit against the central and prefectural governments.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 17, 2025
Ban on prosecutors' appeals in retrials wins expert support
For Iwao Hakamata, a man who was acquitted of murdering four people in a retrial, it took about nine years for the decision to start a retrial to become final because of appeals.
Indian soldiers stand guard near the blast site, after an explosion in the Red Fort area in the old quarters of New Delhi on Nov. 11.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Nov 17, 2025
India says accomplice of New Delhi car blast 'suicide bomber' arrested
Both suspects are from Kashmir, according to India's National Investigation Agency, the country's counterterrorism law enforcement body.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the plenum of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem on Nov. 10.
WORLD
Nov 17, 2025
Netanyahu faces far-right backlash after U.S.-backed statement on Palestinian state
The Israeli leader spoke after the U.S. and many Muslim-majority nations endorsed a draft U.N. resolution backing a plan that offered a route to Palestinian statehood.
A man holds up Chile's national flag on the day of the presidential election in Santiago on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Chile vote propels far-right Kast to runoff against leftist Jara
Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast is favored to clinch a runoff victory next month despite lagging slightly behind governing coalition candidate Jeannette Jara in Chile's first-round presidential vote on Sunday.
Chen Tianshi
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 17, 2025
U.S. sanctions propel Chinese AI prodigy to $23 billion fortune
As Washington’s export bans choked China’s access to advanced chips, firms like Chen Tianshi’s Cambricon have emerged as national champions.
Nagashima Akihisa (right), secretary-general of the Japan-Korea Parliamentary Friendship League, speaks at a bilateral meeting of nonpartisan lawmakers in Seoul on Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 16, 2025
Japan and South Korea lawmakers agree to boost cooperation
In a statement adopted at their joint plenary meeting in Seoul, the two groups also denounced North Korea's nuclear and missile development.
Japan's National Diet Building in Tokyo on Oct. 21. The Takaichi administration is set to finalize an economic stimulus package exceeding ¥17 trillion for Cabinet approval on Friday, according to a report.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 16, 2025
Japan's finance minister says stimulus package to exceed ¥17 trillion, Nikkei reports
Since taking office in October, Takaichi has pledged to compile a sizeable package of spending measures to cushion the economic blow from rising living costs.
Bound aluminum plates at the Aluminum Dunkerque aluminum smelter near Dunkirk, France, on March 17
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 16, 2025
Europe gauges fallout from Trump’s year of trade chaos
Forecasts released in May were already downbeat in the wake of President Trump’s market-jolting "Liberation Day” announcement of levies the previous month.
A U.N. Human Rights Council has added 12 missing Japanese individuals, not officially recognized as North Korean abduction victims, to a list urging Pyongyang to confirm their safety, sources say.
JAPAN
Nov 16, 2025
U.N. adds 12 more Japanese people to North Korea abduction list
The Human Rights Council working group on enforced disappearances compiled a list of about 40 people.
People pray for rain following a drought crisis at Imamzadeh Saleh shrine in Tehran on Friday.
WORLD
Nov 16, 2025
Iran begins cloud seeding operations as severe drought bites
Rainfall in the capital Tehran has been at its lowest level in a century, according to officials, and half of Iran's provinces have not seen a drop of rain in months.
Labubu dolls by toy company Pop Market are displayed during a press preview at an AliExpress pop-up shop in London on Nov. 11.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 16, 2025
Pop Mart’s Labubu risks Beanie Baby-style collapse, analyst says
The Labubu craze is about to peak, and doubts about the next sales driver for owner Pop Mart International Group suggest its shares have limited upside, an analyst says.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Ashfall warning in Japan as volcano erupts
View of Sakurajima from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture
Suspect on run after woman stabbed by stranger in Tokyo’s Akasaka area
Metropolitan Police Department investigators examine a poster put up at a building where a woman was stabbed, in the capital’s Minato Ward on Sunday.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.

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