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The badge of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Fugitive Operations team is seen in Santa Ana, California, on May 11, 2017.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
ICE may deport migrants to countries other than their own with hours notice
ICE agents could remove them to a so-called third country with as little as six hours' notice "in exigent circumstances," a new memo says.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Catholic Church draws ire for promoting priest jailed for rape
Victim support groups and traditionalists have expressed outrage over the case of Dominique Spina, who was found guilty of raping a 16-year-old boy in 2006.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Judge blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order after Supreme Court ruling
The judge made use of an exception to overcome the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling that restricted the ability of judges to block policies nationwide.
CCTV footage shows a Security Service of Ukraine officer walking down stairs moments before he was shot in Kyiv on Thursday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 11, 2025
Ukrainian spy colonel gunned down in Kyiv as assailant flees
By Tom Balmforth
The slain agent was a colonel in the Security Service of Ukraine, an official said.
Former Russian Transport Minister Roman Starovoit at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 7. Starovoit, who was fired after barely a year in the job on Monday, was found dead with a gunshot wound hours later in his car outside Moscow.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 8, 2025
Sacked Russian transport minister found dead in his car with gunshot wound
By Gleb Stolyarov and Andrew Osborn
Roman Starovoit, 53, was fired after barely a year in the job, purportedly in connection with a corruption probe in the region he once ran.
International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane speaks in Tokyo in July 2023.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 28, 2025
ICC President Tomoko Akane criticizes U.S. sanctions
"The sanctions have had impacts on third countries, and they violate international law," Akane told Japanese media outlets online Friday.
Candles and flowers adorn a memorial outside the Minnesota State Capitol following the killing of Democratic state assemblywoman Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, in St. Paul on Wednesday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2025
Two days of terror: How the Minnesota shooter evaded police and got caught
By Nathan Layne
The suspect had an imperfect disguise, but it was enough to evade police for two days in the state's largest-ever manhunt.
Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil speaks to reporters after being released from immigration custody in Jena, Louisiana, on Friday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2025
Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil walks free after U.S. judge orders release
President Donald Trump has called protests against Israel's Gaza war antisemitic and vowed to deport foreign students who took part. Khalil became the first target of this policy.
Harvard University’s crest is displayed on banners from the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library on campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, last month.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 21, 2025
U.S. judge blocks Trump ban on foreign students at Harvard
A federal judge has indefinitely paused Donald Trump's bid to block Harvard from enrolling foreign students as the U.S. president said a "deal" with the school was in the works.
Members of the California National Guard are deployed outside a complex of federal buildings in Santa Ana, California, on June 18.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jun 20, 2025
Trump allowed to keep using national guard in LA for now
By Madlin Mekelburg
Thursday’s decision isn’t the final ruling on the matter and is likely to be immediately challenged.

Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
CDP leader criticizes ‘Japanese First’ policy and calls for inclusive society
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda said it is obvious that Japanese society could not function without the help of foreign workers in manufacturing, health care, construction and public transportation.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
By Megha Wadhwa

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