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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the American Conservative Union's 2008 Conservative Political Action Conference at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, on Feb. 7, 2008.
WORLD / Politics
Dick Cheney, powerful former U.S. vice president who pushed for Iraq War, dies at 84
Cheney died Monday night from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, his family said.
WORLD / Politics
Pining for Pinochet: How crime fanned nostalgia for Chile’s dictator
Polls are showing Chileans clamoring for order and authoritarianism, with many expressing fondness for the dictatorship of late general Augusto Pinochet.
WORLD / Politics
Whiplash: How Trump's threat to strike Nigeria further reshuffles Pentagon priorities
Trump's announcements in the past week on everything from nuclear testing to Nigeria have caught many off guard.
The United States is expected to push for action against seven vessels suspected of violating United Nations sanctions against North Korea.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2025
U.S. wants U.N. sanctions on seven vessels over North Korea exports
By Michelle Nichols
A U.S. official said the seven vessels have illegally exported North Korean coal and iron ore to China, which could earn Pyongyang hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
A worker sorts fresh fruit and vegetables at a food pantry in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on Oct. 29, days before food aid benefits, including SNAP payments, were to be suspended starting Nov. 1 amid the ongoing U.S. government shutdown.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2025
U.S. to pay reduced food aid benefits, but warns of weeks or months delay
By Nate Raymond and Leah Douglas
SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, lapsed for the first time ever on November 1 during the federal shutdown.
The Cape Town International Convention Center in South Africa
WORLD / Politics
Nov 4, 2025
G20 taskforce calls for global panel to tackle ‘inequality emergency’
By Siyanda Mthethwa
The taskforce established by South Africa’s president says that wealth disparities disrupt democracy and cause economic instability.
Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist and New College of Florida trustee, walks through protesters on his way out of a bill signing event in May 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2025
Trump’s college czar has a ‘secret weapon’ to transform campuses
By Liam Knox
President Donald Trump has called the accreditation system a "secret weapon” for forcing changes in academia, and Nicholas Kent is uniquely well-positioned to wield it.
A newspaper vendor pulls a newspaper with an article reporting U.S. President Donald Trump's message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians, at a newspaper stand in Lagos on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2025
Nigeria says U.S. help against Islamist insurgents must respect its sovereignty
By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Camillus Eboh
President Donald Trump has threatened military action in Nigeria over what he said was the ill-treatment of Christians in the West African country.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright holds a news conference on the sidelines of the International Atomic Energy Agency General Conference in Vienna on Sept. 15.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2025
U.S. not planning nuclear explosions at this time, energy secretary says
The U.S. would continue "noncritical" testing that involves all the other parts of a nuclear weapon to make sure they are functioning and can set up a nuclear blast.
Students of the Arctic basic-training program carry out a fire drill in Sisimiut, Greenland.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2025
For Danish army, the threat to Greenland isn’t Trump. It’s Russia.
By Sanne Wass
With NATO’s Arctic footprint expanding, Denmark is raising its military commitment to a territory seen as crucial to security.

More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
A narrow Pacific waterway at heart of U.S. plans to choke China’s vast navy
Philippine and Australian troops fire an M777 howitzer during live fire exercises as part of joint military drills in Laur, Nueva Ecija, the Philippines, in August.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
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.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
Young Indonesians in Japan find their political voice
Indonesian students at Hiroshima University hold posters of the 17+8 Demands, demanding transparency and action from their homeland’s government.
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
Kenshi Yonezu, 'Chainsaw Man' and the art of pop ubiquity
Kenshi Yonezu's “Iris Out” was an instant hit when it dropped in September. Its association with smash anime "Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc" has spread it to even more people.
How airlines are refining their in-flight food in Japan's tourism boom
All Nippon Airways' gourmet program, The Connoisseurs, showcases the Japanese concept of "shun" (peak season for ingredients), giving passengers a preview of the refined cuisine that awaits them in Japan.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
By Alex K.T. Martin

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