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A cargo ship full of shipping containers is seen at the port of Oakland, California, in August. U.S. President Donald Trump predicted that foreign countries would pay the price of his protectionist policies, wagering that exporters would absorb the cost to keep a foothold in the U.S. market.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 13, 2025

U.S. firms and consumers paying most for Trump's tariffs, data suggests

Trump predicted that foreign countries would pay the price of his protectionist policies, wagering that exporters would absorb the cost to keep a foothold in the U.S. market.
Shenzhen International Airport. Chinese job seekers, worried about competition in tech fields, are upset about the new K visa, which allows foreign talent to work in China.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 15, 2025

China’s visa uproar is part of a DeepSeek illusion

Some of the resulting backlash on Chinese social media against the new K visa has been downright xenophobic and even racist.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (right) at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia on July 8
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 15, 2025

Trump’s trade hostilities unite Lula and Modi in search for new markets

Government officials and business executives from Brazil and India converge this week in New Delhi to forge new ties and triple the countries’ $12 billion trade partnership.
Protesters rally outside the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta on the second anniversary of the Gaza war on Oct. 7.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 15, 2025

The U.S. is losing hearts and minds in Southeast Asia over Gaza

For the first time, more respondents among the 10 ASEAN nations said they would align with China (50.5%) over the U.S. (49.5%) if forced to choose.
Greenpeace activists hold signs reading "COP30 act for forests,” during the ministerial preparatory meeting, ahead of the COP30 climate summit, in Brasilia, Brazil on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 16, 2025

Trump’s team weighs COP attendance, but influence looms either way

Experts say whatever decision the U.S. makes, its action or inaction will have a major impact.
Motorists ride past the Prince International Plaza in Phnom Penh on Wednesday. U.S. authorities on Tuesday unsealed an indictment against Chen Zhi, a British-Cambodian businessperson who owns Prince Group and who is accused of running forced labor camps in Cambodia.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 16, 2025

U.S. and U.K. sanctions target Cambodia's Prince Group and tycoon Chen Zhi

Prince Holding Group, one of Cambodia's largest conglomerates, was a front for "one of Asia's largest transnational criminal organizations," the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump arrive at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 17, 2025

Trump to meet Putin in Budapest to discuss war in Ukraine

Trump expressed optimism that the meeting, set to be in Budapest, could result in a ceasefire breakthrough even though an August meeting in Alaska failed to yield one.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press after disembarking from Air Force One upon arrival at Palm Beach International Airport on Friday.
WORLD
Oct 18, 2025

Trump tells Russia and Ukraine to stop the war ‘at the battle line’

The U.S. leader urged both sides to "make a deal," and refused to give Ukraine the long-range missiles it wanted.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 20, 2025

Trump urged Zelenskyy to make concessions to Russia in tense meeting

Trump also mused about giving security guarantees to both Kyiv and Moscow, comments that the Ukrainian delegation found confusing, sources said.
The seaport of Buenaventura in Colombia on June 28. Shipments to the U.S. account for 35% of Colombia's exports, according to the Colombian-American Chamber of Commerce, while 70% of imports from the U.S. are items not produced in the country.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2025

Trump's Colombia tariffs would flip U.S. policy on drugs and trade

Trump's tariff threat was a rejection of an idea about countering the narcotics business that free trade can make legitimate exports more appealing than drug trafficking.
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House in Washington on Sept. 25.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2025

Erdogan turns Trump's Gaza deal into a power play for Turkey

Initially resistant to Trump's ultimatum, Hamas leaders relented only when Turkey, a country they view as a political patron, urged them to agree to the plan.
Transportation Security Administration agents at a security checkpoint at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in Dallas, Texas, on Monday
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

U.S. air safety workers tighten belts as shutdown drags on

The 60,000 men and women responsible for keeping American skies safe have gone unpaid throughout the government shutdown.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 23, 2025

Taiwan is courting MAGA influencers to get Trump’s attention

Officials have grown worried that Trump could undermine the self-ruled democracy’s interests during talks with China.
The demolition of the East Wing of the White House on Thursday
WORLD
Oct 24, 2025

Trump completes demolition of White House East Wing

The wrecking work will make way for the U.S. president’s $300 million ballroom.
Workers at a coca plantation in Colombia. Experts say the U.S. strikes on narcotics traffickers are having no real impact on Latin America's drug trade.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / EXPLAINER
Oct 24, 2025

Are U.S. strikes hurting Latin America's drug trade?

In short, no.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives for an extraordinary session of parliament in Tokyo on Friday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 25, 2025

Takaichi to make diplomatic debut at ASEAN summit in Malaysia

Japan's new leader will also hold a high-profile summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Tokyo and then travel to South Korea for APEC meetings.
A person takes a video of the ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House on Friday.
WORLD
Oct 25, 2025

Tourists gawk and recoil at Trump's destruction of the White House East Wing

The U.S. leader says they aren't missing much and no one should mourn its demise. "It was a very small building," Trump told reporters this week.
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet (center) and Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul hold up signed documents during a ceremonial signing of a ceasefire agreement on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 26, 2025

Trump headlines ASEAN summit as Thailand-Cambodia sign ceasefire deal

The U.S. president also oversaw a series of pivotal trade talks on the sidelines of the summit.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a bilateral meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim during the 47th Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 26, 2025

U.S.-Pakistan relations don’t come at expense of India, Rubio says

The U.S.’ pivot toward Pakistan under President Donald Trump has irked New Delhi and coincided with a fraying in ties between Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
An electronic signboard in Tokyo shows the benchmark Nikkei 225 index above 50,000.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 27, 2025

Nikkei 225 breaks 50,000 for first time ever on trade and rate optimism

The rally comes after China and the United States reached a framework trade agreement.
Argentine President Javier Milei (center) celebrates during a Libertad Avanza election night rally in Buenos Aires on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 27, 2025

Milei’s party wins Argentina midterm vote in major comeback

La Libertad Avanza, which currently holds only about 15% of congressional seats, will gain a stronger foothold to pass key economic reforms.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim as he walks from Air Force One upon arrival at Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 28, 2025

Anwar turns Malaysia into stage for dealmaking with Trump’s help

Local media largely portrayed Anwar’s hosting of the ASEAN summit as a showcase of Malaysia’s diplomatic resurgence, calling it a moment of renewed regional leadership.
Katsuhiko Ushikubo, chief investment officer of Norinchukin Bank, ahead of an interview at the Bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Monday
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2025

Norinchukin still ready to invest in credit despite losses

Chief Investment Officer Katsuhiko Ushikubo is in charge of the bank’s efforts to repair its ¥40.7 trillion portfolio after losses on foreign bonds last fiscal year.
Scientists use a raft inside the Super-Kamiokande neutrino detector located about 1 kilometer under Mount Ikeno near the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, in this undated image obtained on Wednesday
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 28, 2025

Researchers in U.S. and Japan offer insight into ghostly neutrinos

The new study is providing insight into the difference in mass between neutrino types, a key unanswered question.
The USS Annapolis nuclear-powered submarine is anchored at a naval base on Jeju Island, South Korea, in July 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Oct 30, 2025

South Korea to build nuclear-powered subs in U.S., Trump says

Washington’s decision to share the closely held nuclear technology with Seoul could have implications for Tokyo’s own defense policies.
The Nikkei 225 stock average broke 52,000 just days after breaking 51,000.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 31, 2025

Nikkei 225 breaks 52,000 as records continue to topple

The surprise rally remains strong despite significant economic uncertainty.
Jera's Hekinan thermal power station in Hekinan, Aichi Prefecture. Jera gets about 2 million metric tons of LNG per year from Russia's Sakhalin-2.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 31, 2025

Japanese utilities say they can replace Sakhalin-2 if supply interrupted

The United States this month urged Japan, along with other Russian energy buyers, to stop imports as it pushes the Kremlin towards ending the war in Ukraine.
Volunteers sort donated food items at the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank's South Los Angeles warehouse on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 1, 2025

Trump administration cannot suspend food aid benefits, U.S. judges rule

Two federal judges ruled that the administration must use contingency funds to pay for the benefits amid the ongoing government shutdown.
Green marks the spot where a fissure formed, then fused back together in this artistic rendering of nanoscale self-healing in metal. Red arrows indicate the direction of the pulling force that unexpectedly triggered the phenomenon.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jul 21, 2023

Self-healing metal? It's not just the stuff of science fiction

Scientists have witnessed pieces of pure platinum and copper spontaneously heal cracks caused by metal fatigue during nanoscale experiments.

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