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Displaced Palestinians move with their belongings southwards as smoke billows from Israeli strikes in Gaza City on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2025

Israel intensifies Gaza City bombing as Rubio arrives

Aid agencies say an Israeli takeover of Gaza City would be catastrophic for a population already facing widespread malnutrition.
Germany's Amanal Petros (R) falls as he crosses the finish line behind Tanzania's athlete Alphonce Felix Simbu (L) in the men's marathon final during the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Monday.
SPORTS
Sep 15, 2025

Simbu dips past Petros for world marathon gold

The Tanzanian and German runners were both clocked at 2hr 09min 48sec in the most dramatic of endings for the longest event of the world championships in Tokyo.
North Korean hackers used ChatGPT to craft a fake draft of a South Korean military identification card to create a realistic-looking image meant to make a phishing attempt seem more credible, a South Korean cybersecurity firm found.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 15, 2025

North Korean hackers used ChatGPT to help forge deepfake ID

The document was used in a phishing attack on a target in South Korea, according to cybersecurity researchers.
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 15, 2025

Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships

The U.S. long jumper won her first world title in the long jump back in Tokyo, the city that reduced her to tears just four years ago.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with head of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) autonomous non-profit organization at the Kremlin in Moscow on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2025

Russia targets billionaire’s empire over alleged Ukraine links

The case shows how asset seizures in Russia are surging since the invasion of Ukraine, as the Kremlin cracks down on perceived enemies of the state.
Democratic Party for the People leader Yuichiro Tamaki addresses a meeting of DPP lawmakers held at the parliament building last month.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 15, 2025

DPP eyes leadership role as it marks fifth anniversary

The opposition party's basic strategy is to leave open the possibility of joining the ruling coalition but without easily making concessions.
A video screengrab released on Saturday shows a damaged building at the site of a school and dormitory following what the Irrawaddy news website, citing two Rakhine media outlets, said was an airstrike by the Myanmar military, at Thayettapin, Kyauktaw, Myanmar.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 15, 2025

Students killed at Myanmar boarding school as junta escalates air war

A militia battling the military in Rakhine state, said at least 19 people between the ages of 15 and 21 had died.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio hold a joint news conference in Jerusalem on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2025

Rubio backs Israel in goal to eradicate Hamas as diplomacy falters

The top U.S. diplomat's support for Israel's new offensive on Gaza City has cast doubt on whether diplomacy would work to end nearly two years of war.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks  in the Oval Office of the White House on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2025

Trump says U.S. struck another alleged Venezuelan drug vessel, killing three

The U.S. president provided no evidence for his assertion that the boat was carrying drugs.
Artificial intelligence avatar Una will appear at the U.N. pavilion at Osaka Expo later this month as part of initiatives to combat climate change.
JAPAN
Sep 16, 2025

Japan-backed AI avatar to promote climate action at expo

The anime-inspired female character, Una, was developed as part of climate initiatives supported by the Japanese government.
Workers at a site of a new Amazon data center that is under construction in western Sydney, Australia, on Sept. 5
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 16, 2025

In Australia, a data center boom is built on vague water plans

Concerns have emerged that the sector's rapid growth will leave residents competing for the resource.
High school baseball players line up during the opening ceremony of Summer Koshien last month.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 16, 2025

Japanese baseball grapples with shrinking player base

Behind the buzz created by Shohei Ohtani lies a troubling reality: The number of young players in Japan has fallen sharply in recent years.
A soldier stands guard near Singha Durbar, the main administrative building for the Nepal government, after it was set ablaze by protesters, in Kathmandu on Sept. 12.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 16, 2025

'No regrets': wounded Nepali protesters proud of changes

One 22-year-old who ended up with bullet fragments lodged in his arm and stomach during protests said he would do it again "if there is no change."
A China Coast Guard ship navigates near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea in August.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 16, 2025

China says Philippine ship ‘deliberately rammed’ coast guard vessel in South China Sea

The clash near the flash point Scarborough Shoal, which is also claimed by Manila, came just days after Beijing approved plans to turn the area into a national nature reserve.
Pastry shop Chez Shibata opens on the newly renovated basement floor of Seibu Ikebukuro on Tuesday in Tokyo's Toshima Ward.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 16, 2025

Seibu's Ikebukuro store to open new 'depachika' food floor

A highlight of the renovated basement floor is the opening of 10 new cake shops, including Chez Shibata, which is opening its first shop in the Kanto region.
Cordell Tinch of the U.S. (left), Jamaica's Orlando Bennett (center) and Japan's Rachid Muratake in action during the 110-meter hurdles final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Tuesday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 16, 2025

Muratake misses out on medal as Tinch takes 110-meter hurdle gold

After finishing fifth at last year’s Paris Olympics, Muratake was aiming to claim Japan’s first world hurdles medal in 20 years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin tours an exhibition of military equipment while inspecting the joint Russian-Belarusian military drills at a training ground in Russia's Nizhny Novogorod region on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 17, 2025

Moscow and Minsk rehearse launch of nuclear weapons deployed in Belarus

Russia and Belarus are rehearsing the launch of Russian tactical nuclear weapons as part of joint war games, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday.
Gold medalist Faith Kipyegon celebrates after winning the women's 1,500 meters at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Tuesday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 17, 2025

Faith Kipyegon cements place as supreme champion and role model for mothers

Kipyegon, a three-time Olympic champion, took her fourth world title at 1,500 meters on Tuesday in dominating fashion.
Hoshoryu shoves down Hakuoho to move to 3-0 on Day 3 of the Autumn Basho at Kokugikan in Tokyo.
SUMO
Sep 17, 2025

Onosato and Hoshoryu off to hot starts as other contenders fall

Onosato has been dominant while Hoshoryu, who is returning from injury, has had to work harder for his wins.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 17, 2025

Japan won't recognize Palestinian state given U.S. ties: media report

Recent reports said the U.S. had prompted Japan to forgo the recognition through diplomatic channels, while France had urged the opposite.
Yasuhiko Ito speaks of his experience as an internee under the Soviet Union after World War II, in the city of Fukuoka in April, prior to his death in May at the age of 100.
JAPAN / History
Sep 17, 2025

Former Japanese internee in Ukraine pained by Russian invasion

After World War II, Yasuhiko Ito was taken as a disarmed soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army by the former Soviet Union to Ukraine for forced labor.
A woman passes a graffitied wall outside Nepal's torched Parliament in Kathmandu on Sunday. The country's new leader, Sushila Karki, vowed the same day to follow protesters' demands to "end corruption" as she began work as interim prime minister.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2025

Why Nepal’s new power brokers should worry India and China

If India and China continue treating Nepal primarily as a geopolitical pawn, they risk alienating future leaders.
A sign displays a temperature of 45 degrees Celsius in Thionville, northeastern France, on July 2.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Sep 17, 2025

Climate change led to at least 16,500 heat deaths in Europe this summer

Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent and the Mediterranean is a hot spot for climate change.
India's parliament has passed a sweeping bill banning online gambling, after government figures showed companies had stripped $2.3 billion annually from 450 million people.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 17, 2025

India's online gambling fans eye illegal sites in wake of ban

India's parliament last month passed a sweeping law banning online gambling.
Tourists walk through a traditional alleyway near Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in August.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2025

Foreign visitors to Japan hit record 3.42 million in August

The tally was pushed higher by visitors from mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam and the United States.
Race walker Hayato Katsuki earned bronze for Japan on the opening day of the World Athletics Championships on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 17, 2025

Still plenty to fight for, says Japan’s team leader at worlds

Race walker Hayato Katsuki has Japan's only medal so far, but team officials are optimistic that there's more to come.
China's cyberspace regulator told companies this week to stop testing a Nvidia chip that can be repurposed for artificial intelligence applications.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 18, 2025

China tells companies to stop buying Nvidia’s repurposed AI chip

The move marks Beijing’s latest step to wean the country off Nvidia hardware and boost domestic alternatives.
A woman walks past the poster of Lee Sang-il’s kabuki drama "Kokuho" outside a cinema in Tokyo's Roppongi district.
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Sep 18, 2025

From high risk to record-breaker, ‘Kokuho’ defied expectations to become a megahit

Lee Sang-il's three-hour kabuki drama overcame doubts over subject matter to find its audience.
Yoshihiko Matsui’s “There Was Such a Thing Before” follows two high-school friends (Oshiro Maeda, left, and Airu Kubozuka) growing up in the aftermath of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant meltdown.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 18, 2025

‘There Was Such a Thing Before’: Fukushima grief and fury in monochrome

Eighteen years since his last feature, Yoshihiko Matsui is back with a somber Fukushima tale that demands attention, even as its drama feels stilted.
A college professor (Hidetoshi Nishijima) becomes desperate to find his kidnapped son in Tetsuya Mariko’s “Dear Stranger.”
CULTURE / Film
Sep 18, 2025

‘Dear Stranger’ confronts marriage in turmoil, but lacks subtlety

Despite its emotional stakes, Tetsuya Mariko’s kidnapping drama stumbles on stilted dialogue and too many coincidences.

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