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A wheat harvest in Ukraine
ENVIRONMENT
Sep 20, 2025

NASA scientist starts food crisis hotline with tech giant funding

The aim is to use images from space that are then sifted and interpreted by AI models to predict potential crises early.
Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi arrives for a news conference in Tokyo on Saturday to talk about entering the ruling Liberal Democratic Party leadership race.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 21, 2025

LDP presidential race to officially start on Monday

It will be the first LDP presidential election since the party and its coalition partner, Komeito, lost their combined majority in both chambers of the country's parliament.
Media mogul Lachlan Murdoch (L) and his wife Sarah at the White House in 2019. U.S. President Donald Trump says that Murdoch and business leaders Larry Ellison and Michael Dell will be involved in an upcoming deal to keep TikTok operating in the U.S.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 22, 2025

Lachlan Murdoch, Michael Dell, Ellison involved in TikTok deal, Trump says

The proposed investors would give Trump influence over an app that helps shape public discourse on politics and culture with its 170 million U.S. users.
Women in the U.K. still tend to handle the weekly shop, meaning they’re the first to feel the pinch from higher grocery, water and transport bills — the main drivers pushing inflation to its highest since early 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

Women turn away from Labour as they lose faith in economy

Already, Britain's government has lost nearly half of the female voters who helped it win power just a year ago, according a political strategy and communications consultancy.
“Between Currents and Bloom,” an eye-popping crocheted seascape by Indonesian artist Mulyana, dazzles with Instagram-ready cuteness while recalling a vibrant ocean now threatened by warming seas.
CULTURE / Art
Sep 22, 2025

Aichi Triennale’s message to the art world: Free Palestine

At Aichi Triennale 2025, Hoor Al Qasimi, the festival’s first foreign artistic director, takes a stand in support of Palestine.
The TikTok app page in the Apple App store is displayed on a smartphone on Jan. 15. A potential tie-in with the popular TikTok service will help Fox reach young audiences in new ways, exposing them to everything from broadcast TV shows to streaming businesses like the ad-supported Tubi and Fox One, a paid online platform.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 23, 2025

After MySpace losses, Murdochs mull social media return with TikTok tie-up

A Fox investment in TikTok would give the media empire a platform with 170 million U.S. users to promote a broad range of TV programming — from the NFL to The Simpson.
U.S. President Donald Trump, in front of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delivers remarks linking autism to childhood vaccines and to the use of popular pain medication Tylenol for pregnant women and children — claims that are not backed by decades of science — at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2025

'I'm not a doctor': Trump's autism announcement gives COVID-19 flashbacks

The U.S. president's announcements linking a painkiller to autism ranged from unproven medical claims to self-proclaimed expertise.
Demonstrators protest at the port of Mutsu-Ogawara in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, in March 1997, as a British freighter arrives with processed nuclear waste, whose fissile elements can be fabricated into new nuclear mixed-oxide fuel.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 23, 2025

Could pacifist Japan ever arm itself with nuclear weapons?

It has always been a question of having the will to act and the belief that the U.S. nuclear deterrence commitment to Japan was beyond question.
People attend a U.S. naturalization ceremony for new citizens in Savannah, Georgia, on July 29, 2024. The new worker visa fees could mean fewer talented immigrants coming to the U.S., who often go on to launch new firms, analysts say.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 24, 2025

Trump's new visa fees spur offshoring talks and hiring turmoil

While the $100,000 fee applies only to new applicants, the confusion around its roll-out and steep cost are leading companies to pause recruitment, budgeting and workforce plans.
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi addresses a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday, alongside candidates vying to become the Liberal Democratic Party's next president. The ruling party’s leadership race officially kicked off on Monday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 24, 2025

An identity crisis is haunting Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party

Dismal performances have the LDP clinging to power as a minority in both houses of parliament, and in search of its fifth leader in as many years
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya meets with his counterparts from India, Australia and the United States during talks of “the Quad” grouping in Washington in July. The meeting reflected Japan’s strategy of building flexible minilateral partnerships to navigate growing tensions with China and shifting U.S. priorities.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2025

Japan’s foreign policy faces uncharted waters

Japan's challenge lies in maintaining strategic alignment while accommodating American transactionalism.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (left), former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi (right) and agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi arrive to attend the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election candidates joint press conference at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 25, 2025

Newcomer or veteran? LDP faces two choices for new party chief

Whoever wins the Oct. 4 leadership race must be able to work with senior members while also showing the public that the LDP is serious about reform.
A Paris court sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison on Thursday after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy over attempts to raise campaign funds from Libya.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 26, 2025

Former French President Sarkozy handed 5-year jail term in stunning downfall

Sarkozy was found guilty of criminal conspiracy over efforts to procure funds for his 2007 presidential bid from Libya during the rule of late dictator Muammar Gadhafi.
Liberal Democratic Party presidential candidates attend a debate at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 26, 2025

'Speed dating' — with an LDP twist

It feels like one of the speed dating events that used to be on Japanese television years ago, where the candidates court prospective partners one after the other.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on Tuesday. His claim that he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for ending multiple wars is contradicted by the fact that many of these conflicts persist.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2025

Donald Trump’s self-aggrandizing peacemaker hype

Trump’s claim to have ended seven “unendable” wars is best understood as a case study in self-delusion.
U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly announced a $100,000 fee for the H-1B visa earlier this month, a move that potentially deals a big blow to the technology sector that sources many skilled workers from India.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 29, 2025

'Clog the toilet' trolls hit Indian visa holders rushing back to U.S.

Users on the far-right message board 4chan moved to overwhelm flight reservation systems, in a bid to block Indian visa holders from booking tickets.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks on the opening day of the U.K. Labour Party annual conference on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 30, 2025

Starmer seeks political redemption by taking on Farage threat

Labour’s gathering is a chance for the British prime minister to test-drive a new strategy of going on the attack against an insurgent Reform U.K. party led by Farage.
Shinjiro Koizumi (center), Sanae Takaichi (right), and Yoshimasa Hayashi speak at a news conference for candidates taking part in the Liberal Democratic Party leadership race in Tokyo on Sept. 23.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 30, 2025

Is this the LDP’s last presidential election?

The five LDP presidential candidates — three conservatives and two liberals — are competing to offer the most uninspiring platform.
Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair in London on Sept. 3, 2024. Blair's reputation is forever sullied by his decision to back former U.S. President George W. Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 1, 2025

Tony Blair's return to Middle East diplomacy reopens old wounds and new doubts

His decision to back former U.S. President George W. Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq forever sullied his reputation.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech at the Labour party's annual conference in Liverpool, England, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 1, 2025

U.K.’s Starmer buys himself time by punching back at Farage

Keir Starmer's barnstorming speech at his party's annual conference in Liverpool left his internal rivals humbled and the party unified behind him — for now.
Ryosuke Takashima, mayor of Ashiya in Hyogo Prefecture
JAPAN
Oct 1, 2025

Youngest-ever Japan mayor among Time's 100 most influential emerging people

"In Japan, a country shaped by its gerontocratic politics, Ryosuke Takashima is breaking the mold," the magazine said.
Since Donald Trump took office in January, his White House has targeted what it deems liberal-leaning institutions in education, law, media, politics and municipal government.
WORLD
Oct 3, 2025

In a switch, Trump aims to reward colleges for abiding by its ideological terms

Terms include capping international undergrad enrollment at 15%, banning the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions and defining genders based on biology.
Sanseito leader Sohei Kamiya (center) with other parliament members from the party
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 3, 2025

What’s driving the far-right voters who shook Japanese politics

Sanseito’s slogan is "Japanese First,” and it campaigned on a mix of tax cutting, vaccine skepticism and restrictions on immigration and foreign investment.
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, holds a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 4, 2025

Takaichi poised to become Japan's first female PM after winning LDP poll

Takaichi earned 185 votes against Koizumi’s 156 in a runoff after none of the five candidates in the party leadership race secured a majority in the first round of voting.
Venezuelan migrants who had been detained in El Salvador walk up stairs to the terminal after disembarking from a plane at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, in July.
WORLD
Oct 4, 2025

U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump strip temporary status from Venezuelan migrants

The court's ruling came at a time of simmering tensions between the United States and Venezuela.
Moroccan youth from a collective calling itself GenZ 212 chant slogans as they rally for a seventh straight day to demand reforms to public health care and education.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 5, 2025

Gen Z anger at ruling elites is erupting across the world

There has been a surge in Gen Z demonstrations in Africa and Asia against aging leaders and corruption.
Newly elected Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi is applauded after winning the party's leadership election in Tokyo on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 5, 2025

Will Sanae Takaichi be Japan’s Thatcher — or its Truss?

Takaichi is comfortably the most conservative choice the party could have made, if not the most right-leaning leader in recent history.
Sanae Takaichi, newly elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a news conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 6, 2025

Four questions that determine Takaichi’s success

From breaking with Komeito to revisiting the U.S. trade deal, new Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi has the potential to shake up Japanese politics.
Empress Masako (left), Emperor Naruhito (center) and their daughter Princess Aiko watch the World Athletics Championships held at the National Stadium in Tokyo in September.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025

Parliament talks deadlocked on Japan's imperial succession

With no agreement reached during this year's ordinary session of the Diet, Japan's parliament, prospects for a consensus of the legislature remain dim.
French President Emmanuel Macron attends and event in Saarbruecken, Germany, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 7, 2025

Macron wanders alone by the Seine as grip on his future slips away

The resignation of his fifth prime minister in two years has raised the chances that he will not make it to the end of his term.
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.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
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.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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