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Members from Texas Game Wardens of the Law Enforcement Divison works following flash flooding, in Kerrville, Texas, on Sunday.
WORLD
Jul 7, 2025

Searchers scour Texas flood zone for dozens missing as 78 confirmed dead

Search teams plodded through mud-laden riverbanks and flew aircraft over the flood-stricken landscape of central Texas for a fourth day on Monday, looking for dozens of people still missing from a disaster that has claimed at least 78 lives.
Switzerland's Alayah Pilgrim celebrates after scoring her team's second goal against Iceland in their UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Group A match in Bern, Switzerland, on Sunday.
SOCCER
Jul 7, 2025

Swiss beat Iceland 2-0 to keep alive Women's Euro knockout hopes

Iceland became the first team to be eliminated from the competition.
Mexico players celebrate after defeating the United States in the 2025 Gold Cup Final in Houston on Sunday.
SOCCER
Jul 7, 2025

Mexico beats United States 2-1 to win 10th Gold Cup title

Despite Mexico's first-half dominance, the team struggled to capitalize on numerous golden opportunities.
Yoshiomi Tamai
JAPAN / Society
Jul 7, 2025

Philanthropist Yoshiomi Tamai dies at 90

Tamai was the founder and longtime president of the Ashinaga Foundation, which has supported over 110,000 orphaned students.
Fluminense's Thiago Silva before the FIFA Club World Cup quarterfinal match against Al Hilal in Orlando, Florida, on Friday.
SOCCER
Jul 7, 2025

Youthful Chelsea ready for Thiago Silva reunion at Club World Cup

Silva initially made his name at Fluminense, and returned to the side upon leaving Chelsea.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a bilateral dinner held by U.S. President Donald Trump (not visible), at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 8, 2025

On visit to White House, Netanyahu says he nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

The move underscores how foreign leaders understand the best way to get what they want from the U.S. president is to shower him with praise.
Maki Takubo, mayor of Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, holds a news conference Monday evening to announcer her intention to resign and seek re-election.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 8, 2025

Scandal-hit mayor in Shizuoka to resign and seek reelection

Maki Takubo, who has admitted that she did not graduate from Toyo University but was actually expelled, was elected as mayor in May.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Tuesday. Trump's latest comments suggest he is running out of patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin after having openly expressed admiration for him in the past.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 9, 2025

Trump slams Putin again as he backs more weapons for Ukraine

U.S. President Donald Trump said he’s also looking "very strongly” at a bill introduced in the Senate that would impose severe sanctions on Russia.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (left) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embrace at the G20 Leaders' Summit In Rio De Janeiro in 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 9, 2025

Brazil’s Lula hosts Modi in bid to turn India into a major trade partner

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is desperate to finally crack the code on a relationship that has never fully taken off thanks to a litany of incompatibilities.
Carlos Alcaraz celebrates after winning his Wimbledon quarterfinal match against Cameron Norrie on Tuesday in London.
TENNIS
Jul 9, 2025

Alcaraz and Sabalenka take contrasting routes into Wimbledon semis

The Spanish second seed dropped four sets in a series of scrappy displays during his run to the last eight, but was at his best on Tuesday.
Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako pay tribute at a memorial to commemorate Japanese nationals who died while being detained in Mongolia after the end of World War II, in Dambadarjaa, on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Jul 9, 2025

Emperor and empress mourn Japanese who died in Mongolia

It is the first time that a Japanese emperor has mourned at a site where Japanese people were detained abroad, according to the Imperial Household Agency.
Alan Bates, a former branch manager who led the fight for justice, has said the compensation process has "turned into quasi-kangaroo courts."
WORLD
Jul 9, 2025

U.K. post office scandal may have caused 13 suicides: inquiry

The Post Office wrongfully prosecuted around 1,000 subpostmasters — self-employed branch managers — between 1999 and 2015.
"The aggressiveness of China has been several years in the making," Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said virtually at the Reuters NEXT Asia summit in Singapore on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 9, 2025

Philippine defense chief rules out U.S. as factor in China's 'expansionist' agenda

Despite rising tension in the regional flash point of the South China Sea, the Philippines' top defense official also dismissed fears that conflict was on the horizon.
Tomoya Asanuma, a man who endured almost four months of detention for charges he was ultimately acquitted of in January, poses for a picture at his apartment in Tokyo in May.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 10, 2025

Trial challenging Japan's 'hostage justice' opens

Campaigners argue that lengthy pretrial detention is meted out too easily in Japan, especially if suspects remain silent or refuse to confess.
A Beijing store selling merchandise based on the "boys’ love" genre of graphic novels on June 16
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 10, 2025

China detains female writers of 'boys' love' content in porn crackdown

The detentions since March have triggered debate on social media about the limits of free speech and the apparent sexist nature of the crackdown.
A team of technicians from climate startup Recoolit work to capture emissions from a large air conditioning unit in the basement of a housing complex in Jakarta on June 10.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 10, 2025

In Indonesia, a startup captures coolants to stop global warming

With cooling demand increasing as the planet warms, concern is growing over highly polluting refrigerants. Enter the Recoolit startup.
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (left) shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, during bilateral talks on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations-related meetings in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 10, 2025

Japan voices strong concern over Chinese military and rare earth moves

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, met for talks on the sidelines of Association of Southeast Asian Nations-related gatherings.
A police officer at the site of a Russian airstrike which hit a residential building in Kyiv on Thursday
WORLD
Jul 11, 2025

Trump says U.S. to supply weapons to Ukraine via NATO

The U.S. president also said that he would make a "major statement" on Russia on Monday, though he declined to elaborate.
Racing Bulls team principal Laurent Mekies speaks with Red Bull's Yuki Tsunoda ahead of practice for the Miami Grand Prix on May 2. Mekies was named Red Bull team principal on Wednesday.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 11, 2025

Laurent Mekies gets started new Red Bull team principal

Max Verstappen's future with the team remains uncertain, despite a contract until 2028, with Mercedes and Aston Martin keen to secure his services.
Smoke billows during an Israeli strike on Gaza on Thursday. U.S.-based Project HOPE said the strike had hit right outside its Altayara health clinic.
WORLD
Jul 11, 2025

Israeli strike kills children near Gaza clinic, with no immediate truce in sight

Repeated attacks by Israeli forces in recent weeks have put an enormous strain on Gaza's few remaining hospitals.
Apple’s Craig Federighi shows off 
a set of emoji at 
a conference on June 13, 2016. While the small pictures have proved helpful in conveying nuance in our texts, younger people are using them less often.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jul 11, 2025

An emoji used to say it all. Now it might say too much.

With World Emoji Day approaching, it's a good opportunity to recognize how important these digital pictures have become.
The Osaka District Court ordered the man to have his son appear at a hearing, but the man failed to bring him on all three designated dates.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 11, 2025

Osaka man detained for three weeks under human protection law

It is rare for a person to be detained under the human protection law, which has no clause on a specific period for such detentions, said an expert on Japan's family laws.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s escalating tariffs, erratic trade threats and linkage of economic and defense issues are undermining trust in America and pushing allies like Japan to rethink their dependence on Washington.
EDITORIALS
Jul 11, 2025

Trump declares war on the international economic order

Trump has a simple understanding of international relations. In his mind, might makes right.
People listen to stump speeches earlier this month in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture, ahead of the Upper House election.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 11, 2025

Dual surnames for married couples in focus ahead of Japan poll

The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women has urged the Japanese government to introduce the system four times.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio gestures as he boards his flight before departing from Subang Air Base, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 11, 2025

Rubio says Xi-Trump summit looking likely

The U.S. envoy said he had a "very constructive and positive” sit-down with Wang Yi on Friday, building on recent momentum in bilateral ties.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends the East Asia Summit foreign ministers’ meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 12, 2025

Trump tariffs not broached in two ASEAN-related meetings with U.S. officials

The lack of any mention of trade concerns was glaring amid reports that countries are looking at diversifying partnerships as a way to weather U.S. tariffs.
Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique speaks during a news conference in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Friday, ahead of Sunday's final of the Club World Cup.
SOCCER
Jul 12, 2025

Chelsea out to stop PSG completing clean sweep in Club World Cup final

The Parisians now stand on the verge of an extraordinary achievement, as they look to complete a clean sweep of trophies in a marathon season.
Women represent 26% of the AI workforce, according to a UNESCO report, and men hold 80% of tenured faculty positions at university AI departments globally.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 12, 2025

Tech's diversity crisis is baking bias into AI systems

Built-in viewpoints and bias, unintentionally imbued by its creators, can make the fast-growing digital tool risky to use.
Evgeniya Mayboroda sits in the defendant's dock during the announcement of the verdict in her case at the municipal court of Shakhty, Rostov Oblast, Russia, on Jan. 29, 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 8, 2025

The strange case of Evgeniya Mayboroda, Russia's rebel retiree

The 72-year-old's transformation from fan to critic says much about the state of today's Russia under Vladimir Putin.
Debris at the crash site of Air India flight AI 171 in Ahmedabad, India, on June 12
WORLD
Jul 13, 2025

Air India crash points to cockpit confusion as fuel flow cut out

Investigators hope to answer one central question: Why and by whom were two fuel switches in the cockpit moved to a cut-off position.

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Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear