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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is being held in France in a preliminary investigation into alleged offenses including fraud, drug trafficking, cyberbullying, organized crime and promotion of terrorism.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 28, 2024

Durov's Telegram: 'Weapon of war' under increased scrutiny

Both Russia and Ukraine use Telegram, known for its encryption, with Russian troops even relying on the messaging app in the battlefield.
John McFall, a former Paralympian, has been cleared for future space missions with the European Space Agency.
PARALYMPICS
Aug 28, 2024

World's first 'parastronaut' hails Paralympics' 'powerful platform'

John McFall will be taking a stand for sports and space this week after becoming the first person with a physical disability to be cleared for missions by the ESA.
Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 28, 2024

Trump adds former Democrats RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard to transition team

Trump's move risks reinforcing criticism that he is embracing figures espousing fringe or extreme views in his bid to return to power.
Gabriel, a victim of a robbery after arranging a date using a gay dating app, speaks during an interview in Sao Paulo on June 28.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 28, 2024

Gay Brazilians targeted in deadly stickups, lured by dating apps

Police have also warned of "love cons" involving straight men lured into kidnappings.
A mother applies medication on the skin of her child who is under treatment for mpox, an infectious disease that causes a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and a fever, at a health center in the Congo on Aug. 19.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 29, 2024

Africa's mpox response is less than 10% funded, says Africa CDC

All of Africa is under pressure to curb an outbreak of mpox, a potentially deadly infection.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks as she holds up a copy of electoral records during a protest against the election results announced by President Nicolas Maduro's government after he was declared winner of the July election, in Caracas on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 29, 2024

Rallies and arrests mark one month since disputed Venezuela election

Protests since the vote have led to at least 27 deaths.
A U.S. cybersecurity firm has reported that a hacking group in Iran operated fake HR companies to target individuals in the Middle East who were willing to sell secrets to Israel and other Western governments.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 29, 2024

Iran used fake HR firms to root out unfriendly spies, researchers say

Hackers lured security officials across Iran, Syria and Lebanon who were willing to sell state secrets to Israel and the West into a cyber espionage trap.
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris (center) and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, disembark from their campaign bus in Savannah, Georgia, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 29, 2024

VCs want Harris to prioritize abortion rights and pro-tech policies

Of about 800 venture capitalists who signed an open letter of support, 225 detailed their reasons for endorsing Harris and the policies they favor in a survey.
A Palestinian woman reacts as she walks along a street damaged during a raid in the Nur Shams camp near the city of Tulkarem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Wednesday.
WORLD
Aug 29, 2024

Israeli conducts deadly raids in West Bank as Gaza war rages

Israel launched coordinated raids across four northern West Bank cities where the military has focused much of its recent operations.
A woman about to board an evacuation train embraces her partner in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 29, 2024

Why hasn’t Russia kicked out Ukrainian invaders? Its own invaders are busy.

Moscow is more intent on capturing Pokrovsk, a city that serves as a key logistics hub in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, Western officials and military experts say.
People sunbathe on a rock in Beirut's Ain al-Mreisseh seaside promenade on Aug. 2.
WORLD
Aug 30, 2024

The threat of war with Israel redefines ‘normal’ life in Beirut

Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire along the border, exchanges that could spiral into a bigger, broader conflict involving global and regional powers.
A Palestinian boy who contracted polio a month ago sleeps surrounded by family members in their displacement tent in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
WORLD
Aug 30, 2024

Israel and Hamas pause Gaza fighting for polio vaccinations, WHO says

The vaccination campaign is due to start on Sunday, with the pauses scheduled to take place between 6 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Sahra Wagenknecht (center), the leader of left-wing party BSW, stands on stage with members after being sprayed with red paint during a campaign event for the upcoming state elections, in Erfurt, eastern Germany, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 30, 2024

Far-left rebel seeking peace with Putin rocks German politics

Sahra Wagenknecht, 55, also calls for an end to the government's support for Ukraine and a radical crackdown on immigration.
A lack of affordable child care is cited as one of the top concerns among working parents in South Korea.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 30, 2024

World’s lowest birth rate spurs South Korea to hire foreign nannies

South Korea plans to bring in about 1,200 foreign nannies by the first half of 2025.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during the 33rd Independence Day ceremony at Saint Sophia Square, in Kyiv on Aug. 24
WORLD / FOCUS
Aug 31, 2024

In war-fatigued east Ukraine, Zelenskyy loses his shine

While the Ukrainian leader initially had close to a 90% approval rate after Russia invaded, his rating now stands at a mere 55%.
Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg, parents of Hersh Goldberg Polin, speak at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Aug. 21.
WORLD
Sep 1, 2024

Israel recovers bodies of six hostages in Gaza, including an American captive

U.S. President Joe Biden, who has closely followed the fate of the hostages seized on Oct. 7, said the six included Israeli American Goldberg-Polin.
Burned land along a road following wildfires in Riberaio Preto, in Brazil's Sao Paulo state, on Aug. 27
WORLD
Sep 2, 2024

Amazon jungle fires spew toxic smoke to Brazil’s largest city

A curtain of smoke is spreading across Brazil, making its way to Sao Paulo and possibly heading toward neighboring countries Argentina and Paraguay.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a wreath-laying ceremony for the victims of a knife attack that killed three people last week, in Solingen, Germany, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 2, 2024

Germany's Scholz alliance humbled as populists surge in regional votes

The regional election results highlight the risk Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his deeply unpopular government face ahead of the next national election.
A Ukrainian firefighter works to extinguish a burning car after what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian missile strike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Sunday.
WORLD
Sep 2, 2024

Russia strikes Kharkiv following Ukraine's mass drone attack

Russia said Kyiv had launched one of the biggest drone attacks against it since the full-scale war began.
Cows graze in a field near the Green Bank Telescope, a 100-meter fully steerable radio telescope, at the Green Bank Observatory in the U.S. National Radio Quiet Zone in Green Bank, West Virginia, on May 20.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 2, 2024

Inside the 'golden age' of alien hunting at the Green Bank Telescope

If intelligent life exists out there, there's a good chance the teams at the world's largest fully steerable radio astronomy facility will be the first to know.
A satellite image shows what is believed to be a deployment site for a Russian nuclear-powered cruise missile, including five nuclear warhead storage bunkers (right) and bermed launch positions (lower left), in Vologda, Russia.
WORLD
Sep 3, 2024

U.S. researchers find probable launch site of Russia's new nuclear-powered missile

Russia's Vladimir Putin has said the weapon — dubbed the SSC-X-9 Skyfall by NATO — has an almost unlimited range and can evade U.S. missile defenses.
Daikin's air conditioners for sale at a home appliances store in Mumbai
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 3, 2024

Daikin, world’s No. 1 air-conditioner maker, to expand capacity in India

The Japanese company has signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire an additional 13.4 hectares to build a new plant near its current factory in southern India.
Despite current limitations, the progression toward practical humanoid robots is anticipated, driven by advancements in technology and artificial intelligence.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 1, 2024

The future of robots is coming on two legs

Unlike traditional robots, which have already transformed industries with their transport capabilities, bipedal robots are still in the early stages of deployment.
The Panama-flagged oil tanker Blue Lagoon I transits the Bosphorus in Istanbul on June 14.
WORLD
Sep 3, 2024

U.S. military says Houthis attacked two crude oil tankers in Red Sea

The Houthis first launched aerial drone and missile strikes on the waterway in November, in solidarity with Palestinians under assault in Israel's war on Gaza.
A mongoose captured in Amami-Oshima, Kagoshima Prefecture
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2024

Japan declares eradication of mongoose on World Heritage island

This is one of the world's largest-scale cases in which long-settled nonnative mongooses have been eradicated, according to the Environment Ministry.
A stock board at the Tokyo Stock Exchange
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 3, 2024

Japan FSA to examine bank risks in ‘world with interest rates’

In its annual policy guidance released on Friday, the Financial Services Agency pointed to uncertainty over the global economy and markets.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh attend an official welcoming ceremony in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 4, 2024

Putin gets lavish welcome in Mongolia despite ICC warrant

An ICC arrest warrant against Putin obliges the court's 124 member states to arrest Putin and transfer him to the Hague if he sets foot on their territory.
Rescue workers clear debris from a destroyed floor of a military academy struck by Russian missiles in Poltava, Ukraine, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 4, 2024

Russian missiles kill 50 in strike on Ukrainian military institute

Russia has been intensifying its missile and drone attacks on Ukraine 2½ years into the full-scale war.
A woman uses her mobile phone while holding a placard reading "STOP 5G" during a protest against 5G technology, in Bucharest, Romania, in 2020.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 4, 2024

No link between mobile phones and brain cancer, WHO-backed study says

The findings even apply to people who make long phone calls or those who have used mobile phones for more than a decade.
Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba attends a news conference in Kyiv in April.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 4, 2024

Ukraine foreign minister resigns amid war's biggest reshuffle

The resignation comes amid a major shake-up at a critical juncture for Ukraine and leaves over a third of the cabinet vacant after sackings earlier this year.
Why I chose Japanese citizenship over permanent residency
Jon Heese (second left) takes part in a 2024 New Year's nihonshu barrel opening ceremony.
For Uniqlo’s founder, conquering America is personal
A Uniqlo store in New York. In recent years, Uniqlo’s affordable, well-made basic clothes have struck a chord, especially with younger American shoppers, fueling a rapid business expansion.
Japan's fractured politics could ensnarl Takaichi's economic plans
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling party, the Liberal Democratic Party, attends a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Oct. 4.
Sho-time as dazzling Ohtani powers Dodgers into World Series with historic performance
Shohei Ohtani hits a solo home run against the Milwaukee Brewers in the fourth inning of Game 4 of the National League Championship Series at Dodger Stadium on Friday.
LDP and Nippon Ishin no Kai to form coalition government, report says
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party and Nippon Ishin no Kai have agreed to form a coalition, paving the way for the country's first female prime minister, Kyodo reports.
What does Jimbocho think of its unexpected ‘cool’ status?
Tokyo's Jimbocho neighborhood is a haven for book lovers, its rows of secondhand bookstores spilling over with printed materials.
What you need to see at this year's Tokyo film festival
Chloe Zhao’s "Hamnet"
New film explores how Japan and the U.S. found common ground through baseball
Masanori Murakami became the first MLB player from Japan when he made his debut with the Giants on Sept 1, 1964.
As they wrestle for power, Japan’s political parties must remember their base
Rengo's head Tomoko Yoshino speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Oct. 8.
Sumo is about to hit London and the West with a force previously unseen
Preparations advance on Monday for the Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

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