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A Taliban military helicopter carries medical and food supplies for the victims of a deadly earthquake, in Mazar Dara, Kunar province, Afghanistan, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 3, 2025

Hope dwindles for survivors days after deadly Afghan quake

The earthquake killed more than 1,400 people and injured over 3,300, making it one of the deadliest in decades to hit the impoverished country.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping shake hands during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin, China, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 4, 2025

As Trump chills U.S.-India ties, Modi warms to China and Russia

Relations souring with India comes even as U.S. adversaries China, Russia and North Korea have tightened their ties, despite Washington's desire to reset relations with them.
A Ukrainian Railways HRCS2 Hyundai Rotem train that was hit by a Russian drone strike, in Kyiv on Aug. 28. Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was ready to hold talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy if the Ukrainian president came to Moscow.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 4, 2025

Putin tells Ukraine: End war via talks or I will end it by force

However, the Russian leader indicated no willingness to soften his long-standing demands, including that Kyiv abandon any idea of joining NATO.
People walk along a hillside, in the aftermath of an earthquake, in the Nurgal district of Kunar province, Afghanistan, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Sep 4, 2025

Days after quake, survivors in Afghanistan still await aid

Fearful of near-constant aftershocks, people have huddled in the open or struggled to unearth those trapped under the heaps of flattened buildings.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, "It won’t stop with just this strike,” after the U.S. targeted a boat in the Caribbean Sea allegedly full of drugs from Venezuela.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 4, 2025

U.S. threatens more strikes on purported drug boats after attack in Caribbean

The move marked a major escalation in U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on narcotics traffickers following deployment of U.S. Navy vessels off the Venezuelan coast.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services, during a Senate Finance Committee hearing in Washington on Thursday
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 5, 2025

U.S. senators pit Kennedy against Trump on vaccine policy

Half a dozen heated exchanges during a combative three-hour Senate hearing focused on his decision to fire Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (left) and French President Emmanuel Macron speak during a news conference following the Coalition of the Willing Summit, at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 5, 2025

26 nations vow to give Ukraine postwar security guarantees, Macron says

A meeting of the "coalition of the willing" was intended to finalize security guarantees for Ukraine and ask U.S. President Donald Trump for backing.
The Pentagon, near Washington. U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order to rename the Department of Defense the "Department of War."
WORLD / Politics
Sep 5, 2025

Trump to rename Department of Defense the 'Department of War,' official says

The name change will be costly and require updating signs and letterheads used around the world.
Cannabidiol products in New York in October 2014. Tetrahydrocannabinol, which gives the “high” often associated with marijuana, is illegal in Japan if it exceeds a certain amount.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Sep 5, 2025

Japan has ‘strictest standard in the world’ when it comes to CBD products

The country’s threshold for tetrahydrocannabinol, a compound derived from cannabis that gives the “high,” is just 10 parts per million, compared with 3,000 ppm in the U.S.
Trump National Doral in Doral, Florida, near Miami. The Group of 20 summit, a major diplomatic event that includes rich and developing nations, will be held at the Doral resort in 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump announced.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 6, 2025

Trump announces he’ll host 2026 G20 summit at his Doral resort

The U.S. will also streamline the summit to trim what had become a ballooning attendance list in recent years, officials said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits an interactive exhibition in Vladivostok, Russia, on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 6, 2025

Putin says foreign troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said thousands of foreign troops could be deployed to his country under postwar security guarantees.
Drone pilot Rubik controls a FPV drone during a training flight at an undisclosed location in eastern Ukraine.
WORLD
Sep 6, 2025

Killing for points on Ukraine's front line

Ukraine has launched a new system in which drone pilots can earn points for each Russian soldier killed or piece of equipment destroyed.
Attendees stand as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a dinner hosted in the newly renovated Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 7, 2025

Trump nests in a White House and city he’s remolding to fit him

A builder and a homebody, Trump has eschewed some of the regular routines of the presidency in favor of nesting at the White House.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies at a Senate hearing in Washington on Thursday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 7, 2025

Trump backs Kennedy on vaccines despite health and political risks

Some public health officials suggest the political alliance Trump has formed with Kennedy — and the leeway the president is giving him — is leading to dire consequences.
Pope Leo XIV greets the faithful from the popemobile after a Mass for the canonization of Carlo Acutis, the first millennial saint, in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, on Sunday.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2025

Huge crowds at the Vatican as teen becomes first millennial saint

Tens of thousands of people gathered at the Vatican Sunday as Pope Leo XIV proclaimed the Catholic Church's first millennial saint, an Italian teenager dubbed "God's Influencer."
Smoke rises over Kyiv after a Russian missile strike on Sunday, reportedly the largest mass strike of the war.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2025

Russia hits Ukraine with biggest air attack of war

Russia launches drones, missiles on Ukraine, Zelenskyy appeals for stronger air defenses.
A boy stands in front of houses damaged by a deadly earthquake that struck Afghanistan's Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, at Masud village in Nurgal district, Kunar province, Afghanistan, on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 8, 2025

Afghan earthquake survivors refuse to return to villages, fearing landslides

Without sufficient shelter, sanitation and food, the earthquakes on Sept. 1 could spread disease and poverty in one of the world’s poorest and most quake-prone nations.
The coast of the Red Sea. Microsoft on Saturday said its Microsoft Azure users may experience increased latency due to multiple undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea.
WORLD
Sep 8, 2025

Red Sea cable cuts disrupt internet across Asia and the Middle East

It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the damage, but an internet monitoring group identified failures affecting cable systems near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Sha'Carri Richardson waits for the start of the women's 100-meter final during a Diamond League meet in Chorzow, Poland, on Aug. 16.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 8, 2025

Controversy continues to follow U.S. sprint star Sha'Carri Richardson

She arrives in Tokyo for the defense of the world crown on the back of another headline-making incident.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3. Both leaders are set to attend the upcoming virtual BRICS Summit.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 8, 2025

Xi and Putin to take part in BRICS trade summit without Modi

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called the gathering to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs among other issues.
Doris Aguirre, an immigrant from Honduras, participates virtually in a Sunday service by the immigrant-focused Lincoln United Methodist Church, held online due to the threat of immigration sweeps, in Chicago on Aug. 31.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2025

Immigrant faithful turn to online sermons and home communion amid Trump crackdown

On Trump's first day in office, his administration scrapped earlier policy of designating places of worship as sensitive locations off limits to immigration enforcement.
U.S. Rep. John Moolenaar, a Republican from Michigan, during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in Washington in 2023
WORLD / Politics
Sep 9, 2025

Suspected China-linked hackers tried to pose as Republican lawmaker, panel says

The hackers sent multiple emails in recent weeks to U.S. government agencies, business organizations, law firms and at least one foreign government, according to the panel.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has called for reviewing the circumstances that led to World War II to prevent its recurrence.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 9, 2025

Ishiba could release World War II message at U.N.

The prime minister has strongly called for reviewing the circumstances that led to World War II to prevent a recurrence of its horrors.
Haruka Kitaguchi in action during the women's javelin final at the Diamond League meet in Zurich, Switzerland on Aug. 28
MORE SPORTS
Sep 9, 2025

Back from injury, home favorite Kitaguchi won't give up title without a fight

The 27-year-old shot to fame in 2023 when her final throw of 66.73 meters in Budapest made her the first Japanese woman to win a world title in a field event.
Medics treat an injured Ukrainian serviceman, whose call sign is "Surovyi," at a joint stabilization point near a front line in Donetsk region, Ukraine.
WORLD
Sep 9, 2025

'Five days to get out': a Ukrainian soldier's remarkable escape

His experience underlines the difficulty both armies face when operating along and near the point of contact, with drones posing a terrifying new battlefield threat.
Azamat Iskaliyev, accused of the murder of his ex-girlfriend, stands in a courtroom cage as he is sentenced to 19.5 years in jail, in Saratov, Russia, on July 9.
WORLD / Society
Sep 9, 2025

Heroes and villains: Russia braces for eventual return of its enormous army

Verstka, an independent Russian media outlet, calculated in October last year that almost 500 civilians had become victims of veterans returning from fighting in Ukraine.
Smoke billows after explosions in Doha on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 10, 2025

Israel attacks Hamas in Qatar, drawing rare rebuke from U.S.

The rare public criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump underscored the risk that the war in Gaza could get worse before it gets better.
American forward Alejandro Zendejas fights for the ball with Japanese forward Daizen Maeda during a friendly in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday.
SOCCER
Sep 10, 2025

Zendejas and Balogun lift U.S. over Samurai Blue in friendly

After a scoreless draw against Mexico on the weekend, Japan goalkeeper Keisuke Osako made nine saves as his team again failed to get on the scoreboard.
Warsaw's skyline in July
WORLD
Sep 10, 2025

Poland downs drones, becoming first NATO member to open fire during Ukraine war

Moscow denied responsibility for the incident, with a senior diplomat in Poland saying the drones had come from the direction of Ukraine.
Hakuyo at Kokugikan in Tokyo the day before his first tournament in professional sumo in May 2014.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Sep 10, 2025

What drives sumo journeymen to endure one of the world's most grueling sports

Professional sumo is one of the harshest environments in sports. Yet many toil away in the sport's lower-tier divisions for years or even decades.

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