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Palestinian mother Iman Abdel Halim Abu Mutlaq holds her newborn twins Uday and Hamza Abu Odah inside the maternity ward at Nasser hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 2, 2023.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2025

The Gaza twins whose whole lives have been war

The lives of the children have been defined and encompassed by Israel's military offensive, launched in response to the deadly attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 8, 2025

Trump says U.S. and Canada working on formula for tariff deal

The U.S. president described the two North American nations as being in "natural conflict” because they’re competing for the same business.
The World Bank has highlighted a persistent gap between younger and more experienced workers across several Asian economies in a regional economic update released Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 8, 2025

Asia’s youth struggle to find good jobs, World Bank warns

The bank highlighted a persistent gap between younger and more experienced workers across several Asian economies.
It has long been known that depression is more common in women, but the biological causes remain something of a mystery.
WORLD / Society
Oct 8, 2025

Study finds women have higher genetic risk of depression

Scientists poured through the DNA of almost 200,000 people with depression to pinpoint shared genetic "flags."
Palestinians celebrate in Khan Younis on Thursday following news of a new Gaza ceasefire deal.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 9, 2025

Joy in Israel and Gaza after ceasefire announced

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the ceasefire would take effect once ratified by the Israeli government.
Spanish peacekeeping officers stand in formation during Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles' visit to the Spanish United Nations Interim Forces (UNIFIL) in Marjaayoun, Southern Lebanon, on Jan. 20.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 9, 2025

U.N. to slash a quarter of peacekeepers globally over lack of funds

The U.S., the U.N.'s largest peacekeeping contributor, was already $1.5 billion in arrears before the new financial year began on July 1, and it now owes an extra $1.3 billion.
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street in London on Oct. 2
WORLD / Politics
Oct 9, 2025

Britain's Starmer denies trying to appease China after spying case dropped

Two men had been accused of passing politically sensitive information to a Chinese intelligence agent.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth addresses senior military officers in Quantico, Virginia, on Sept. 30.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 9, 2025

Press groups condemn U.S. Defense Department rules governing media access

The new policy would constrain the media's ability to cover the world's most powerful military.
Empress Nagako, posthumously known as Empress Kojun, fixes the hair of Emperor Hirohito, known posthumously as Emperor Showa, at the Nasu Imperial Villa in Tochigi Prefecture in August 1947.
JAPAN / History
Oct 9, 2025

Official records of late Empress Kojun's life include her experiences in World War II

The empress spent Aug. 15, 1945, when Emperor Showa declared Japan's surrender in World War II, inside a bunker facility that had served as her home, the records state.
Legal scholar Shigeto Hozumi conducted some 250 lecture sessions for Empress Nagako, posthumously known as Empress Kojun, between 1924 and 1950.
JAPAN / History
Oct 9, 2025

Late Empress Kojun received lectures on World War II from experts, records show

In a lecture in February 1942, after Japan went to war with the United States, one scholar explained to Empress Kojun speeches delivered to parliament by the then prime minister.
Tokyo was ranked the world's best large city for the second year in a row in the Conde Nast Traveler's 2025 Readers' Choice Awards.
JAPAN
Oct 9, 2025

Tokyo named world’s best big city for second straight year

Recognition from readers of luxury travel and lifestyle magazine Conde Nast Traveler comes after Japan welcomed a record 36.8 million foreign visitors in 2024.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 10, 2025

Trump exerted leverage for Gaza deal but tough questions remain

Despite its potentially historic nature, the rushed deal leaves a host of unresolved issues that could still trip up implementation.
John Clarke, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, is interviewed on campus on Tuesday after being named one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 10, 2025

Nobel Prizes this year offer three cheers for slow science

In an age when government efficiency has been used to justify sharp cuts to scientific funding, the science Nobels offer a case for plodding curiosity.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba holds a news conference in Tokyo on Friday to deliver his statement on World War II
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 10, 2025

Ishiba statement explores Japan's failure to avoid World War II

Ishiba’s message was released in a personal capacity, without the formal approval of his entire Cabinet.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Oct. 5.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 11, 2025

Trusting Trump: Why Hamas gambled on giving up Gaza hostages

The U.S. president's handling of Israel's Qatar attack on Hamas officials gave the group more faith that he was serious about ending the war in Gaza.
Dodgers relief pitcher Roki Sasaki throws during the eighth inning of Game 4 of the National League Division Series on Thursday in Los Angeles.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 11, 2025

From tears to triumph: Roki Sasaki powering Dodgers toward World Series

The 23-year-old Japanese pitcher produced a performance for the ages on Thursday as the Los Angels Dodgers eliminated the Philadelphia Phillies.
People walk amid the destruction in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Saturday, a day after an Israel-Hamas ceasefire took effect.
WORLD
Oct 12, 2025

Gazans stream back home as Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds

Thousands of Palestinians streamed north along the coast of Gaza on Saturday, trekking by foot, car, and cart back to their abandoned homes as a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas appeared to be holding.
Released Israeli hostages, twins Gali and Ziv Berman, held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, speak to each other after being released, as part of a prisoner-hostage swap and a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Reim, Israel, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 13, 2025

Hamas hands over surviving Israeli hostages as Trump visits region

A hostage swap between the two sides is a key step in ending two years of ruinous war in Gaza under a ceasefire deal engineered by U.S. President Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Russian leader Vladimir Putin as they meet at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 13, 2025

Trump may approve Tomahawks for Ukraine if Russia continues war

U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments signal an openness to expanding the range of weaponry provided to Ukraine but also that he remains focused on a ceasefire.
Eduardo Santoyo stands by his family's tamales stand in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago on Saturday. Santoyo's mother, Maria, was tending their business on Friday morning when she was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 13, 2025

Snatched: How ICE raids are shattering Chicago's immigrant world

Families are left to pick up the pieces as immigration agents swoop in without warning, often in broad daylight, snatch unsuspecting residents and drive off.
Valentin Vacherot hits a return to Arthur Rinderknech during the men's singles final at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament in Shanghai on Sunday.
TENNIS
Oct 13, 2025

World No. 204 Vacherot in shock after 'crazy' Shanghai triumph

Vacherot admitted having to face his cousin in the final was "not easy ... to deal with."
Secretary-General of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren addresses journalists during the announcement of the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday. (From left, in the projected image) Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt were recognized “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth.”
WORLD
Oct 13, 2025

Trio wins 2025 Nobel economics prize for work on innovation and growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt win the 2025 Nobel economics prize for explaining innovation-driven growth and the role of creative destruction.
Crowds gather as a helicopter carrying hostages freed from captivity by Hamas in Gaza arrives at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 14, 2025

Trump hails 'tremendous day for Middle East' as leaders sign Gaza declaration

The signing came hours after Israel and Hamas exchanged hostages and prisoners.
France's Economy and Finance Minister Roland Lescure (left) and Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard arrive for a meeting with the newly appointed members of the reappointed Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu's Cabinet, at the Hotel Matignon in Paris on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 14, 2025

France's embattled prime minister faces clutch day in parliament

France is in a deep political crisis that has spooked markets and raised concern about its minority government's ability to govern and ease the country's debt burden.
Iceland defender Victor Palsson (left) falls over France forward Jean-Philippe Mateta during a 2026 World Cup qualifying round match in Reykjavik on Monday.
SOCCER
Oct 14, 2025

France faces crunch match against Ukraine after 2-2 draw with Iceland

France remains top of Group D with 10 points from four games, three ahead of Ukraine, which beat Azerbaijan 2-1 on Monday.
A container ship at the Port of Los Angeles. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has accused China of pointing a bazooka at the supply chains and the industrial base of the entire free world with its rare earth curbs.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 14, 2025

Trump and Xi spark another standoff with world economy at risk

The question now is which side blinks first.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech during the Gaza Peace Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 14, 2025

Trump basks in the spotlight in Egypt with harder part to come

Trump has offered a vision for a broader Middle East peace after the success of U.S.-led mediation efforts to end the fighting in Gaza. But these goals are formidable.
A worker at one of the Blast Furnaces at British Steel's steelworks site on April 15
WORLD / Politics
Oct 14, 2025

Brexit, decay and politics collide on U.K.’s industrial east coast

The common thread is fading industrial competitiveness because of things like high energy costs compared to rivals like China, that politicians have struggled to address.
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport as Trump leaves Israel en route to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to attend a world leaders' summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal, in Lod, Israel, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 14, 2025

Trump convinced Netanyahu to take a deal. Can he keep him on board?

With Israel and Hamas divided over many aspects of Trump's plan, Netanyahu's approach may shift as he attempts to keep his right-wing coalition together for next year's elections.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order on tariffs at the White House on April 2. Trump's protectionism is rippling through labor markets and dampening consumer demand around the world.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2025

Is the global economy as resilient as it seems?

U.S. economic expansion is losing steam as the Trump's erratic economic policies, harsh immigration tactics and cuts in social expenditures take a toll on growth and employment.
Why I chose Japanese citizenship over permanent residency
Jon Heese (second left) takes part in a 2024 New Year's nihonshu barrel opening ceremony.
Tokyo ordered to pay damages to South Asian woman over police response
The Tokyo High Court held that, “even taking the woman’s consent into account” for sharing her personal information, the officers breached their duty of care and acted unlawfully.
Former PM Tomiichi Murayama dies at age 101
Former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama speaks during an interview in Tokyo in March 2007.
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.
Tokyo's best Sunday roasts and all their trimmings
Swan & Lion's Sunday roast, which is drenched in a red wine gravy, is part of a three-course meal.
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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