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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian leader Masoud Pezeshkian shake hands during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 18, 2025

Russia and Iran draw closer with new pact before Trump returns

The comprehensive strategic partnership agreement seeks to deepen political and economic ties as the two countries grapple with sanctions imposed by the U.S. and its allies.
Asylum seekers line up before crossing to the U.S. for appointments at El Chaparral crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on Monday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Jan 18, 2025

Gangs cash in on desperation of U.S.-bound migrants

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office next week, gangs are using threats and extortion to exploit migrants trying to arrive in time.
U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington in August 2022, after returning from a trip to Kentucky.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 18, 2025

How Biden’s inner circle protected a faltering president

“Your biggest issue is the perception of age,” Mike Donilon, the president’s longtime strategist, told him in 2022, according to people who heard him.
The SpaceX Starship rocket's Super Heavy booster lands, as seen from South Padre Island near Brownsville, Texas, on Thursday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 18, 2025

U.S. grounds SpaceX's Starship after fiery midair explosion

Under established procedures, SpaceX will now be required to carry out a "mishap investigation."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump greet each other at a campaign event sponsored by conservative group Turning Point USA, in Duluth, Georgia, in October.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 18, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sought to stop COVID-19 shots six months after rollout

Donald Trump's pick to lead U.S. health agencies, petitioned the FDA to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand and considered life-saving.
Poland's Iga Swiatek hits a forehand during her third round match against Britain's Emma Raducanu on Saturday in Melbourne.
TENNIS
Jan 18, 2025

Rampant Swiatek has ball 'listening' to her in rout of Raducanu

Swiatek has only once reached the semifinal in Melbourne but signaled she is ready to go all the way with a 6-1, 6-0, destruction of the 2021 U.S. Open winner.
Eugene Kangawa's Atelier iii is a space where visitors are invited to engage directly with the artist’s evolving practice.
CULTURE / Art
Jan 18, 2025

Eugene Kangawa’s art space embraces impermanence

The artist’s Atelier iii studio resists spectacle and asks visitors to slow down and commit to being present.
Pro-Yoon Suk Yeol protesters participate in a rally outside a court in Seoul on Saturday where Yoon made an appearance before a judge.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 18, 2025

Yoon defends himself in court against longer detention

The president spoke before the judge for about 40 minutes in the first session and about five minutes in final remarks, according to local media.
Aemu Oyama, one of Japan's most promising young talents, will join Manchester City's women's squad.
SOCCER
Jan 19, 2025

Rising Japanese star Aemu Oyama signs with Manchester City Women

Oyama, one of Japan's most promising young talents, will join the English club from Waseda University.
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce runs clear of the Texans defense during the fourth quarter of Kansas City's divisional round win on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Jan 19, 2025

Kelce and Mahomes combination leads Chiefs past Texans in NFL playoffs

The Chiefs tight end — with pop superstar girlfriend Taylor Swift cheering him on from the VIP seats — produced a vintage performance in tandem with his superstar quarterback.
A firefighter lights a controlled burn in a forest environment in Bages, southwestern France, on Saturday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 19, 2025

Slew of satellite projects aims to head off future wildfires

Tech-focused groups are launching new orbiters as space launches get cheaper, while machine-learning techniques will sift the torrent of information.
The frame of a building amid the rubble of burned-out homes by the Palisades Fire along the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, California, on Friday
WORLD
Jan 19, 2025

Milder winds help Los Angeles firefighters as Trump vows to visit

The reprieve may be short-lived, as there is "virtually zero chance of rain" over the next week, which is also expected to see a return of the notoriously powerful Santa Ana winds.
German Ambassador to the U.S. Andreas Michaelis has described U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's agenda for his second White House term as one of "maximum disruption."
WORLD / Politics
Jan 19, 2025

German ambassador warns of Trump plan to redefine constitutional order, document shows

The briefing document describes Donald Trump's agenda for his second White House term as one of "maximum disruption."
Coco Gauff celebrates after defeating Belinda Bencic in the fourth round of the Australian Open on Sunday.
TENNIS
Jan 19, 2025

Gauff turns up heat on Bencic to reach Australian Open quarters

The world No. 3 was not at her best but outlasted Switzerland's Belinda Bencic 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 on the hottest day in Melbourne so far.
People attend a New Year's celebration in Wuhan, China, on Jan. 1.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 19, 2025

Wuhan keen to shake off pandemic label five years on

There is nothing to mark the location of the world's first COVID-19 lockdown — in fact, there are no major memorials to the lives lost to the virus anywhere in the city.
Makeshift housing units are built on Tanegashima island, Kagoshima Prefesture, for workers involved in construction of an Air Self-Defense Force base on nearby Mageshima island.
JAPAN
Jan 19, 2025

ASDF base construction on Mageshima to be delayed by three years

The completion is expected for the end of March 2030 due to bad weather and a labor shortage.
A Palestinian woman returns to her destroyed house, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, on Sunday.
WORLD
Jan 19, 2025

Fighting halts in Gaza as ceasefire takes effect after brief delay

Residents and a medical worker in Gaza said they had heard no new fighting or military strikes since about half an hour before the ceasefire was finally implemented.
John Adolph holds his son, Remy, as he stays with his friends after his home in Altadena was damaged during the Eaton Fire, in Eagle Rock, California, on Friday.
WORLD
Jan 20, 2025

Displaced by wildfires, Los Angeles' residents search for a place to live

In the wake of the wildfires, rents in Los Angeles have surged, and uncertainty over insurance settlements has left some of the displaced in limbo.
A member of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) stands along a street after rebels seized the capital and ousted Syria's Bashar Assad, in Hasakah, Syria, on Dec. 11.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 20, 2025

Negotiators zero in on potential deal to disarm Syria's last battleground

Many thorny issues still need to be resolved, however, including how to integrate Kurdish-led forces into Syria's security framework.
Holocaust survivor Pedro Buchwald, 87, shows his badge used at the concentration camp during an interview in Buenos Aires on Dec. 26.
WORLD / Society
Jan 20, 2025

The Roma Holocaust: A little-documented genocide

Just 10% of Austria's 11,000 Roma and Sinti survived the Nazi atrocities.
Russia shipped 2.96 million barrels a day of crude in the four weeks to Jan. 12.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 20, 2025

Where the U.S. has squeezed Russia’s oil flows the hardest

The latest U.S. sanctions on oil tankers hauling Russian petroleum look set to cause severe disruption across the nation’s export machine.
Economists, legal experts and business leaders concur that incoming U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to implement fresh tariffs — whether directly aimed at Japan or not — could hurt the country's export-reliant machinery and automobiles industries while shattering the global economy.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Jan 20, 2025

Japanese firms weigh fallout from Trump tariff pledges

Additional tariffs — whether directly aimed at Japan or not — could hurt its export-reliant machinery and automobiles industries while shattering the global economy.
Former U.S. President Joe Biden and former first lady Jill Biden wave as they board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, during a farewell ceremony on Monday following Donald Trump's inauguration.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2025

Biden issues preemptive pardons for family and targets of Trump ire

Trump has repeatedly called for the prosecution of his perceived enemies since winning the White House in November.
Scottie Scheffler of Team USA plays in a singles match during the final round of The Presidents Cup golf tournament in Ile Bizard, Quebec, Canada, on Sept. 29.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Jan 21, 2025

Scheffler won't 'rush back' to golf after Christmas hand injury

The player indicated he could launch his season at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am next week.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio arrives ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th president of the United States in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2025

Rubio wins unanimous nod to be top U.S. diplomat

Unusually in a highly partisan era, Rubio was confirmed 99-0, with several senators from the rival Democratic Party describing Rubio as a friend.
#AfghanEvac founder Shawn VanDiver speaks during a memorandum of understanding signing as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken looks on at the National Museum for American Diplomacy in the Department of State in Washington, on June 12, 2023. VanDiver's organization is the main coalition that has been working with the U.S. government to evacuate and resettle Afghans in the U.S.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2025

Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees

The group includes minors awaiting reunification with their families in the U.S. and Afghans at risk of Taliban retribution, a U.S official and a refugee resettlement advocate say.
A keen fisherman from Tokyo (Masaki Suda) moves to a tight-knit community in Miyagi Prefecture during the COVID-19 pandemic in “Sunset Sunrise.”
CULTURE / Film
Jan 21, 2025

‘Sunset Sunrise’: Rom-com finds pathos in peak pandemic setting

Yoshiyuki Kishi’s film delivers a deliciously uplifting story with humor and heart in a tight-knit community impacted by disasters.
Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Majed Al-Ansari, looks at a paper as he speaks after Qatar helped mediate a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, in Doha on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2025

Mediators on standby for obstacles as Gaza ceasefire starts

"These kinds of deals are never easy to maintain," said a spokesperson for Qatar's foreign ministry, which helped broker the ceasefire.
The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei on Monday. A magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit southern Taiwan on Tuesday, causing buildings in the capital Taipei to shake.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 21, 2025

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake shakes Taiwan, U.S. Geological Survey says

The shallow quake struck 12 kilometers north of Yujing, a mango-growing district in southern Taiwan, in the wee hours of Tuesday.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a news conference in Mexico City on Jan. 13.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2025

How Mexico is readying for Trump’s promised mass deportations

The country has launched a panic app for those detained and lined up more than 2,600 lawyers and nearly 2,200 consulate workers.

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