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Artificial intelligence avatar Una will appear at the U.N. pavilion at Osaka Expo later this month as part of initiatives to combat climate change.
JAPAN
Sep 16, 2025

Japan-backed AI avatar to promote climate action at expo

The anime-inspired female character, Una, was developed as part of climate initiatives supported by the Japanese government.
Stephen Miran, one of U.S. President Donald Trump's top economic advisers, attends a Senate hearing on his nomination to join the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, in Washington on Sept. 4.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 16, 2025

U.S. Senate confirms Trump aide to Fed as politics loom over rate meeting

A U.S. federal appeals court also ruled that Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook can remain in her position while challenging President Donald Trump's attempt to remove her.
Pro-Palestinian protesters wave flags and banners during the final stage of the Vuelta a Espana in Madrid on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Cycling
Sep 16, 2025

Cycling fears spread of race-halting protests after Vuelta chaos

The three-week stage race was repeatedly disrupted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators fired up by the presence in the race of the Israel Premier Tech team.
Workers at a site of a new Amazon data center that is under construction in western Sydney, Australia, on Sept. 5
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 16, 2025

In Australia, a data center boom is built on vague water plans

Concerns have emerged that the sector's rapid growth will leave residents competing for the resource.
Members of the Danish armed forces perform a military drill on a Danish navy vessel after being lowered from a helicopter, as Danish and French armed forces perform military drills off the coast of Nuuk, Greenland, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2025

Nordic ministers attend Greenland war games without U.S.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the United States needs the strategically located, resource-rich island for security reasons, sparking diplomatic tensions with Denmark.
U.S. President Donald Trump aboard Marine One on Friday. On Saturday, Trump set conditions for imposing new sanctions on Russia, saying he would do so only if all NATO member nations did the same as well as stopped buying Russian oil and imposed steep tariffs on China.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2025

Europe stumped by Trump demands over Russia sanctions

Diplomats fear it could be a ploy by the U.S. president to again stall on taking a tough stance against Moscow himself.
A soldier stands guard near Singha Durbar, the main administrative building for the Nepal government, after it was set ablaze by protesters, in Kathmandu on Sept. 12.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 16, 2025

'No regrets': wounded Nepali protesters proud of changes

One 22-year-old who ended up with bullet fragments lodged in his arm and stomach during protests said he would do it again "if there is no change."
Bedouins, many of whom were displaced by fighting in the Sweida region, receive donated bread in the village of Umm Walad, Syria, on July 28.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2025

Sectarian violence risks dividing Syria despite al-Sharaa's diplomacy

The country's Alawite, Christian and Druze minorities have voiced anger at the president's Islamist administration following outbreaks of sectarian violence.
Children stand near a nursery in Belgorod, Russia, on Aug. 26.
WORLD
Sep 16, 2025

Russia expanding forced re-education of deported Ukrainian children

U.S.-funded research has identified more than 210 sites where Ukrainian children have been taken for military training, drone manufacturing and other forced re-education.
Cars drive along a road during a snowstorm in the Arctic city of Norilsk, Russia, on March 19.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Sep 16, 2025

Ticket to the Arctic: Inside Russia's system of convict labor

Russia says forced labor, introduced in 2011, is a humane form of punishment. Convicts tell a much different story.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks at Lancaster House in London on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 16, 2025

Lack of successor keeps U.K.'s Starmer safe as Labour mulls his ouster

Plots against British leader Keir Starmer have dominated the headlines in Britain following the messy departures of key members of his government.
Palestinians inspect the site of an overnight Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 16, 2025

Israel says 'Gaza is burning' as it launches ground assault

Gaza health officials reported at least 24 people killed, most of them in Gaza City, in the early hours of the assault.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 7
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 16, 2025

Ishiba may visit South Korea for talks with Lee, sources say

The trip, if realized, would be Ishiba's first visit to South Korea since taking office in October last year.
Tyler Robinson, 22, the suspect in the shooting death of Charlie Kirk, appears by camera before Judge Tony Graf of the 4th District Court on Tuesday for his initial appearance in Provo, Utah.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 17, 2025

Prosecutors to seek death penalty for suspect in Charlie Kirk assassination

The killing sparked denunciations of political violence but also raised concern that Kirk's murder might beget more bloodshed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin tours an exhibition of military equipment while inspecting the joint Russian-Belarusian military drills at a training ground in Russia's Nizhny Novogorod region on Tuesday.
WORLD
Sep 17, 2025

Moscow and Minsk rehearse launch of nuclear weapons deployed in Belarus

Russia and Belarus are rehearsing the launch of Russian tactical nuclear weapons as part of joint war games, Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor attends a ceremony by the U.S. Postal Service for the unveiling of a new stamp commemorating late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington in 2023.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 17, 2025

As Trump exerts power, U.S. Supreme Court justice raises specter of a 'king'

Justice Sonia Sotomayor emphasized the need for Americans to know the difference between a president and a king.
Ukrainian soldiers fire toward Russian troops near a front line, in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, on Aug. 20.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 17, 2025

Trump administration clears first Ukraine arms aid paid for by allies, sources say

Since taking office, the Trump administration has only sold weapons to Ukraine or shipped donations which were authorized by former President Joe Biden.
Japan's exports slipped 0.1% in August from a year earlier, led by a 13.8% drop in the value of shipments to the U.S., with cars the main drag.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 17, 2025

Japan’s exports fall for fourth month as U.S. shipments tumble

Exports slipped 0.1% in August from a year earlier, led by cars and steel, the Finance Ministry reported Wednesday.
Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato takes part in an online meeting of Group of Seven finance ministers on Friday.
BUSINESS
Sep 17, 2025

Japan pushes back on U.S. call for tariff hikes over Russian oil

Tokyo is cautious about joining efforts to raise tariffs on countries trading with Russia as Japan itself has continued importing LNG from its neighbor.
Gloria Tsang, a 33-year-old speech therapist, and her wife Jaedyn Yu, a 35-year-old drum school owner, walk on a pedestrian overpass in Hong Kong on Sept. 12.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 17, 2025

Hong Kong newlyweds lament veto on same-sex rights bill as blow to city

The same-sex bill represented an opportunity to implement what would have been a rare liberal shift in Hong Kong's legal landscape.
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 17, 2025

Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo

Regardless of their motivations, foreign property buyers in Japan have come under the magnifying glass.
Yasuhiko Ito speaks of his experience as an internee under the Soviet Union after World War II, in the city of Fukuoka in April, prior to his death in May at the age of 100.
JAPAN / History
Sep 17, 2025

Former Japanese internee in Ukraine pained by Russian invasion

After World War II, Yasuhiko Ito was taken as a disarmed soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army by the former Soviet Union to Ukraine for forced labor.
Despite centuries of overfishing and ecological collapse, the recovery of tuna stocks shows that strong regulation and economic self-interest can make once-endangered species sustainably abundant again.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 16, 2025

Tuna sushi is safe from extinction, for now

With the exception of Mediterranean albacore (a favorite of Spanish canneries) and bigeye in the Indian Ocean, every population is now being fished within sustainable levels.
Han Hak-ja, the leader of the Unification Church, arrives at the special prosecutors' office for questioning over allegations, which she has denied, that she instructed the church to bribe the wife of ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and a politician close to him, in Seoul on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 17, 2025

Unification Church head questioned in probe on South Korea's ex-first lady

Han Hak-ja was quizzed over her alleged involvement in bribing Kim Keon Hee, wife of ousted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The promise of autumn is one of relaxation and just being cozy overall.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 18, 2025

How Japanese captures the subtle shift into autumn

From the equinox to cooler mornings, Japanese grammar and expressions reflect how the season gradually deepens into autumn.
Sebastien Lecornu became France's fifth prime minister last week.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 18, 2025

Tax the rich or fall: French prime minister faces budget ultimatum

Sebastien Lecornu, who last week became France's fifth prime minister, is racing to draft a budget that is due to be sent to lawmakers by Oct. 7.
Atalanta midfielder Yunus Musah (left) and Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Joao Neves fight for the ball during their Champions League match on Wednesday in Paris.
SOCCER
Sep 18, 2025

PSG overwhelms Atalanta 4-0 in Champions League opener

Marquinhos opened the scoring inside the first three minutes, and PSG followed that up with goals from Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Nuno Mendes and substitute Goncalo Ramos.
Kunio Yanagida, author of a nonfiction book about Typhoon Ida and the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, speaks at a symposium in Hatsukaichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Sunday.
JAPAN
Sep 18, 2025

80 years after bombing and typhoon, Hiroshima guide warns of double tragedy risk

Typhoon Ida killed 3,756 people in Japan, including atomic bomb survivors and specialist medics, just a month after the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
Nippon Yusen CEO Takaya Soga says the company is planning to boost its LNG fleet to more than 130 vessels by early 2029, up from 89.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 18, 2025

Japan’s top shipping company to expand LNG fleet as global demand climbs

Nippon Yusen is planning to boost its fleet to more than 130 vessels by early 2029, up from 89.
With the U.S. stepping up its sweeping anti-immigration crackdown, rights activists warn deporting Russian dissidents puts them at risk of prison and persecution back home.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2025

'I don't cry anymore': In U.S. jail, Russian dissidents fear deportation

With the U.S. stepping up its sweeping anti-immigration crackdown, rights activists warn deporting Russian dissidents puts them at risk of prison and persecution back home.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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