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The McLaren team celebrates on the podium after clinching the constructors' title.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Oct 6, 2025

Flare-up between McLaren drivers overshadows team's constructors' title triumph

McLaren team principal Andrea Stella reiterated that Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris will remain free to race each other until the end of the season.
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 6, 2025

‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan

India and Pakistan’s brief war earlier this year has offered numerous lessons on the evolving nature of warfare, according to Indian Army Chief of Staff Gen. Upendra Dwivedi.
Cuba Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez addresses the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 27.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2025

Citing Cuban fighters in Ukraine, U.S. urges allies to shun Havana at U.N.

U.S. diplomats will tell countries that the Cuban government is actively supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine with up to 5,000 Cubans fighting alongside Moscow's forces.
Shirakawago, a U.N. World Heritage site in Gifu Prefecture
JAPAN
Oct 6, 2025

Spanish tourist injured in latest bear attack

The 44-year-old tourist was pounced on from behind as he was walking to a bus stop on Sunday.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s new Pentagon policy mandating pre-approval for unclassified information threatens to reverse nearly a century of First Amendment protections.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2025

Hegseth tries turning back 94 years of press freedom

The history on his side has been discredited by the Supreme Court for a century.
Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and distinguished professor at Osaka University, attends a news conference after winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, in Osaka Prefecture on Monday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2025

Japanese immunologist among three Nobel medicine prize winners

Japanese immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi was awarded the prize along with two other scientists for their discovery concerning peripheral immune tolerance.
French President Emmanuel Macron attends and event in Saarbruecken, Germany, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 7, 2025

Macron wanders alone by the Seine as grip on his future slips away

The resignation of his fifth prime minister in two years has raised the chances that he will not make it to the end of his term.
Air traffic controllers work in the control tower at Los Angeles International Airport in 2016. Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers must still turn up for work during the government shutdown, but they are not being paid.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2025

Slight rise in U.S. air traffic controllers calling in sick seen since shutdown began

Air traffic controllers and Transportation Security Administration officers must still turn up for work during the shutdown, but they are not being paid.
U.S. President Donald Trump attends an event at the White House on Monday.
WORLD
Oct 7, 2025

White House says no shutdown-related layoffs yet, but warns they could come

Previous shutdowns have not forced the government to fire any workers, though hundreds of thousands are typically told not to work.
Law enforcement officers stand guard outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters, after U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut on Sunday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from sending any National Guard troops to police Portland, in south Portland, Oregon, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025

Trump says may invoke Insurrection Act to deploy more troops in U.S.

The U.S. president openly mulled use of the Insurrection Act after a federal judge in Oregon temporarily halted a National Guard deployment in Portland.
Tiger Woods participates in a ribbon-cutting event in Philadelphia on Sept. 8. The 49-year-old golfer last competed at the British Open in July 2024.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Oct 7, 2025

Woods to make TGL Season 2 debut in mid-January

Woods will lead Jupiter Links Golf Club in a Jan. 13 match against Season 1 runner-up New York Golf Club.
Red Bull team principal Laurent Mekies on the grid before the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Sept. 21
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Oct 7, 2025

Red Bull's Mekies taking no credit as Verstappen narrows F1 gap

The four-time world champion has won twice since Mekies arrived six races ago.
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and U.S. President Donald Trump meet at the White House in 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025

Trump seems to turn page on Bolsonaro in ‘very good’ Lula call

In a 30-minute conversation, the two leaders discussed lifting trade levies and U.S. sanctions on Brazilian officials, without mentioning former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (left) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (right) attend a European Union leaders' summit in Brussels in June 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 7, 2025

Ukraine's obstacles to EU membership extend beyond Hungarian resistance

Senior European Union officials who recently visited Ukraine have delivered a stern message that Kyiv still has a lot more to do.
Toyota Chairman Akio Toyoda's ¥4.7 trillion buyout plan for Toyota Industries is delayed due to slower-than-expected antitrust reviews overseas.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2025

Toyota Industries $31 billion buyout plan faces antitrust delays

The regulatory hurdle could be the first of many as Toyoda attempts to tighten his family’s grip on Toyota in a deal that would rank among the biggest buyouts on record anywhere.
A screen capture from video shows trekkers leaving their campsite as unusually heavy snow and rainfall pummeled the Himalayas, in China's Tibet Region on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 7, 2025

Hundreds of trekkers rescued from Everest in Tibet amid unusually heavy snow

October is a peak season, when skies usually clear at the end of the Indian monsoon.
OpenAI has rolled out a social app powered by Sora 2, its artificial intelligence video generator, which was quickly flooded with videos featuring iconic Japanese intellectual property.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 7, 2025

OpenAI’s Sora 2 is drowning in Japanese 'AI slop'

Iconic Japanese characters are prevalent across Sora 2, but legally, this places the company on shaky ground.
Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and a distinguished professor of Osaka University, attends a news conference after winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, in Suita, Osaka prefecture, on Monday.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2025

With medical breakthrough, Japan’s latest Nobel winner bucked convention

Shimon Sakaguchi’s unwavering conviction in the validity of his research paid off with the discovery of immune-regulating cells — and a Nobel Prize in medicine.
A woman places a candle as people grieve at the site of the Nova festival where partygoers were killed and kidnapped, in Reim, southern Israel, on Tuesday, the two-year anniversary of the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas from Gaza.
WORLD / Society
Oct 7, 2025

Israel marks Oct. 7 anniversary as talks in Egypt aim to end Gaza war

Hamas' attack killed 1,219 people, according to Israeli figures. Israel's retaliatory campaign has killed at least 67,160 people, according to data the U.N. considers credible.
Participants from various countries take part in a discussion at a global forum to discuss eliminating nuclear damage on Monday in the city of Hiroshima.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2025

Nuclear victims hold global forum in Hiroshima

The event was held for the first time in 10 years.
Jannik Sinner (right) reacts on the bench as he receives medical attention during his men's singles match against Tallon Griekspoor at the Shanghai Masters tennis tournament in Shanghai on Sunday.
TENNIS
Oct 7, 2025

ATP open to heat policy after string of retirements in Shanghai sauna

The temperature at the Shanghai Masters was at around 30 degrees Celsius throughout the opening rounds with the humidity soaring over 80% at times.
Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito speaks to reporters at parliament after meeting with Liberal Democratic Party executives on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 7, 2025

Future of Japan's ruling coalition uncertain as Komeito pushes back on Takaichi

Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito has said that they cannot form a coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party unless Komeito's concerns are addressed.
A bust of Swedish chemist, inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel, founder and namesake of the Nobel Prize, stands at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2025

Nobel physics prize goes to pioneers of quantum mechanics

Quantum technology is already ubiquitous, with transistors in computer microchips an everyday example.
A woman sits at a camp for people displaced by war in northern Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 8, 2025

Hamas says it wants ‘fair hostage exchange’ in Egypt talks

The Palestinian militant group’s negotiating team in Egypt will aim to "eliminate all obstacles” to a settlement, a spokesperson said.
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks to the press in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Oct. 2.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 8, 2025

Macron urged to quit to end France political crisis

Macron is facing pressure even from allies to find a rapid solution to France's political deadlock.
The Asahi Group headquarters complex in Tokyo
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 8, 2025

Qilin cybercrime gang claims hack on Japan's Asahi

The ransomware group has a track record of intrusions against major entities around the world.
A demonstrator wrapped in a U.S. flag stands amid smoke during a protest at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 8, 2025

Trump's Insurrection Act threat escalates showdown with Democratic cities

President Donald Trump again left open the possibility of using the Insurrection Act to sidestep any court rulings blocking the dispatch of guard troops into Democratic-led cities.
Masanaga Kageyama, the Japan Football Association's technical director
SOCCER
Oct 8, 2025

Japanese football official sentenced for viewing child sexual abuse images

Masanaga Kageyama, the association's technical director, was arrested last week during a stopover in Paris on the way to Chile to attend the Under-20 World Cup.
The Olympic Village under construction in Milan on Aug. 6
OLYMPICS
Oct 8, 2025

Italy to propose global ceasefire for 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics

As a concept, a global truce during the Olympics dates to the ancient games in Greece where warring factions agreed to put down their arms for the duration of the event.
Sanae Takaichi speaks to reporters on Aug. 15, the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, following her visit to Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 8, 2025

Takaichi may skip Yasukuni visit during Autumn Festival

The new LDP chief is apparently taking into account the impact a visit might have ahead of busy diplomatic schedule and how it could hurt relations with coalition partner Komeito.

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo