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A worker cleans broken glass at a hotel close to Quy Nhon beach as Typhoon Kalmaegi makes landfall in Gia Lai province in central Vietnam Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 7, 2025

Typhoon Kalmaegi brings destruction to Vietnam as Philippines death toll rises

The storm hit central Vietnam late on Thursday, uprooting trees, damaging homes and triggering power outages, before weakening as it moved inland.
Smugglers' boats sail with migrants onboard as they attempt to cross the English Channel off the northern French beach of Gravelines in September.
WORLD / Society
Nov 7, 2025

Under pressure? EU states on edge over migrant burden-sharing

A new "solidarity" system for managing asylum seekers, aimed at easing the burden on frontline countries such as Spain, Greece and Italy, will soon come into force.
Satellite view of Minamitorishima Island
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2025

Japan and U.S. to join forces to mine rare earths near Pacific island

The move comes after the two allies struck an agreement to work together to cut their reliance on China for the critical material.
The second Trump administration has challenged the European Union’s hard-won market indispensability and forced it into a defensive posture.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Nov 7, 2025

Trump 2.0 diminishes European Union power

Despite the EU’s large consumer market, the political and economic union has failed to fully exercise its strengths since the start of the second Trump administration.
Aryna Sabalenka hits a shot against Coco Gauff during their match at the WTA Finals in Riyadh on Thursday.
TENNIS
Nov 7, 2025

Aryna Sabalenka and Jessica Pegula reach semifinal round at WTA Finals

The top-seeded Sabalenka ended the title defense of Coco Gauff by defeating the American 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 in the closing match of the round-robin stage
Visitors look at a model of the Fujian aircraft carrier displayed at the China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, in China's Guangdong province, in November 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 7, 2025

China’s new aircraft carrier begins service in boost to Beijing

The carrier joins the People’s Liberation Army Navy as Beijing is locked in territorial disputes in regional waters such as the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.
Aya Fujioka, who hails from Hiroshima Prefecture, takes a less somber approach to the city and its history.
CULTURE / Art
Nov 8, 2025

What we see when Japanese women photographers shoot back

Women in photography have been less visible than their male counterparts. An anthology of 25 photographers and three exhibitions this autumn are turning the tides.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hold a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 8, 2025

Hungary's Orban wins Russian oil sanctions exemption from Trump

The U.S. decision to impose sanctions on Russia’s biggest oil firms threatened to undermine Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s already shaky bid for a fifth consecutive term.
Canceled flights on a flight boards at Chicago O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Friday
WORLD
Nov 8, 2025

U.S. warns it could force 20% flight cuts if shutdown continues

The FAA instructed airlines to cut 4% of flights on Friday at 40 major airports because of the government shutdown. The cuts will rise to 10% by Nov. 14.
Palestinians walk amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Friday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 8, 2025

U.S. intel found Israeli military lawyers warned there was evidence of Gaza war crimes

The previously unreported intelligence pointed to doubts within the Israeli military about the legality of its tactics in Gaza.
Ukrainian soldiers prepare to fire a howitzer toward Russian troops near Donetsk
WORLD
Nov 8, 2025

Ukraine digs in to try to halt biggest Russian win in two years

More than 300 Russian soldiers have entered the eastern city of Pokrovsk in an intense assault, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday.
James Watson — the Nobel laureate co-credited with the pivotal discovery of DNA's double-helix structure — has died, his former lab said Friday. He was 97.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 8, 2025

James Watson, Nobel prize-winning DNA pioneer, dead at 97

Watson was co-credited for the discovery of DNA's double-helix structure, but his reputation was later tainted by his repeated racist remarks.
Volunteers place boxes of food into a truck bed as more than 100 cars visit the Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center food distribution site, weeks into the continuing U.S. government shutdown, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Friday.
WORLD
Nov 8, 2025

U.S. Supreme Court pauses judge's order requiring Trump to fully fund food aid

The ruling came after the administration said it would provide $4.65 billion in emergency funding to partially cover food benefits for November.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a news conference in Moscow last month.
WORLD
Nov 8, 2025

Kremlin dismisses speculation that Lavrov has fallen out of favor with Putin

Lavrov, a veteran diplomat known for his robust negotiating style, was absent from a big Kremlin meeting this week that he would typically attend.
A sample of gallium. China produces over 90% of the world's processed rare earths and rare earth magnets.
BUSINESS
Nov 8, 2025

China starts work on easing rare earth export rules but short of Trump hopes

China is working on easing rare earth export rules, but Washington shouldn't hope for a complete rollback of restrictions, industry insiders said.
Caroline Stage, Danish Minister for Digitalization and representatives from the agreement parties attend a news conference about a new political agreement for better protection of children and young people online, in Copenhagen, on Friday.
WORLD
Nov 8, 2025

Denmark set to ban social media platforms for children under 15

Denmark follows the likes of Australia, which last year imposed a ban on social media for children under 16.
Security adviser Grant Bowden evacuates Reuters photographer Raneen Sawafta following an Israeli settlers attack, near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday.
WORLD
Nov 9, 2025

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, journalists in West Bank, witnesses say

The area has been a flash point for settler attacks, which increased across the West Bank after the war in Gaza began two years ago.
Abandoned Japanese-style inns in the Kinugawa hot springs resort in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, in March 2023
JAPAN / Society
Nov 9, 2025

Japan to subsidize demolition of abandoned inns

Many large hotels running since the end of World War II were left to rot in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Rescuers work at the site of a heavily damaged residential building following an air attack in Dnipro, Ukraine. A massive Russian attack hit Ukraine's energy infrastructure, killing two people and prompting power cuts in several regions, Kyiv authorities said on Saturday.
WORLD
Nov 9, 2025

Ukraine scrambles for energy with power generation at 'zero'

Experts said the strikes on energy infrastructure put Ukraine at risk of heating outages ahead of the winter months.
A ship sits under construction in a ship-building yard in Dalian, China, in 2017.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 9, 2025

Unions slam Trump for giving China a pass on shipbuilding

The union reaction came after Trump touted a trade truce between the world’s largest economies, but shows that the deal came at the expense of some blue-collar workers.
The FAA said on Saturday there were air traffic control staffing shortages impacting 42 airport towers and other centers and delaying flights in at least 12 major U.S. cities
WORLD / Politics
Nov 9, 2025

U.S. airlines brace for third day of government-mandated flight cuts

The Federal Aviation Administration instructed airlines to cut 4% of daily flights starting on Friday at 40 major airports because of air traffic control safety concerns.
An attendee at a longevity and anti-aging conference exits a cryotherapy chamber in Shanghai on Sept. 21.
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Nov 9, 2025

In China, the dream of outrunning time

The search for the elixir of life, embraced with gusto in recent years by American tech billionaires like Peter Thiel, has been under way in China for more than two millenniums.
Canceled flights at Chicago O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, on Friday
WORLD / Politics
Nov 10, 2025

U.S. flight delays and cancellations accelerate amid record shutdown

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned air travel would fall to a “trickle” in the run-up to the Thanksgiving holiday.
A Bedouin man who left Sweida governorate as part of an agreement between the Syrian government and Druze militants sleeps in a school that is used as a shelter on July 22.
WORLD
Nov 10, 2025

In Syria’s south, Bedouins uprooted by sectarian clashes see little hope of return

Fear, hostility and grievances on both sides leave little hope of displaced Bedouins returning soon to Sweida, a Druze-majority province.
Residents walk over the debris of a structure destroyed in high winds in Nhon Hai fishing village near Quy Nhon in the aftermath of Typhoon Kalmaegi in Gia Lai province, central Vietnam, on Friday.
ENVIRONMENT
Nov 10, 2025

As Typhoon Kalmaegi wreaks havoc in Southeast Asia, scientists say rising temperatures are to blame

Typhoon Kalmaegi killed at least 188 people across the Philippines and caused untold damage to infrastructure and farmland across the archipelago.
The NFL played its first regular-season game in Berlin on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Nov 10, 2025

NFL makes successful return to Berlin as Colts beat Falcons

Jonathan Taylor secured a 31-25 win with his third touchdown of the game for the Colts, who beat the Falcons in overtime.
The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington
WORLD / Politics
Nov 10, 2025

U.S. shutdown nears end as Senate Democrats agree to funding deal

"It looks like we’re getting closer to the shutdown ending,” U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday evening as he returned to the White House.
Flight timings and cancellations are displayed on the departures board, a month into the ongoing U.S. government shutdown, at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 11, 2025

Trump tells air traffic controllers to return to work as flight cancellations jump

The shutdown, the longest in U.S. history, has forced 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 Transportation Security Administration agents to work without pay.
Tatsuya Imai
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 11, 2025

Right-hander Tatsuya Imai posting for MLB free agency

The 27-year-old Japanese righty has 45 days to agree to a contract with an MLB team.
Rudy Giuliani, seated, shares a laugh with former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a ceremony on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in lower Manhattan on Sept. 11 this year.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 11, 2025

Trump pardons Giuliani, others over push to undo 2020 loss

Trump’s clemency would not affect the remaining state prosecutions, which have moved slowly and, in some cases, hit significant legal roadblocks.
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.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
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.
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.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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
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