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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.
Japan Airlines Managing Executive Officer Yukio Nakagawa (center) and others apologize after one of the airline's pilots was found to have been drinking alcohol, during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 4.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2025

JAL to punish president and 36 others over pilot drinking scandal

A JAL pilot consumed alcohol the day before work, resulting in delays of up to 18½ hours for three flights.
Katie Moon competes in the women's pole vault final during the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Wednesday. The American won the gold medal.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 17, 2025

Katie Moon beats fellow American Sandi Morris for gold in pole vault final in Tokyo

Moon cleared 4.90 meters to claim gold.
A U.S. flag flies at half mast in front of the White House on Sept. 11 in honor of Charlie Kirk, a right-wing activist who was fatally shot the previous day at an event at a university in Orem, Utah. The tragedy comes as the Trump administration shutters terrorism-prevention programs despite rising extremist violence.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 18, 2025

Why is Trump killing programs designed to prevent terrorism?

Political violence is rising worldwide while the Trump administration dismantles prevention programs, weakening U.S. security and global counterterrorism efforts.
Bills quarterback Josh Allen executes a shovel pass for a touchdown during Buffalo's win over the Dolphins on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Sep 19, 2025

Josh Allen tosses three TDs as Bills take charge late to beat Dolphins

Allen completed 22 of 28 attempts for 213 yards, and his go-ahead strike to Khalil Shakir was the 200th regular-season TD pass of his career.
Japan's 4x100-meter relay team (from left, Yuki Koike, Hiroki Yanagita, Yoshihide Kiryu and Towa Uzawa celebrate after qualifying for the final at the world championships at National Stadium on Saturday night.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 20, 2025

Japan qualifies for men's 4x100 relay final at world championships

Japan finished in a time of 38.07 seconds.
A displaced Palestinian boy carries a tent on his head as he moves south in the central Gaza Strip on Saturday.
WORLD
Sep 21, 2025

'Shocked and devastated': Gaza City assault leaves Palestinians traumatized

Israel has pummeled Gaza City with air strikes and tank fire in its bid to seize what it describes as one of Hamas' last strongholds.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to reporters alongside President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington on Sept. 15.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 21, 2025

Trump publicly urges U.S. Justice Department to charge his enemies

The U.S. president is demanding action against two Democrats who have been accused by Trump ally of mortgage fraud.
Belgian rider Remco Evenepoel competes in the men's Elite Individual Time Trial cycling event during the UCI 2025 Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Cycling
Sep 23, 2025

Evenepoel completes time-trial triple as Pogacar left trailing

Pogacar, who celebrated his 27th birthday on Sunday, had set out to do the time trial and road race double at the world championship, but finished fourth.
An activist holds a banner as South Korean workers who were detained in a huge immigration raid in the U.S. arrive at the Incheon International Airport in South Korea on Sept.12.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 24, 2025

‘America is not a safe place to work’: South Koreans describe Georgia raid

Some of the workers arrested this month at a Hyundai-LG factory said that although they had entered the U.S. under murky circumstances, they always planned to return home.
Masanori Aoki has been indicted on charges of fatally stabbing two local women and killing two police officers with a knife and a hunting gun in Nakano, Nagano Prefecture, in May 2023.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2025

Death penalty sought for man over quadruple murder in Nagano

Masanori Aoki has been indicted on charges of fatally stabbing two local women and killing two police officers with a knife and a hunting gun.
The Dodgers' Roki Sasaki pitches against the Diamondbacks in Phoenix on Wednesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 25, 2025

Dodgers activate pitcher Roki Sasaki with eye on stabilizing bullpen

The activation of Sasaki comes as Los Angeles seeks late-inning stability before October.
A robotic vehicle assembly line in Hefei, China. China is making and installing factory robots at a far greater pace than any other country.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 26, 2025

China has more robots working for it than the rest of the world combined

Chinese manufacturers have also gotten better at making factory robots, thanks to a government push.
Oracle is among some of the firms expected to thrive in an artificial intelligence future.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 29, 2025

Magnificent Seven is passe, but what can take its place?

Wall Street’s most powerful collection of stocks is missing some of the firms that are also expected to thrive in an artificial intelligence future.
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi at a debate at the Japan National Press Club with other candidates for the Liberal Democratic Party presidency on Sept. 24
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 29, 2025

Takaichi moots U.S. tariff deal do-over when asked about $550 billion pledge

The woman who could become Japan’s next prime minister raises questions about the agreement.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi touts his own "experience and achievement" during the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election candidate debate at Nihon Kisha Club in Tokyo on September 24.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 29, 2025

Japan’s ‘Mr. 119’ might be facing his biggest challenge yet

Time is running out for Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi to convince colleagues in the Liberal Democratic Party that he is best suited to lead them.
England's Sarah Bern holds the Women's World Cup trophy as she celebrates with teammates after winning the final in London on Saturday. England's women's rugby team extended its unbeaten run to 33 matches with the win.
MORE SPORTS / Rugby
Sep 30, 2025

World Rugby unfazed over England's dominance of women's game

England has not lost since a 34-31 defeat by New Zealand in the COVID-delayed 2022 World Cup final in Auckland.
Cubs right fielder Seiya Suzuki rounds the bases after hitting a solo home run against the Cardinals in Chicago on Sunday.
BASEBALL
Sep 30, 2025

Padres visit Cubs and red-hot Seiya Suzuki for wild-card opener

Suzuki followed up a seven-week homerless drought by going deep five times over the Chicago Cubs' final four games of the regular season.
A general view of Kabul on Tuesday following a nation-wide telecom outage
WORLD
Oct 1, 2025

'I couldn't reach them': Afghans abroad despair at blackout

The internet blackout spells worse conditions for those living in one of the world's poorest countries after having already endured decades of conflict.
Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi (right) reacts as former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during the Liberal Democratic Party Presidential Election Candidate Debate at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, on Sept. 24. Koizumi and Takaichi remain head-to-head in the race, media polls show.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 1, 2025

Koizumi and Takaichi continue to lead in LDP presidential race, polls show

With Koizumi leading in one poll, and Takaichi leading in another, the winner of the election on Saturday is anyone’s guess.
The Bank of Japan is likely to raise rates by the end of this year or early next year.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 1, 2025

Japan's tankan survey suggests rate increase sooner rather than later

Corporate sentiment improved as tariff uncertainty lessened following an agreement with the U.S.
McLaren's Oscar Piastri leaves the race during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku on Sept. 21.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 3, 2025

F1 leader Oscar Piastri vows to learn from 'tough lessons' in Baku

The Australian put his McLaren into the barriers twice at the Baku circuit, once in practice and then again on the first lap of the race.
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, holds a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 4, 2025

Takaichi poised to become Japan's first female PM after winning LDP poll

Takaichi earned 185 votes against Koizumi’s 156 in a runoff after none of the five candidates in the party leadership race secured a majority in the first round of voting.
Trains decorated to resemble the 103 (left) and 205 series of trains that formerly ran on the Yamanote Line, in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2025

Retro-wrapped trains mark 100th anniversary of Tokyo's Yamanote Line

The two commemorative trains, featuring designs from the 103 and 205 series trains, are scheduled to run until Nov. 3.
A trade fair for video games in Paris in 2023. The games industry in general has struggled in recent years, with players spending more time on existing titles and not taking as many chances on new ones.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 5, 2025

Xbox’s hike on Game Pass shows cost of lost Call of Duty sales

The price hike and other changes are a sign that Xbox’s big streaming push is still not generating the revenue it would like eight years after launch.
Former quarterback Mark Sanchez spent eight seasons in the NFL.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Oct 5, 2025

Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez arrested in hospital after being stabbed

Sanchez was in Indianapolis to call Sunday's game between the host Colts and Las Vegas Raiders at Lucas Oil Stadium.
Mickael Barzalona rides Daryz (front) to victory in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Horse Racing
Oct 6, 2025

Daryz wins emotional and thrilling Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

Japan will once again have to bide its time for its first winner after over 50 years of trying.
Remittance inflows to low-income countries have boosted welfare, reduced poverty and strengthened economic resilience, but the Trump administration’s 1% tax on the transactions threatens to undermine these critical benefits.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2025

Trump’s beggar-the-poor remittance tax

America is now the world’s top remittance-sending country, with at least 134 recipient countries in 2021, the most recent year with reliable bilateral data.
A crime scene technician prepares to document evidence at the site of a shooting in West Baltimore in May 2015. U.S. cities are seeing murder rates fall sharply from post-2020 highs thanks to local violence-reduction efforts and pandemic-era investments.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2025

What’s behind the great American murder decline?

Homicides are plummeting in many places. The explanation may be the sheer volume of different efforts to reduce violence.
The Blue Jays' Bo Bichette (left) Vladimir Guerrero Jr. celebrate in the clubhouse after helping the team defeat the Yankees in  Game 4 of the ALDS.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 9, 2025

Blue Jays knock out Yankees to advance to first ALCS since 2016

Toronto won the-best-of-five AL Division Series 3-1 to advance to the American League Championship Series for the first time since 2016.

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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