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U.S. Marines come ashore from a landing craft utility during training exercises in Arroyo, Puerto Rico, on Oct. 16.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 21, 2025

In Trump's drug war, U.S. officials avoid tackling legal status of prisoners

The U.S. government chose not to use the term "prisoners of war" to describe two survivors of an attack last week by the U.S. military.
People ride their motorbikes during rush hour in Hanoi in August.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 21, 2025

Japan warns Vietnam of job losses as Hanoi motorbike ban hits Honda

In July, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh issued a directive prohibiting gas-powered motorbikes from entering the center of the capital from the middle of 2026.
With the recent sumo jaunt to London being essentially a goodwill exercise, <i>rikishi</i> were far more outgoing and relaxed than normal.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Oct 22, 2025

London exhibition perhaps sumo's most successful trip abroad

Over the course of the tournament, sumo received wall-to-wall coverage in mainstream British media.
Construction at the KK Park complex in Myanmar's eastern Myawaddy township on Sept. 17, seen from across the Thai border
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 23, 2025

Hundreds flee to Thailand after latest raid on Myanmar scam center

A recent investigation revealed construction at several compounds, while Starlink receivers had been installed apparently connecting the hubs to the satellite internet network.
Workers at a coca plantation in Colombia. Experts say the U.S. strikes on narcotics traffickers are having no real impact on Latin America's drug trade.
WORLD / Crime & Legal / EXPLAINER
Oct 24, 2025

Are U.S. strikes hurting Latin America's drug trade?

In short, no.
Paul Ingrassia, U.S. President Donald Trump’s former nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, at a social event on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington in June.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 25, 2025

Violence, racism and Nazi praise: The dark side of U.S. political group chats

Three separate controversies involving leaked text messages from private online group chats have rocked U.S. political circles this month.
“Future Kid Takara,” a series of anime shorts to be aired on NHK Educational TV in November, attempts to educate children about climate change.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / OUR PLANET
Oct 26, 2025

Japan’s youth are apathetic toward the climate crisis. Could anime change that?

“Future Kid Takara,” a new series set to air on NHK Educational TV, aims to empower children and encourage them to take action against climate change.
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet (center) and Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul hold up signed documents during a ceremonial signing of a ceasefire agreement on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 26, 2025

Trump headlines ASEAN summit as Thailand-Cambodia sign ceasefire deal

The U.S. president also oversaw a series of pivotal trade talks on the sidelines of the summit.
Members of hibakusha groups collect signatures for the abolition of nuclear weapons at Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hiroshima
Nov 10, 2025

A year after Hidankyo’s Nobel win, A-bomb survivors pin hopes on youth

While support for nuclear-weapons abolitionist groups is increasing, the average age of hibakusha has exceeded 86.
A player uses eye movement to play a game during the Tokyo Game Show held in the city of Chiba in September.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 27, 2025

Japan's gaming industry moves to improve accessibility

Many in the industry are developing equipment and systems that allow people with disabilities affecting their hands to still play such as by using their feet and eyes.
Amazon has been trimming smaller numbers of jobs over the past two years across multiple divisions.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2025

Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say

The company’s largest cut since 2022 represents nearly 10% of its roughly 350,000 corporate employees.
A Palestinian man reacts next to the body of a man, who according to medics was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2025

Israel strikes Gaza after accusing Hamas of violating U.S.-brokered ceasefire

The development is the latest test of the fragile deal brokered earlier this month.
Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado speaks at a rally in Caracas on July 25.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2025

How Venezuela's Nobel Prize winner built a high-stakes alliance with Trump

Members of Maria Corina Machado’s team helped Washington build the case for an aggressive stance against the Venezuelan government led by President Nicolas Maduro.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend a joint press conference at the White House in Washington on Feb. 13. Modi is campaigning for his party in a crucial state election that kicks off next week, and is said to have been unwilling to risk a meeting with Trump at a regional leaders summit in Malaysia this week that could have damaged his party’s chances at the polls.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 29, 2025

Modi skipped summit to avoid Trump face-off denting poll prospects, sources say

Indian officials were apprehensive the U.S. leader would repeat his claim that he mediated a ceasefire between India and Pakistan after an armed conflict in May, the people said.
Indonesian students at Hiroshima University hold posters of the 17+8 Demands, demanding transparency and action from their homeland’s government.
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Nov 1, 2025

Young Indonesians in Japan find their political voice

From Hiroshima to Tokyo, Indonesian diasporic communities in Japan are expressing their support for compatriots back home and building solidarity online and offline.
OpenAI is considering filing with securities regulators as soon as the second half of 2026, some people familiar with the matter said.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 30, 2025

OpenAI lays groundwork for juggernaut IPO at up to $1 trillion valuation

The company appears eager to tap public markets now that a complex restructuring that reduces its reliance on Microsoft is complete.
People fleeing sectarian violence in Syria cross a river into northern Lebanon near the town of Masoudiyeh on March 12.
WORLD / Society
Oct 30, 2025

Syria’s rocky transition brings new waves of displacement

Between December 2024 and July 2025, more than 430,000 people in Syria were newly displaced, according to the United Nations.
Sudanese Rapid Support Forces reportedly detain a fighter known as Abu Lulu (left) in al-Fashir, in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region in this image released Thursday.
WORLD
Nov 1, 2025

Hundreds said shot or disappeared after Sudanese city falls to paramilitaries

Fighters riding camels rounded up a couple of hundred men near the Sudanese city of al-Fashir over the weekend and brought them to a reservoir, shouting racial slurs before starting to shoot, according to a man who said he was among them.
Syyrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa looks on as he attends a celebration marking Syria's liberation, in Aleppo, Syria, in May.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 1, 2025

No spoils of war: Syria's new ruler lays down the law to loyalists

At stake: the legitimacy leader Ahmed al-Sharaa has gained among many Syrians, and abroad, by ousting dictator Bashar Assad.
Police officers and a dog handler work on the platform at Huntingdon Station in Huntingdon, U.K., on Saturday following a stabbing on a train.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 2, 2025

Police arrest two suspects after U.K. train stabbings seriously injure nine

While Britain has some of the strictest gun controls in the world, rampant knife crime has been branded a 'national crisis.'
Screenwriter Kankuro Kudo will be one of the recipients of Japan's Medal with Purple Ribbon for autumn 2025.
JAPAN
Nov 2, 2025

Screenwriter Kudo and others to receive Japan's medals of honor

Kudu produced many hits, including "Amachan," an NHK drama series that became a social phenomenon when it aired in 2013.
An Afghan man stands near the remains of damaged houses in the aftermath of the September earthquake in Kunar province, Afghanistan. A new, 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif early on Monday, killing at least nine people.
WORLD
Nov 3, 2025

Powerful 6.3 quake in northern Afghanistan kills at nine

The 6.3 magnitude quake struck overnight at a depth of 28 kilometers, with the epicenter near the city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
Bill Gates speaks at a summit on climate and growth at the Bercy Finance Ministry in Paris in December 2023. Gates has recently shifted his stance on climate change, advocating for a focus on adapting to a warmer world rather than pursuing emissions reductions.
COMMENTARY
Nov 2, 2025

Bill Gates is wrong to quiet-quit the climate fight

He says he’s still in it. But his heart no longer appears to be. Worse, he’s giving ammunition to those fighting against further progress.
Believing that human-like AI can think or feel is a growing danger, and we must stop designing systems that encourage that illusion.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2025

Seemingly conscious artificial intelligence is coming soon

The more that AI is built explicitly to resemble people, the farther it will have strayed from its true potential as a source of human empowerment.
Buildings said to be a scam hub in southeast Myanmar as seen from across the border, in Tak, Thailand, on Feb. 21. Cybercrime hubs in Myanmar, Cambodia and elsewhere in Southeast Asia are part of a sprawling criminal enterprise that has stolen tens of billions of dollars from victims worldwide.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 3, 2025

How an accused kingpin built an empire from Cambodia to London

Chen Zhi had cultivated for himself an image of legitimacy. That's now unraveling, after the U.S. and U.K. accused him of running a transnational criminal ring.
Displaced Sudanese who fled El-Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces rest in the camp of Um Yanqur, on the southwestern edge of Tawila, in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on Monday.
WORLD
Nov 4, 2025

Hunger monitor confirms famine in Darfur's al-Fashir and one other city

The finding is the first time the U.N.-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has determined that the cities are in famine.
Zohran Mamdani (center right) with Letitia James, New York's attorney general (second left) and Brad Lander, New York City comptroller (left), campaign across the Brooklyn Bridge on Nov. 3.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 5, 2025

NYC to decide if a socialist will run the capital of capitalism

Who New Yorkers pick to be their mayor could shape Democrats’ 2026 midterm strategy to retake the U.S. House of Representatives.
People from various countries who were working in the KK Park compound in Myanmar and crossed into Thailand via the Moei river, board a vehicle on Oct. 24 as Thai soldiers keep watch.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Nov 5, 2025

Myanmar scam hub sweep triggers fraudster recruitment rush

Online scam hubs have mushroomed across Southeast Asia, draining victims of billions of dollars annually in elaborate romance and crypto cons.
Kirin Holdings employees with disabilities attend a session held in September on the use of IT support tools.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Nov 5, 2025

Japanese firms boost support for workers with disabilities

Most public programs prioritize job placement for those with disabilities, leaving gaps in ongoing workplace support that analysts say is crucial for long-term employment.
Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun introduces the Chinese smartphone maker's new electric SUV YU7 at a launch event in Beijing on May 22.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 5, 2025

The human cost of Xiaomi’s rapid pivot from smartphones to EVs

Staff across China’s tech sector complain they spend all their time at the office, with several saying that overwork is prevalent in many top firms.
Tsunami threat passes following magnitude 6.9 quake off Iwate
A tsunami advisory was issued for Iwate Prefecture on Sunday evening following a strong earthquake. The advisory was later called off, after waves measuring 20 centimeters were recorded in some areas.
Japan to subsidize demolition of abandoned inns
Abandoned Japanese-style inns in the Kinugawa hot springs resort in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, in March 2023
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
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.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.

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