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Attendees walk in front of the China Pavilion during the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil, on Friday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change / ANALYSIS
Nov 16, 2025

China finds bigger role as U.S. sidesteps Brazil climate summit

China’s transformation to a more central player seeking the world’s attention reflects a shift in the fight against global warming.
Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara finished in first place in the pairs free skate during Skate America at Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid, New York, on Saturday.
MORE SPORTS / Figure skating
Nov 16, 2025

Japan's Miura and Kihara capture Skate America pairs gold

The pair's victory sends them to the Grand Prix Final in Nagoya next month and maintains their status as the pair to watch for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in February.
South African cricket legend Jacques Kallis plays a shot during the final day of a cricket test match against India in Johannesburg in December 2013.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 17, 2025

Who is cricket’s Shohei Ohtani?

A better question might be: Does cricket need its own Shohei?
U.S. President Donald Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh on May 13. In his upcoming visit to the White House, the crown prince is seeking security guarantees and wants access to artificial intelligence technology and progress toward a deal on a civilian nuclear program.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 18, 2025

Saudi crown prince to visit U.S. with defense, AI and nuclear energy on agenda

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is seeking security guarantees from the U.S. and wants access to AI technology and progress toward a deal on a civilian nuclear program.
Chandrababu Naidu, chief minister of India’s Andhra Pradesh state, speaks during an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 18, 2025

India’s chief kingmaker sees Google unleashing $1 trillion boom

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu says Google's announcement of a $15 billion investment in data centers in his state is just the beginning.
Akihiko Tanaka, president of the Japan International Cooperation Agency, speaks at a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers program, held in Tokyo on Thursday.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Nov 18, 2025

Japan's overseas volunteer effort faces personnel shortage as it marks 60th year

Grassroots human exchanges have fostered multilayered relations with other countries, but private sector alternatives and public perceptions are creating recruitment headwinds.
Empty seats of the United States delegation during the High-Level Segment (HLS) at the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belem, Brazil, on Monday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 18, 2025

COP30 delegates dig into toughest issues as climate talks enter final week

China, India and other developing nations are flexing more muscle, with EU influence hobbled and the U.S. altogether absent.
A truck transports timber across an Amazonian field during a Greenpeace flyover amid the U.N. Climate Change Conference, near Cachoeira do Piria, state of Para, Brazil, on Nov. 13.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 18, 2025

With more heat and storms, can COP30 boost front-line resilience?

The question of how to make vulnerable communities more resilient in a hotter world is a key debate in the vast compound hosting the COP30 talks.
Oscar Piastri has won Australian sport's highest honor, the Don Award.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Nov 18, 2025

Oscar Piastri wins Australia's top sports honor

The 24-year has ignited national pride as he bids to become Australia's third Formula One world champion after Jack Brabham and Alan Jones.

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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