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A man identified by Jennifer Vasquez Sura as her husband, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, in custody at a notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 5, 2025

Judge orders return of wrongly deported Maryland man to U.S. from El Salvador

The U.S. has already acknowledged Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a Salvadoran migrant who lived in the U.S legally with a work permit — was deported in error.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Apr 5, 2025

Nowhere to hide: Trump tariffs leave trading partners cornered

Hit by 10% to 50% tariffs on their exports, most countries lack the firepower to hit back or the political will to slug it out.
Anti-Yoon protesters hold up placards reading "Let's build a democratic government!" during a rally in Seoul on Friday after South Korea's Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 5, 2025

Yoon's ouster prompts Japanese concerns about ties with South Korea

Japan is worried that Yoon's removal from power will undo the improvements in bilateral relations made under his administration.
Taiwanese National Security Council Secretary-General Joseph Wu (left), President Lai Ching-te (center) and Defense Minister Wellington Koo pose for photos with soldiers as they visit the troops during the Rapid Response Exercise at the Songshan military airbase in Taipei on March 21.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 5, 2025

Taiwan's top security official visits U.S. for talks

The visit marked Donald Trump's first use of the so-called special channel since returning to the White House on Jan. 20.
The Washington Capitals' Alex Ovechkin holds up the puck representing his 894th career goal in the locker room after the game against the Chicago Blackhawks at Capital One Arena. Ovechkin scored the 893rd and 894th goals of his career, tying Wayne Gretzky for most all-time goals in the NHL.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Apr 5, 2025

Ovechkin scores 894th career goal to tie Gretzky's all-time record

Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin scored his 894th career NHL goal on Friday to tie the once-thought-unbreakable record set by Hall of Famer Wayne Gretzky.
A screenshot taken from a video published by the Palestinian Red Crescent and obtained from cellphone of a dead paramedic shows the last moments during the incident in which aid workers were killed in Israeli fire, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, in the southern Gaza Strip on March 23.
WORLD
Apr 6, 2025

Video shows last minutes before Gaza aid workers' deaths, Red Crescent says

The aid worker was among 15 humanitarian personnel killed on March 23 in an attack by Israeli forces, according to the United Nations and the Palestinian Red Crescent.
Capitals winger Alex Ovechkin during the third period of Washington's game against Chicago on Friday. Ovechkin tied Wayne Gretzky's all-time goal record with his 894th career marker.
MORE SPORTS / Ice Hockey
Apr 6, 2025

Ice legends: Alex Ovechkin and Wayne Gretzky had different paths to 894

Gretzky became the NHL's all-time goals leader while also serving as the league's premier playmaker, while Ovechkin has been known for his goal scoring since his rookie year.
Protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, rally to mark the annual al-Quds Day on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Sanaa, Yemen, on March 28.
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Apr 6, 2025

U.S. progress against resilient Houthi militants remains murky

Trump's administration has offered limited evidence of weapons deployed and targets hit to back up his assertion.
U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order during a tariff announcement in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Wednesday. Trump's tariff policies are the centerpiece of his effort to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. and reshape a world trade system he has long decried as unfair.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Apr 6, 2025

Trump promised a manufacturing boom. Industries are not so sure.

Some question the tariffs' underlying logic, saying that supply chain issues, high costs and other obstacles stand may in the way.
Some 100 people on Saturday mourned those who died in a mass suicide at the Chibichiri Gama cave in the village of Yomitan in Okinawa Prefecture 80 years ago in the final stages of World War II.
JAPAN
Apr 6, 2025

Victims of WWII mass suicide mourned in Okinawa

The mass suicide occurred in April 1945 during the Battle of Okinawa, the largest ground battle in Japan during the war.
U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One as he departs for Washington, at Palm Beach International Airport in Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 7, 2025

Trump team rejects market fears, projecting defiance on tariffs

U.S. President Donald Trump’s top economic officials dismissed investors’ fears of inflation and recession, insisting a boom is on the horizon.
Palestinians mourn medics who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 31.
WORLD
Apr 7, 2025

Israeli military changes initial account of Gaza aid worker killings

Fifteen paramedics and emergency responders were shot dead on March 23 and buried in a shallow grave where their bodies were found a week later.
The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on March 22. Top lawyers for both President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden have separately urged the U.S. Supreme Court to limit the authority of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions that can stop a government policy in its tracks.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 7, 2025

As judges stymie Trump with injunctions, pressure builds on U.S. Supreme Court

The power of one judge to issue a nationwide injunction has become pivotal in the question of whether the U.S. president can quickly implement his agenda.
The Leica museum in Wetzlar, western Germany, on March 18. The Leica camera turns 100 this year.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 7, 2025

Snappy birthday: Germany's Leica camera turns 100

The Leica 1 camera made its debut at the Leipzig Spring Fair in 1925.
A Chinese military unit fires a land-based rocket during military exercises near Taiwan last week.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 7, 2025

G7 condemns 'provocative' Chinese military drills around Taiwan

Group of Seven foreign minsters expressed “deep concern” over the “provocative” and “destabilizing” drills.
Former Prime Minister Taro Aso has the most assets among Lower House members, at ¥601.53 million ($4.1 million), according to a Jiji Press tally of asset reports filed after the general election in October last year.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 7, 2025

Lower House members' assets hit record low: Jiji

The decrease reflects the retirement or electoral defeat of major asset holders in last year's general election, and the debut of new lawmakers.
Beards, once symbols of rebellion and counterculture, are making a comeback among elites, reflecting shifting cultural norms even as biases persist in professional settings.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 7, 2025

What does your beard say about you?

During the 19th century, the European monarchies associated beards with dangerous radicals. So did the dangerous radicals.
A vehicle carries the coffin of a commander from Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah armed group during a funeral in Baghdad on Sept. 22, 2024.
WORLD
Apr 7, 2025

Iran-backed militias in Iraq ready to disarm to avert Trump wrath

The move to defuse tensions follows repeated warnings issued privately by U.S. officials to the Iraqi government since Trump took power in January.
A Fuchu expressway entrance in western Tokyo is closed Sunday due to a glitch in the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) system.
JAPAN
Apr 7, 2025

Tollbooths now operational after ETC malfunction causes mass confusion

It was the first time such a large-scale problem involving the ETC system has occurred since Japanese expressways were privatized in 2005.
The Unification Church's Tokyo headquarters in Shibuya Ward. The group is appealing a district court order stripping it of its religious corporation status.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 7, 2025

Unification Church appeals stripping of religious corporation status

The group argued that the district court order was decided as a foregone conclusion and ignored law and the facts.
Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington on Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 8, 2025

Trump honors 'legendary' Dodgers at White House reception

Trump highlighted the achievements of several players, notably Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani.
Newcastle United midfielder Jacob Murphy celebrates on the back of defender Fabian Schar, whose long-range shot came back off the woodwork to enable Murphy to score against Leicester City in Leicester on Monday.
SOCCER
Apr 8, 2025

Newcastle steps up Champions League chase as Leicester slump again

Eddie Howe's men are up to fifth in the table, level on points with fourth-placed Chelsea but with a game in hand.
A person lays flowers for the crew members of the Imperial Japanese Navy's battleship Yamato who died in its sinking 80 years ago, during a memorial service held in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Monday.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2025

Crew members of sunken battleship Yamato remembered on 80th anniversary

The ship sank off Cape Bonomisaki on Kagoshima's Satsuma Peninsula at 2:23 p.m. on April 7, 1945, with only 276 of the 3,332 crew members surviving.
A television station broadcasts U.S. President Donald Trump speaking during a Rose Garden event, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Apr 8, 2025

Frustrated world leaders wonder if Trump even wants a deal

U.S. President Donald Trump has set a high bar, telling reporters that any agreements would need to eliminate bilateral trade deficits.
Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa delivers a speech in Damascus on March 29.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2025

Israel hit Syrian bases scoped by Turkey, hinting at regional showdown

The bombardment signals the risks of a deepening rift between two powerful regional militaries over Syria.
Yamaguchi-gumi executives (center and right) leave the Hyogo Prefectural Police headquarters in Kobe after submitting a pledge to end turf battles on Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 8, 2025

Yamaguchi-gumi pledges end to yakuza war

The crime syndicate has been involved in turf battles with the rival Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, formed by more than a dozen gangs that splintered from it, since 2015.
Workers harvest grapes of Merlot in Contessa Entellina, southwest of Sicily, in 2024. Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, Europe's climate monitor said on Tuesday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Apr 8, 2025

Global temperatures at near-historic highs in March, says EU monitor

In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, driving rainfall extremes across a continent warming faster than any other.
The Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on March 19
WORLD / Politics
Apr 8, 2025

Harvard plans to borrow $750 million amid federal funding threats

Trump has threatened to slash federal funding for U.S. universities that his administration says have tolerated antisemitism on their campuses.
Emperor Naruhito (left) and Empress Masako during the spring garden party at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo on April 23, 2024. The imperial couple are hosting this year's party on April 22 in which invitees include manga artist Tetsuya Chiba.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2025

Manga artist Tetsuya Chiba among invitees to imperial party

Some 1,800 people are invited to the spring party that Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will host at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo on April 22.
Japan is facing challenges with Donald Trump's new tariffs and is considering increased purchases of U.S. goods, negotiating tariff reductions and expanding auto production in the U.S. to reduce the trade deficit and avoid further economic tension.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 8, 2025

What is Japan's play on Trump's tariffs?

Japan had expected some consideration for being the largest source of foreign direct investment in the U.S. from 2019 to 2024, with total investment of around $860 billion.
A beloved Tokyo penguin’s end presages Suica’s shift to payments giant
JR East is retiring the beloved Suica penguin as part of a rebrand to transform the contactless payment platform, used for both transit and retail, into a mobile fintech powerhouse.
Fears rise of rupture in Japan-China ties in wake of Taiwan remarks
Two Chinese tourists wearing kimonos take a selfie as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
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.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Ashfall warning issued in southern Japan as volcano erupts
View of Sakurajima from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture
Japan uses series against South Korea to prep for World Baseball Classic title defense
Japan's Ryuhei Sotani pitches against South Korea at Tokyo Dome on Saturday night.
Good fortune, wrapped in fried tofu
Golden "age-fukuburo," a culinary take on Japan's new year "lucky bags," can be served on their own.
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.
The challenges awaiting Japan’s new finance minister
Finance minister Satsuki Katayama answers questions from reporters in a group interview on Oct. 24.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.

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