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The Dalai Lama is served food during his 90th birthday celebration at the Tsuglagkhang, also known as the Dalai Lama Temple complex, in the northern town of Dharamshala, India, on July 6.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 14, 2025

China says Dalai Lama succession issue a 'thorn' in relations with India

The comments came as India's foreign minister prepares to visit China for the first time since deadly border clashes in 2020.
A police officer stands in front of the wreckage of an Air India aircraft, bound for London's Gatwick Airport, which crashed during take-off from an airport in Ahmedabad, India, on June 12.
WORLD
Jul 14, 2025

Amid Air India probe, U.S. FAA and Boeing say fuel switch locks are safe

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration's notification came after a preliminary report into Air India's Boeing 787-8 crash raised questions over engine fuel cutoff switches.
The recent massive pride parade in Hungary shows that even under authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, popular resistance for liberal democracy persists — but the region’s deeper political stalemate endures.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2025

Is democracy stalemated?

Yet neither triumphalism nor fatalism captures the real dynamic. A more measured analysis shows that history’s arc is not bending at all — it is stuck.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on April 7. Trump’s unexpected strike on Iran shows how Israel’s influence overcame his reluctance for foreign wars.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 14, 2025

Trump’s Iran attack shows what it takes to win his military support

How did Israel convince Trump? Put simply, why did Trump, unlike previous presidents who considered it but held back, launch a direct strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities?
Lawrence Lau arrives at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts building, ahead of hearing appeals from 13 jailed pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 14, 2025

Twelve Hong Kong activists appeal convictions in landmark '47 democrats' case

The court found 45 of defendants guilty of organizing an unofficial primary election in in 2020 after massive pro-democracy protests brought the city to a standstill.
Kunashiri, one of the four islands seized by Russia in the last days of World War II, is visible from the Shiretoko Peninsula in northeastern Hokkaido.
JAPAN / Regional Voices: Hokkaido
Jul 22, 2025

Ex-residents of Russian-controlled islands off Hokkaido want grave-site visits resumed

Now in their advanced years, the former residents want the visits to be restored for them to honor their ancestors whose grave sites are located on the four islands.
A soldier operates from an artillery position in the Sumy region of Ukraine on June 19.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 15, 2025

Trump threatens 100% Russia tariffs and vows arms for Ukraine

The threats echo punishment spelled out in a bipartisan bill in Congress that would impose 500% tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil and gas.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin attend a Group of 20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires in November 2018.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 15, 2025

Trump sours on Putin, but bromance may not be over

With his announcement Monday of new arms for Ukraine via Europe and tariff threats on Russia, Trump's bromance with Putin has hit a new low — but it may not have run its course.
Smoke billows following Israeli strikes in the distance as members of Syria's security forces man rocket launchers in an area between Mazraa and Walga near the predominantly Druze city of Suwayda on Monday.
WORLD
Jul 15, 2025

Israel strikes Syria after clashes involving Druze minority

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz described the strikes as a "clear warning” to the Syrian regime that Israel would not allow the Druze to be harmed.
The U.S. and Chinese flags are seen on the day of a bilateral meeting between the U.S. and China in Geneva on May 11.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 15, 2025

China steps in as U.S. pulls back from diplomacy, report says

The Democrats' 91-page report listed ways, from broadcasting to health programs and development efforts, that committee researchers said China is expanding its influence.
People demonstrate outside the Ministry of Health to demand the right to a safe and free abortion as Non Una di Meno (Not One Less) movement and feminist collectives take part in a protest to mark the International Safe Abortion Day, in Rome on Sept. 28, 2024.
WORLD / Society
Jul 15, 2025

Italy's abortion taboos challenged by new law in Sicily

More than 80% of gynecologists in Sicily refuse to perform abortions for moral or religious reasons, though the procedure has been a legal right for women in Italy since 1978.
An aerial view from north of the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant. Opposition parties are divided over whether Japan should utilize nuclear power while the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a proponent of it, has avoided explicitly mentioning its stance in its campaign pledges.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 15, 2025

Energy policy debate falls dormant in Upper House election despite growing risk

Rising tensions in the Middle East have fueled concerns the Strait of Hormuz may be closed, dealing a blow to Japan's energy security.
Kioxia is rated BB+, one step below investment grade, by both S&P and Fitch.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 15, 2025

Chipmaker Kioxia plans debut bond abroad, joining Japan peers

Kioxia plans to raise as much as $3 billion via a dollar bond sale that would be its first corporate debt issuance, in the latest sign of investor appetite abroad.
Norway defender Thea Bjelde and Switzerland midfielder fight for the ball during a UEFA Women's Euro 2025 Group A match in Basel, Switzerland, on July 2.
SOCCER
Jul 15, 2025

Tactical growth on show as Women's Euros enters knockout stage

Norway midfield linchpin Vilde Boe Risa says tactics in the women's game have become much more advanced in recent years.
Workers on the production line of a toy factory in Shenzhen, China
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 15, 2025

China’s economy expands 5.2% as exports propel growth

The world’s second-largest economy has powered ahead despite a 24% slump in shipments to the U.S. in the second quarter.
The working conditions cited by prosecutors shed light on the differences in wealth between people purchasing luxury goods and many of those making them.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 15, 2025

LVMH’s Loro Piana faces court oversight in Italy labor probe

In some factories, working hours mostly exceeded the 8-hour legal standard, employees slept on shop floors and were paid a fraction of Italy’s legal minimum, prosecutors said.
The fuel switches on Boeing's planes have come under scrutiny following last month's crash of an Air India jet, which killed 260 people.
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2025

Some airlines checking Boeing fuel switches after Air India crash

The locks have come under scrutiny following the crash of an Air India jet, with a preliminary report finding the switches had flipped from run position to cutoff after takeoff.
The Sanseito party, led by Sohei Kamiya, is surging in the polls with anti-immigration talk, but its rise is likely just a short-lived protest vote rather than the start of lasting right-wing populism.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 15, 2025

Japan’s right-wing fringe is no MAGA or reform movement

The Sanseito party is surging in polls with anti-immigration talk, but its rise is likely just a short-lived protest vote rather than the start of lasting right-wing populism.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a Victory Day parade in Moscow in May. Despite U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of tariffs, Putin believes Russia's economy and its military are strong enough to weather any new Western measures over the war in Ukraine.
WORLD / FOCUS
Jul 15, 2025

Putin, unfazed by Trump, will fight on and could take more of Ukraine

Three Russian sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking said the Russian leader will not stop the war under pressure from the West.
The IPC Container Terminal at Tanjung Priok Port in Jakarta in April last year
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 16, 2025

Trump says Indonesia goods to face 19% tariff under new pact

Indonesia also agreed to purchase $15 billion in U.S. energy, $4.5 billion worth of agricultural products and 50 Boeing jets, many of them 777’s.
Shizuku Urata, a fixed-net fishery worker in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2025

Women in Japan's fishery sector on the rise

Efforts to attract women into the industry reflect the struggles of many fishery businesses in finding young workers who can continue operations in the future.
Scottie Scheffler speaks during a news conference in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday ahead of the British Open.
MORE SPORTS / Golf
Jul 16, 2025

'What's the point?' Scheffler says in candid talk ahead of British Open

When asked how long he celebrates his victories, an introspective Scheffler veered off into questioning what was even the point of being the best golfer in the world.
Truist Park in Atlanta on Tuesday ahead of the start of the MLB All-Star Game.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 16, 2025

Tony Clark blasts MLB salary cap idea as 'collusion' during All-Star break

The current MLB collective bargaining agreement is set to expire on Dec. 1, 2026, and a deal will need to be reached by then to avoid a lockout.
Attorney General Pam Bondi participates in a Cabinet meeting sy the White House in Washington or July 8.
WORLD / Politics / EXPLAINER
Jul 16, 2025

'Epstein files' explained: Why Trump is under pressure

U.S. President Donald Trump has struggled to quell his supporters' obsessions with the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which continues to generate outrage.
A recent case involving teachers sharing voyeuristic images of schoolgirls has sparked national outrage.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Jul 16, 2025

Teachers sharing illicit student images raises question of systemic failure

Japan’s sluggish policy response and deep-rooted cultural resistance to the concept of consent sets it apart from other countries.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping attends a meeting during the the Shanghai Cooperation Organization forum in Beijing on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 16, 2025

China’s growth momentum offers Xi rare window to fight deflation

Gross domestic product beat expectations to grow 5.2% between April and June, bringing the official 5% expansion goal for the year within reach.
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou during a news conference to present a major public finance recovery plan in Paris on Tuesday
WORLD / Politics
Jul 16, 2025

France's PM wants to scrap two public holidays to help fix government finances

"Everyone will have to contribute to the effort," Francois Bayrou said in a two-hour news conference, warning that public debt was a "mortal danger" for France.
Researchers at the University of Osaka Hospital last year became the first in Japan to conduct surgeries of reducing the number of fetuses in multiple pregnancy as part of clinical research.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jul 16, 2025

Researchers in Japan conduct multifetal pregnancy reduction surgeries

It is the first time that the procedure has been carried out as clinical research in Japan.
People walk along a promenade in Shanghai on July 10.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 16, 2025

Beneath China's resilient economy, a life of pay cuts and side hustles

China's economy recently posted robust growth, showing its export-heavy model has so far withstood U.S. tariffs. But beneath the headline resilience, cracks are widening.
Climate change affecting food sources and hibernation times, along with depopulation caused by an aging society, are causing bears to venture into towns more frequently, scientists say.
MORE SPORTS
Jul 16, 2025

Bear stops play again at Japan golf event

The bear was spotted in the morning near the first tee at the Meiji Yasuda Ladies tournament at Sendai Classic Golf Club, a stop on the JLPGA Tour.

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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