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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at the White House on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 21, 2025

Trump shapes immigration gilded age with $100,000 H-1B fee

The U.S. president also unveiled a "Gold Card” visa program — where for the price of $1 million, individuals could get U.S. residency.
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.
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden celebrates with fans after winning the women's 200-meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Friday.
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 21, 2025

How the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo delivered on the fan experience

After the Olympics, the fan experience at World Athletics Championships was arguably more important than any other event. So how did National Stadium fare with its big do-over?
Study by Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and House Foods Group has found that the sweet-salty combination dulls the sense of avoiding high salt concentrations and can lead to greater salt intake.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Sep 21, 2025

Sweetness dulls salt aversion and may lead to excessive intake, study shows

The tendency is more pronounced among people with chronic kidney disease, underscoring the need for salt reduction that takes the effect of sweetness into account.
Workers in protective suits stand outside Leishenshan Hospital, a makeshift medical facility for treating patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in April 2020
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 21, 2025

Chinese COVID-19 whistleblower handed four more years in jail, group says

Zhang Zhan, 42, was sentenced on a charge of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" in China.
Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi arrives for a news conference in Tokyo on Saturday to talk about entering the ruling Liberal Democratic Party leadership race.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 21, 2025

LDP presidential race to officially start on Monday

It will be the first LDP presidential election since the party and its coalition partner, Komeito, lost their combined majority in both chambers of the country's parliament.
Media mogul Lachlan Murdoch (L) and his wife Sarah at the White House in 2019. U.S. President Donald Trump says that Murdoch and business leaders Larry Ellison and Michael Dell will be involved in an upcoming deal to keep TikTok operating in the U.S.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 22, 2025

Lachlan Murdoch, Michael Dell, Ellison involved in TikTok deal, Trump says

The proposed investors would give Trump influence over an app that helps shape public discourse on politics and culture with its 170 million U.S. users.
A woman holds a sign during a protest outside Disneyland after Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show was suspended for remarks he made regarding Charlie Kirk's assassination, in Anaheim, California, on Friday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 22, 2025

Disney’s Kimmel suspension shows Trump’s increasing grip over media

The suspension has intensified free-speech fears in the U.S. as FCC chair Brendan Carr threatened to revoke broadcast licenses from stations that carry what he called "garbage."
Osamu Dazai struggled with depression and addiction, themes that were also central to his writing.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 22, 2025

Why Japan’s most melancholic writer speaks to today’s youth

Osamu Dazai's works are enjoying a new boom of retranslations and readers 80 years after they were first published.
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (right) meets with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Riyadh on Sept. 17. The two leaders signed a surprise mutual defense treaty.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

Pakistan extends 'nuclear umbrella' to Saudi Arabia

The two countries recently signed a surprise mutual defense treaty.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang in this photo released Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 22, 2025

North Korea’s Kim open to talks with Trump, as South’s Lee backs nuke freeze

Kim said talks could reopen if the U.S. drops its denuclearization demand, remarks that came as South Korea's leader said he'd back a deal to freeze Pyongyang's nuke program.
Marriage is rapidly declining in South Korea as rising education and career aspirations collide with traditional gender norms.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2025

South Korea’s baby bust threatens its demographic future

At 1.2 births per woman, Japan is still reproducing faster than South Korea, where the birth rate has dropped to just 0.75 — the lowest in the world.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2025

Vladimir Putin’s ‘negotiations’ are a trap

Putin wants to destroy Ukraine as a state and Ukrainian as a national identity.
Japan's Mebuki Suzuki in action with Uganda's Oscar Chelimo in the men's 10,000 meter final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sept. 14
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Sep 22, 2025

The Japanese face and body patches that have had the world wondering

Some athletes at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo swear by the products.
Women in the U.K. still tend to handle the weekly shop, meaning they’re the first to feel the pinch from higher grocery, water and transport bills — the main drivers pushing inflation to its highest since early 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

Women turn away from Labour as they lose faith in economy

Already, Britain's government has lost nearly half of the female voters who helped it win power just a year ago, according a political strategy and communications consultancy.
U.S. President Donald Trump with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk and the new CEO of Turning Point USA, onstage during the memorial for her late husband at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

At Charlie Kirk memorial, Trump rallies MAGA against political opponents

U.S. President Donald Trump's speech at the event was the most openly divisive, repeatedly attacking the "radical left" and leaning into campaign-style grievances.
Yohei Sasakawa, honorary chair of Nippon Foundation, attends a news conference at at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Moscow on Sunday.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2025

Nippon Foundation's Sasakawa meets head of Russian Orthodox Church

The Russian church is seeking dialogue with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the honorary chair of the foundation says.
(Clockwise from top left) Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi; former foreign minister Toshimitsu Motegi; Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Shinjiro Koizumi; former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi; and former minister of state for economic security Sanae Takaichi
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 22, 2025

Who’s who in the LDP presidential race?

Here is a brief outline of the backgrounds and policies of the five candidates vying to lead the ruling party, and ultimately, the country.
Tylenol for sale at a pharmacy in New York on Sept. 5
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

Trump administration to link Tylenol to autism, report says

Officials plan to warn pregnant women against using the medication, one of the world’s most common, over-the-counter pain relievers, unless they have a fever.
Tom Homan, U.S. President Donald Trump’s border czar, outside the White House in Washington on Sept. 9. Sources say Homan accepted a $50,000 bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent last year in a case that has since been closed.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

Trump aide Homan accepted $50,000 in bribery sting operation, sources say

The case was closed by FBI Director Kash Patel over the summer and Homan faces no criminal charges.
Activists hold a two-day protest vigil in solidarity with the victims in Gaza outside the Auberge de Castille, the office of Malta Prime Minister Robert Abela after he announced that Malta will formally recognize the State of Palestine in the coming days, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Valletta, Malta, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 22, 2025

What would wider recognition of Palestine mean for Palestinians and Israel?

Britain, Canada and Australia all recognized a Palestinian state on Sunday, with other countries expected to follow suit this week at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, former Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, former Internal Affairs Minister Sanae Takaichi and Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi pose after delivering speeches at the kickoff of campaigning for the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election in Tokyo on Monday. The five lawmakers are running to succeed outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as LDP president.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 22, 2025

LDP race commences with mix of youth and experience

Whoever wins faces the task of rebuilding public trust in the 70-year-old LDP at a time of low public approval ratings as smaller opposition parties resonate with many voters.
A recruiter speaks with an MBA student at a college recruitment event at GL Bajaj Institute of Technology & Management in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India in 2023.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 22, 2025

Trump’s $100,000 visa targets a $280 billion India success story

The move to curtail H-1B visas threatens to rewrite the rules for a decades-old model that underpins much of the technology behind the world’s largest corporations.
Television host Jimmy Kimmel attends the Hollywood Walk of Fame star unveiling ceremony for British radio personality Richard Blade, in Hollywood, California, in June last year.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2025

Disney says Kimmel will return to the air Tuesday, six days after suspension

This marked the highest-profile move from the private sector to challenge a string of efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump to crack down on his perceived media critics.
French President Emmanuel Macron (center) arrives for a United Nations Summit on Palestinian statehood at U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2025

World leaders rally behind Palestinian statehood at U.N., defying U.S. and Israel

The United States has warned of possible consequences for those who take measures against Israel, including France as host of the summit.
The TikTok app page in the Apple App store is displayed on a smartphone on Jan. 15. A potential tie-in with the popular TikTok service will help Fox reach young audiences in new ways, exposing them to everything from broadcast TV shows to streaming businesses like the ad-supported Tubi and Fox One, a paid online platform.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 23, 2025

After MySpace losses, Murdochs mull social media return with TikTok tie-up

A Fox investment in TikTok would give the media empire a platform with 170 million U.S. users to promote a broad range of TV programming — from the NFL to The Simpson.
U.S. President Donald Trump, in front of U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., delivers remarks linking autism to childhood vaccines and to the use of popular pain medication Tylenol for pregnant women and children — claims that are not backed by decades of science — at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2025

'I'm not a doctor': Trump's autism announcement gives COVID-19 flashbacks

The U.S. president's announcements linking a painkiller to autism ranged from unproven medical claims to self-proclaimed expertise.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez listens to Bill Gates speak during an interview at the annual Gates Foundation's Goalkeepers Summit in New York on Monday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 23, 2025

Bill Gates pledges $912 million to health aid, urging countries to reverse cuts

Speaking at an event in New York, Gates said the world was at a crossroads, with millions of children at risk of dying if funding drops too steeply.
Waleed Siam, representative of the Permanent General Mission of Palestine in Japan, at a news conference in Tokyo on Monday
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 23, 2025

Palestinian envoy urges Japan to recognize state after France, U.K. and others

The call came after Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Friday that Japan will not recognize Palestine as a state for the time being.
Visitors at the Osaka Expo last week. Japan will teach Saudi Arabia how to cope with venue congestion during the Riyadh Expo in 2030, which is expected to attract more than 40 million visitors.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2025

Japan to share expo know-how with Saudi Arabia

Riyadh is set to host the 2030 World Exposition.

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