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Mai Nishitaka was sentenced to 17 years in prison by the Yokohama District Court for killing her ex-partner in 2023.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2025

Woman sentenced to 17 years for killing ex-boyfriend

Mai Nishitaka and four others strangled her ex-partner and abandoned the body in a suitcase by the Tama River in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth greet each other during a meeting of senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia on Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2025

Trump and Hegseth advance militaristic noise over nuance

For countries that study U.S. actions closely, this week’s spectacle was anything but reassuring.
Hamas said on Friday that it had agreed to release all of the Israeli hostages held in Gaza, in response to the peace proposal introduced by President Donald Trump earlier this week.
WORLD
Oct 4, 2025

Hamas agrees to release Israeli hostages but sets conditions

The statement was a positive step that still raised questions about whether the promise would be sufficient to end the conflict.
Venezuelan migrants who had been detained in El Salvador walk up stairs to the terminal after disembarking from a plane at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, in July.
WORLD
Oct 4, 2025

U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump strip temporary status from Venezuelan migrants

The court's ruling came at a time of simmering tensions between the United States and Venezuela.
The U.S. Capitol in Washington. The leaders of both parties are sticking to their talking points as the first shutdown in nearly seven years stretches into its third day.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 4, 2025

Shutdown drags on as senators leave Washington amid impasse

The leaders of both parties are sticking to their talking points as the first shutdown in nearly seven years stretches into its third day.
Hong Kong has already installed almost 4,000 CCTV cameras under a police crime-fighting program. That number will increase to a total of 60,000 by 2028, according to documents submitted to the legislature.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 4, 2025

Hong Kong to install surveillance cameras with AI facial recognition

The Chinese finance hub has already installed almost 4,000 CCTV cameras under a police crime-fighting program.
Trains decorated to resemble the 103 (left) and 205 series of trains that formerly ran on the Yamanote Line, in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN
Oct 4, 2025

Retro-wrapped trains mark 100th anniversary of Tokyo's Yamanote Line

The two commemorative trains, featuring designs from the 103 and 205 series trains, are scheduled to run until Nov. 3.
JB Pritzker
WORLD / Politics
Oct 5, 2025

Illinois governor says Trump to send National Guard to state over his objection

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said President Donald Trump plans to call up 300 members of the state’s national guard, defying local political opposition.
Police look at residential buildings that were destroyed overnight during Russian drone and missile strikes, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv on Sept. 28.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 5, 2025

China provides intelligence to Russia on Ukraine targets, Kyiv says

A senior Ukrainian official said Beijing was passing on satellite intelligence on targets, including those benefiting from foreign investment.
Law enforcement officers detain a demonstrator during a protest at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday.
WORLD
Oct 5, 2025

Judge blocks Trump on Portland troops as national guard ordered to Illinois

A Trump-appointed judge said in an order that the national guard deployment to the Oregon city did not appear to be justified due to the limited nature of the protests.
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 5, 2025

Taiwan's Lai congratulates Takaichi on LDP leadership win

The Taiwanese leader expressed his heartfelt congratulations in a post written in Japanese on X, calling Takaichi a steadfast friend of Taiwan.
A trade fair for video games in Paris in 2023. The games industry in general has struggled in recent years, with players spending more time on existing titles and not taking as many chances on new ones.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 5, 2025

Xbox’s hike on Game Pass shows cost of lost Call of Duty sales

The price hike and other changes are a sign that Xbox’s big streaming push is still not generating the revenue it would like eight years after launch.
Garment workers at a factory in Gazipur, Bangladesh, in April.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 5, 2025

Bangladesh's textile firms turn to technology to sort waste crisis

Cloud-hosted software allows manufacturers to monitor waste on a digital platform and track it as it passes between factories, handlers and recyclers.
Andy Weyman and Terry Davis are among the many people in Malibu, California, who are waiting to rebuild their home after this year’s California wildfires.
WORLD
Oct 5, 2025

The LA fires destroyed 11,000 homes. Less than 10% have permits to rebuild

People trying to restore their homes are grappling with slow permit approvals, high costs and low insurance payouts.
A member of the Chinese People's Liberation Army stands as a DF-17 hypersonic missile is displayed during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 5, 2025

The missiles threatening Taiwan

China is transforming parts of its east coast into a platform for potential missile strikes against Taiwan and the nearby seas as it eyes taking the democratic island.
Sanae Takaichi, newly elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a news conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Saturday.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Oct 5, 2025

Japan's economic policy outlook unclear under Takaichi-led minority government

Much depends on whether new Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi can successfully find an additional coalition partner.
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi greets her fellow LDP members on Saturday at party headquarters.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 5, 2025

Takaichi, the LDP’s first female president, is far from an ‘overnight success’

It took Takaichi three attempts and countless calls to her fellow lawmakers to defy expectations and attain a post she has dreamed of for decades.
Fire engulfs Nepal's main administrative building in Kathmandu on Sept. 9, following a police crackdown on protests over government corruption and social media restrictions. This violent unrest is part of a larger pattern of instability in South Asia that threatens regional security and India’s strategic interests.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 5, 2025

India’s reckoning with its dangerous neighborhood

All these stories point to a larger worrying trend: Democracy in India’s neighborhood is in retreat.
Newly elected Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi is applauded after winning the party's leadership election in Tokyo on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 5, 2025

Will Sanae Takaichi be Japan’s Thatcher — or its Truss?

Takaichi is comfortably the most conservative choice the party could have made, if not the most right-leaning leader in recent history.
People attend a commemorative event organized by the Israeli community to honor the lives lost in the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, at the Hebraica Club in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Sunday.
WORLD
Oct 6, 2025

Hamas calls for swift hostage-prisoner swap as Trump urges quick talks

The push follows Hamas' positive response to Trump's roadmap for an end to the fighting and the release of captives in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
Sanae Takaichi, newly elected leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a news conference at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 6, 2025

Four questions that determine Takaichi’s success

From breaking with Komeito to revisiting the U.S. trade deal, new Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi has the potential to shake up Japanese politics.
A Xiaomi SU7 model electric car is displayed at the Beijing Auto Show in Beijing in April last year.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 6, 2025

Porsche and Xiaomi face off over custom-model buyers in China

Xiaomi is competing for consumers who may otherwise opt for an individualized Porsche or another premium European brand.
French President Emmanuel Macron has reappointed most senior members from the Cabinet of ousted premier Francois Bayrou in a clear continuation of his centrist policy aims.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2025

Macron’s continuity Cabinet risks another government collapse

Most senior members from the Cabinet of ousted premier Francois Bayrou were renamed to their posts in a clear continuation of Macron’s centrist policy aims.
A member of one of Syria's local committees votes in the country's selection process to designate an interim parliament, in Damascus on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2025

Syria selects members of first post-Assad parliament

The process has been criticized as undemocratic, as instead of holding a nationwide vote, lawmakers are being selected by local committees and interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
A customer pays for a coffee at a bar in Buenos Aires on Sept. 23. Many Argentines are traveling to Rio de Janeiro, Miami and the Uruguayan beach town of Punta del Este but, when it comes to shopping trips, most go to the Chilean capital of Santiago.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025

Argentines blow billions shopping abroad, fanning currency crisis

More Argentines have traveled to Chile this year than have people from every other country combined, with their purchases with Argentine bank cards there soaring 438% this year.
The Capitol Building in Washington on Oct. 1. The mass layoffs of federal workers could begin if President Donald Trump decides negotiations to end a partial government shutdown are "absolutely going nowhere," a senior White House official said Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2025

White House says mass layoffs will start if shutdown talks 'going nowhere'

No tangible signs of negotiations have emerged between congressional leaders since Trump met with them last week.
British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on the BBC's "Sunday Morning" political television show in Manchester, England, on Sunday. She will give police new powers to place limits on repeated protests
WORLD
Oct 6, 2025

U.K. to introduce limits on protests after synagogue attack

The move comes a day after police arrested nearly 500 people in the latest protest in Trafalgar Square in support of the banned Palestine Action group.
People walk past the Taipei Liaison Office — Taiwan's representative office in South Africa’s administrative capital, Pretoria — in October last year.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025

Chinese pressure shreds Taiwan’s relationship with South Africa

The dispute is a stark example of the precarious moment facing Taiwan in a world order upended by the U.S. under President Donald Trump.
A banner of U.S. President Donald Trump on the Department of Labor in Washington, on Thursday
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025

Fake job scams cost U.S. job seekers $12 billion as labor market tightens

Employment-related scam cases rose by over 1,000% from May through July, when new graduates typically search for jobs, according to McAfee.
Indonesia's Yance Sayuri (left) and Japan's Shunsuke Mito vie for the ball during a World Cup qualifier in Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on June 10.
SOCCER
Oct 6, 2025

Soccer-mad Indonesia ready to make push to reach World Cup

The soccer-mad nation of nearly 300 million people is on the verge of its first World Cup since gaining independence from the Dutch in 1945.
As the Osaka Expo comes to a close, what will its legacy be?
After a run-up marked by apathy, organizers soon found they had the opposite problem as crowd control became a concern.
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
After ruling bloc collapses, LDP and opposition scramble to find needed votes for PM
Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday after leaving the ruling coalition earlier in the day.
After plenty of ups and downs, Osaka Expo concludes with message of unity
The sun sets on the Grand Ring on the final day of the Osaka Expo on Monday.
Hamas hands over surviving Israeli hostages as Trump visits region
Released Israeli hostages, twins Gali and Ziv Berman, held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas, speak to each other after being released, as part of a prisoner-hostage swap and a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Reim, Israel, on Monday.
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
At Osaka Expo, gas giants promote a greener future. But is it a lot of hot air?
The Gas Pavilion had welcomed around 500,000 visitors by the end of August, making it one of the most popular exhibits at the Osaka Expo.
‘Takaichi trade’ starts unwinding as political calculus upended by Komeito exit
Less than a week ago, Sanae Takaichi seemed set to become Japan's first female prime minister.
‘Save the Ring’ calls intensify as Osaka Expo’s end nears
Visitors lounge on the grassy hill on the top of the Grand Ring during the 2025 Osaka Expo in the city of Osaka in May.
A Japanese comedian walks into an Aussie bar … and stays there
Takashi “Waka” Wakasugi stopped by the Tokyo Comedy Bar in Shibuya Ward last month following his stint at Edinburgh Festival Fringe performing his show “Comedy Samurai.”

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Rock group The Yellow Monkey played K-Arena Yokohama in June as part of a nationwide tour. Concerts are increasingly popular in the age of social media as users value in-person experiences.
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