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The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Friday. The current government shutdown is the most acute symptom of a general lack of goodwill in Washington, where bipartisan deal-making has increasingly gone out of vogue.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 12, 2025

Trump layoffs and broken trust harden Democrats’ shutdown stand

Democrats have expressed doubts that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump will deliver a health care fix unless forced to do so.
In a ranking of the best-performing equity indexes this year, the U.S. doesn’t crack the Top 50. You need to go all the way to No. 66 before the world’s most valuable equity index shows up — one of the worst relative performances since the global financial crisis for the U.S. benchmark.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Oct 12, 2025

A great year for U.S. stocks? Not compared with rest of the world.

The underperformance, market participants say, owes just as much to a broader shift in the mindset among foreign investors
Saury catches from August to the end of September this year totaled about 28,500 tons — a 2.4-fold increase from the same period last year.
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2025

Japan group to launch AI service for saury size predictions

Since 2020, AI has helped predict likely saury fishing spots based on seawater temperature changes and past fishing records.
A giant inflatable basketball promoting NBA preseason games held at Venetian Arena in Macao on Friday.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Oct 12, 2025

Treading fine line, NBA money machine kicks into gear on China return

The preseason games heralded the NBA's return to China for the first time since being effectively frozen out of the country in 2019.
After a run-up marked by apathy, organizers soon found they had the opposite problem as crowd control became a concern.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 12, 2025

As the Osaka Expo comes to a close, what will its legacy be?

The mega-event was a resounding success, taking in some 25 million visitors over 184 days. But how its legacy will look in the decades to come remains a question mark.
A container ship sails at the port in Qingdao, China, on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 12, 2025

China blames U.S. for raising trade tensions and defends rare earth curbs

Beijing's decision not to immediately respond to Trump's opening salvo could leave the door open for both countries to negotiate a deescalation.
Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday after leaving the ruling coalition earlier in the day.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 12, 2025

After ruling bloc collapses, LDP and opposition scramble to find needed votes for PM

New LDP President Sanae Takaichi faces a higher hurdle in finding the votes needed to become Japan’s next leader as opposition forces discuss a unified candidate.
A Qantas Boeing 737-800 plane prepares to land next to a Qantas Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft preparing to take off at Sydney International Airport in September last year. The Australian airline said Sunday that data from 5.7 million customers stolen in a major cyberattack in July had been leaked online.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 12, 2025

Australian airline Qantas says millions of customers' data leaked online

Most of the data leaked was names, email addresses and frequent flyer details, the firm said.
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado speaks to supporters while holding up electoral records during a rally in Caracas in August 2024. The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced on Friday she was the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 12, 2025

Machado receives the Nobel Peace Prize as Trump’s attempts to secure award fall short

Machado, as the committee put it, is known for her tireless work promoting democracy for Venezuelans and her struggle against dictatorship.
Android robots shown at the Osaka Expo in a pavilion produced by University of Osaka professor Hiroshi Ishiguro will be relocated to Kyoto Prefecture.
JAPAN
Oct 12, 2025

Osaka Expo androids to be moved to Kyoto

The robots will be shown to the public at a research facility in the Keihanna Science City research district.
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.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 13, 2025

Hamas hands over surviving Israeli hostages as Trump visits region

A hostage swap between the two sides is a key step in ending two years of ruinous war in Gaza under a ceasefire deal engineered by U.S. President Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Russian leader Vladimir Putin as they meet at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 13, 2025

Trump may approve Tomahawks for Ukraine if Russia continues war

U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments signal an openness to expanding the range of weaponry provided to Ukraine but also that he remains focused on a ceasefire.
U.S. gross domestic product grew in the second quarter at the fastest pace in nearly two years.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 13, 2025

World economy faces triple risk of tariffs, AI bubble and soaring debt

Such concerns will dominate the annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington this week.
Pudong's Lujiazui Financial District on Oct. 2. While Chinese markets will get their first chance to respond on Monday, any following of the U.S. selloff may be tempered by weekend signals from the White House that it’s open to a deal.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 13, 2025

China markets under threat from risk of renewed U.S. trade war

After Beijing unveiled curbs on the export of rare earths earlier in the week, U.S. President Donald Trump said he would put an additional 100% tariff on China from Nov. 1.
U.S. President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up while boarding Air Force One, as he departs for Israel, at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sunday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 13, 2025

Trump and Vance open door to China deal as trade spat drags on

Remarks by the two suggest that the U.S. wants to keep up the pressure on China to reverse its most recent trade moves, while trying to reassure spooked markets.
The RRS Sir David Attenborough, moored in Harwich, eastern England, on Oct. 6 ahead of the ship's departure to undertake research in the Antarctic later in the month as part of British Antarctic Survey
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Oct 13, 2025

U.K. spearheads polar climate change research as U.S. draws back

Britain's RRS Sir David Attenborough will aid research on everything from "hunting underwater tsunamis" to tracking glacier melt and whale populations.
In his book, correspondent Chris Horton examines Taiwan's history but also brings the story into the present by tracing its strategic alignments today.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 13, 2025

'Ghost Nation' puts Taiwan’s history in present context

Horton, a veteran correspondent who has lived in Taiwan for more than a decade, devotes substantial space in the book to the transformative years of Japanese rule over Taiwan.
Recent research shows obesity may be driven by ultraprocessed and hyperpalatable foods that disrupt fullness signals and lead to overeating.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2025

What if everything we think about obesity is wrong?

New research offers novel insight into the causes of overeating but it’s being lost to political posturing.
The tanker Boracay, part of Russia's "shadow fleet" suspected of involvement in drone flights over Denmark, is escorted by a French naval vessel on Oct. 1 off the coast of Saint-Nazaire, France.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 13, 2025

Putin is taking his hybrid warfare to the sea

Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to contest the Baltic, make no mistake.
The Bank of Japan in Tokyo. Turmoil in developed nations such as France and Japan underscores how politics is eclipsing central bank policy as a key market driver.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 13, 2025

The politics premium is punishing bonds from Paris to Tokyo

Investors are demanding fiscal consolidation, while anything resembling austerity can prove politically contentious and toxic at the ballot box.
Stuffed toys featuring Myaku-Myaku, the official mascot character of the Osaka Expo, line the shelves of a store at the expo site on Yumeshima island in the city of Osaka.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2025

Sales of Expo mascot Myaku-Myaku goods to continue through March

The sales period has been extended by over five months thanks to an unexpected surge in the popularity of Myaku-Myaku.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes makes a throw against the Lions in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Oct 13, 2025

Chiefs rebound with NFL win over Lions, as Ravens lose again

Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes threw for three touchdowns and ran for another as Kansas City snapped Detroit's four-game winning streak.
Inna Ilina, vice president of the Ukraine Pavilion, says she is grateful her country was able to participate and send out a clear message: Ukraine and its democratic values are not for sale.
JAPAN
Oct 13, 2025

At Osaka Expo pavilions, staff recount ‘life-changing’ experiences

Nearly 160 countries and regions participated in the Osaka Expo, with each bringing staff from overseas to help run their respective pavilions during the six-month event.
Secretary-General of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren addresses journalists during the announcement of the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday. (From left, in the projected image) Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt were recognized “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth.”
WORLD
Oct 13, 2025

Trio wins 2025 Nobel economics prize for work on innovation and growth

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt win the 2025 Nobel economics prize for explaining innovation-driven growth and the role of creative destruction.
<i>Sashiko</I> dates to the Edo Period (1603-1868) and began as a technique that allowed working-class people to prolong the lifespan of their clothing.
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Oct 13, 2025

Beauty in slowness: Life lessons from Japanese embroidery

After taking up the practice of sashiko stitching six years ago, a Chinese Canadian woman found an anchor in the traditional craft amidst major life transitions.
Crowds gather as a helicopter carrying hostages freed from captivity by Hamas in Gaza arrives at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, Israel, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 14, 2025

Trump hails 'tremendous day for Middle East' as leaders sign Gaza declaration

The signing came hours after Israel and Hamas exchanged hostages and prisoners.
Palestinian militants on the day that hostages held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack, are handed over in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Monday.
WORLD
Oct 14, 2025

Hamas carries out wave of Gaza killings, citing crime and security concerns

U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking on his way to the Middle East, suggested Hamas had been given a temporary green light to police Gaza.
Jin Mingri, the head pastor of the Zion Church in Beijing, has been detained by Chinese authorities on "suspicion of the illegal use of information networks."
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 14, 2025

China detains prominent underground pastor in crackdown

Jin Mingri, who founded the unregistered Zion Church, has been detained on "suspicion of the illegal use of information networks."
Mariners second baseman Jorge Polanco hits a three-run home run against the Blue Jays in Toronto on Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 14, 2025

Mariners rout Blue Jays to seize 2-0 lead in MLB playoffs

The Mariners are halfway to winning the best-of-seven American League Championship Series and reaching their first World Series.
Supporters celebrate Cape Verde's victory against Eswatini in a 2026 World Cup qualifying match, at a fan zone in Sao Vicente, Cape Verde, on Monday.
SOCCER
Oct 14, 2025

Cape Verde erupts in celebration after first World Cup qualification

FIFA President Gianni Infantino said the achievement was likely to "power a new generation of football lovers" across the nation.

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years