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Ahmad Habibi and his younger brother Mahmood Habibi pose for the camera in Canada in 2014.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 11, 2025

How a CIA hit on al-Qaida ensnared a U.S. citizen in Afghanistan

Interviews reveal that the Taliban likely detained Mahmood Habibi because the CIA had penetrated the company where he worked.
Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill was recently sidelined by an oblique injury.
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Aug 11, 2025

NFL teams monitoring situation with Dolphins and receiver Tyreek Hill

The 31-year-old Hill has missed only one game in his first three seasons with Miami.
Wind turbines beyond an array of solar panels on the hillside in the Canical district of Madeira, Portugal, on Feb. 9, 2023. Renewables are now among the cheapest forms of electricity, especially after an energy crunch and the Ukraine war bolstered gas, oil and coal.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Aug 11, 2025

Hedge funds flip on green energy and start betting against oil

The outlook for solar and wind stocks is starting to improve.
A terrace of a shopping mall overlooking the central business district of Beijing on Monday. An extension of a trade truce between Washington and Beijing buys crucial time for the autumn surge of imports for the Christmas season, including electronics, apparel and toys, at lower tariff rates.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 12, 2025

U.S. and China extend tariff truce by 90 days, staving off surge in duties

The timing of the extension buys crucial time for the seasonal autumn surge of imports for the Christmas season at lower tariff rates.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the press about deploying federal law enforcement agents in Washington to bolster the local police presence, as U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth looks on, in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 12, 2025

Trump takes over D.C. police and deploys national guard in Washington

The move bypassed the city's elected leaders and was emblematic of a second-term that has seen him wield executive authority in ways with little precedent in modern U.S. history.
Stocks in Tokyo rallied on Tuesday despite months of uncertainty and general economic concerns.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 12, 2025

Japan's Nikkei 225 hits record high on tariff and rate optimism

Shares rise after some good news on the trade front and a long weekend.
Kaoru Mitoma celebrates scoring Brighton's second goal against Chelsea in the fourth round of the FA Cup on Feb. 8.
SOCCER
Aug 12, 2025

Kaoru Mitoma looks to build on Premier League success with Brighton

No Japanese player will be more essential for their team’s Premier League ambitions than Kaoru Mitoma.
HMS Prince of Wales arrives into the Port of Darwin, Australia, in July during Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025.
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2025

Britain’s Prince of Wales aircraft carrier makes Japan debut

This is the second time since the late 1990s that a British aircraft carrier has docked in Japan — after the HMS Queen Elizabeth in 2021.
Jannik Sinner returns a shot against Gabriel Diallo during the Cincinnati Open on Monday.
TENNIS
Aug 12, 2025

Steely Sinner advances amid Cincinnati power-failure chaos

In the WTA event, top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka fought through a three-hour battle to hold off an inspired Emma Raducanu.
Crystal Palace's Daichi Kamada (right) in action with Liverpool's Dominik Szoboszlai during the Community Shield match at Wembley Stadium in London on Sunday
SOCCER
Aug 12, 2025

Crystal Palace loses appeal against Europa League demotion

Nottingham Forest, which finished seventh in the Premier League last season, will replace Palace in the Europa League.
Ralph Edwards (far left), Capt. Robert Lewis (rear left), Bertha Starkey (rear center), Marvin Green (rear right), Kiyoshi (seated, left) and Chisa Tanimoto (seated, right), Koko Kondo (front left) and her three younger siblings, on the show “This Is Your Life,” on May 11, 1955
JAPAN / History / FOCUS
Aug 12, 2025

How an A-bomb survivor found forgiveness for Hiroshima bombers

Koko Kondo’s anger was extinguished when she saw the co-pilot of the Enola Gay bomber recall with regret what he and his crew had done on Aug. 6, 1945.
Fever guard Caitlin Clark (right) and head coach Stephanie White react to a call during the first half against the Wings on Aug. 1.
BASKETBALL
Aug 12, 2025

Fever coach says Caitlin Clark still not ready to return to practice

Clark only began running full-court last week and has not yet added more to her workload.
Max Holloway (left) fights against Dustin Poirier at UFC 318 at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans on July 19.
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Aug 12, 2025

Paramount wins exclusive U.S. rights to UFC in $7.7 billion deal

Streaming service Paramount+ will carry the complete U.S. slate of 13 numbered UFC shows and 30 "Fight Night" events.
Advertisements for factory rentals at Datang village in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 12, 2025

China factories cut shifts and workers' pay as U.S. tariffs bite

The increasingly common practice has become a hidden deflationary force in the world's second-largest economy.
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce during a preseason NFL game against the Arizona Cardinals on Saturday
MORE SPORTS / Football
Aug 13, 2025

Travis Kelce admits he 'slipped a little bit' given off-field pursuits

The certain future Pro Football Hall of Fame member says some of his celebrity activities have impacted his play.
Hideo Shimizu, 95, says he cannot forget seeing the prisoners' bloody wills scribbled on the walls of prison cells at Unit 731 in 1945.
JAPAN / History
Aug 13, 2025

The indelible memory of being a part of Unit 731

For 95-year-old Hideo Shimizu, the 4½ months he spent with the biological and chemical warfare unit of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army were just like yesterday.
Fred Kerley celebrates with his 100m bronze medal at the Stade de France at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
OLYMPICS / Athletics
Aug 13, 2025

Olympic medalist Kerley provisionally suspended for whereabouts failure

Kerley took 100m silver in Tokyo and bronze last year in Paris as well as the 2022 world 100m crown.
Russian traditional nesting dolls with images of Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as U.S. President Donald Trump. Ukrainian and European leaders worry that the hastily arranged Alaska meeting between the two leaders risks playing into Russia’s hands.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2025

Putin is about to outplay Trump again in Alaska

Trump isn’t wrong to try sitting down with U.S. foes and rivals, even where more conventional leaders would avoid the risk. But hastily arranged encounters rarely result as hoped.
A worker at Stetman LLC repairs a damaged Starlink terminal in an undisclosed location in Ukraine on July 14.
WORLD
Aug 13, 2025

Starlink techies keep Musk’s network running, even in a war

Despite his on-and-off feud with Trump and the subsequent exile from the White House, Musk remains a central figure in the war.
Modeled on a real-life World World II figure, Yutaka Takenouchi plays the captain of a “lucky” Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer in “Yukikaze.”
CULTURE / Film
Aug 14, 2025

‘Yukikaze’ turns fabled warship into floating snoozefest

The story of a “lucky” Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer that survived World War II is given a lightly fictionalized treatment in Toshihisa Yamada's first feature.
U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House in Washington on Feb. 7.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 14, 2025

After serving as bulwark for 80 years, Japan's U.S. ties continue to evolve

Under the U.S. security alliance, Japan has contained potential expansion of the Soviet communist bloc and China's hegemonic ambitions since the end of World War II.
Rescued migrants rest aboard the migrant search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 5, operated by German NGO Sea-Watch, as it makes its way towards the designated port of Salerno, Italy, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Society
Aug 14, 2025

EU security measures cut illegal arrivals, but migrants take riskier routes

Experts say migrants are adapting to stricter borders controls and becoming more reliant on smugglers and newer, often more dangerous paths.
The Cowboys' Micah Parson, seen at training camp in Oxnard, California, is in an ongoing contract dispute with the team.
MORE SPORTS / Football
Aug 14, 2025

Micah Parson stays silent as contract dispute with Cowboys continues

Parsons, 26, was present on but never took the field as the Cowboys went through their final padded practice of camp on Wednesday.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing. Nvidia, along with Advanced Micro Devices, has agreed to pay 15% of revenues from Chinese artificial intelligence chip sales to the U.S. government.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 14, 2025

Trump’s deal with Nvidia offers path forward in global trade war

The deal provides U.S. firms a path to enter the Chinese market despite various trade barriers.
Marquinhos lifts the trophy as Paris Saint-Germain celebrates after defeating Tottenham to win the UEFA Super Cup in Udine, Italy, on Wednesday.
SOCCER
Aug 14, 2025

PSG rallies late and beats Tottenham in shootout to win UEFA Super Cup

It is the first time PSG, or any French club, has lifted the Super Cup, as it takes its 2025 tally of trophies to five.
An Apple store in New York
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 14, 2025

Apple plots expansion into AI robots, home security and smart displays

A tabletop robot that serves as a virtual companion, targeted for 2027, is the centerpiece of the AI strategy.
Rakuten Bank CEO Tomotaka Torin is interviewed in Tokyo last week.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 14, 2025

Rakuten Bank to refrain from JGB buying as more rate hikes seen

"We’re not going for any aggressive buying of JGBs until we’ve seen at least another rate hike or two,” CEO Tomotaka Torin said in an interview.
Osaka Asian Film Festival, which will hold its 21st edition early to draw on Expo 2025 visitors, is set to open on Aug. 29 with a restoration of “Tracing to Expo ’70.” The Taiwanese film follows a Japan-raised Taiwanese woman whose search for her long-lost benefactor takes her to the 1970 Osaka Expo.
CULTURE / Film
Aug 15, 2025

Osaka Asian Film Festival gets an expo boost

In a rare double bill, the Osaka Asian Film Festival will stage a special summer edition to make the most out of interest in the ongoing world's fair.
Venus Williams will be making her 25th appearance in the singles draw at the U.S. Open this year.
TENNIS
Aug 14, 2025

Venus Williams receives wild card for U.S. Open

The 45-year-old American recently returned from a 16-month layoff after a serious health scare.
Employees work at the apparel manufacturing unit at Bhiwandi in the Thane district of India's Maharashtra state on July 30.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 14, 2025

Trump’s 50% tariff threatens India’s manufacturing ambitions

The U.S. is now India’s biggest export market and one of its top sources of foreign investment.

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past