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People pray in front of the cenotaph for the atomic bombing victims at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in the city of Hiroshima on Wednesday, which marks the 80th anniversary of the bombing.
JAPAN
Aug 6, 2025

Hiroshima calls for nuclear-free world on 80th anniversary of atomic bombing

Any message to create a world free of nuclear weapons from the only country that experienced atomic bombings appears to be losing momentum amid global conflicts.
Ukrainian emergency workers scour the rubble of a residential building in Kyiv after a Russian air attack on July 31.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 6, 2025

Russia weighs Ukraine air-truce offer to Trump without ending war

The Kremlin is weighing options for a concession that could include an air truce with Ukraine to try to head off the threat of secondary U.S. sanctions.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he’ll increase the tariff rate for India "substantially” because of New Delhi’s refusal to halt the buying of Russian oil.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 6, 2025

Trump’s staffing gaps complicate India’s bid to ease U.S. tensions

It’s become urgent for New Delhi to make its case to Washington after being unexpectedly slapped with a 25% tariff and facing further threats over its ties with Russia.
A cargo ship at the port of Oakland, California, on Aug. 4
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 6, 2025

U.S. trade deficit narrowed 16% in June as high tariffs cast shadow on services

Days after reporting that the goods trade deficit fell to its lowest since September 2023, the U.S. said the full deficit including services was also its narrowest since then.
A mushroom cloud from the atomic bombing on Hiroshima taken from a U.S. military aircraft on Aug. 6, 1945. Copying the photo without permission is prohibited.
JAPAN / History / Longform
Aug 6, 2025

80 years on, a Japanese American hibakusha recalls the day the bomb dropped

As a 7-year-old boy in Hiroshima, Howard Kakita was hoping to catch the vapor trail of a B-29 bomber. A sudden blast knocked him out.
Mazda Motor posted a consolidated net loss of ¥42.1 billion ($286 million) for the three months to June, its first loss in the fiscal first quarter since 2020.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 6, 2025

Mazda swings to net loss in April-June

The automaker posted a consolidated net loss of ¥42.1 billion for the period as a result of steep U.S. tariffs and a stronger yen.
A tense exchange of nuclear threats between U.S. President Donald Trump and Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president and prime minister, underscores the danger that reckless rhetoric could spark a war.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2025

Moving nuclear subs isn’t something you announce on social media

A tense exchange of nuclear threats between U.S. President Trump and Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president and prime minister, highlights the dangers of reckless rhetoric.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive economic policies during his second term — including sweeping tariffs — risk triggering long-term damage to U.S. competitiveness and trust in the dollar.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2025

The true costs of Trump’s economic agenda

President Donald Trump’s efforts to bring back manufacturing jobs have yielded little progress so far and are jeopardizing U.S. competitiveness.
The Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, is on display at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in Virginia after restoration in August 2003.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 6, 2025

Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings necessary?

Was it necessary to drop the bombs on civilian population centers to demonstrate the power of the weapons?
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he and Apple CEO Tim Cook (not pictured) present the tech company's announcement of a $100 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 7, 2025

Trump eyes 100% chips tariff, but zero percent for U.S. investors like Apple

The U.S. president has said he could unveil separate levies on all products containing semiconductor chips as soon as next week.
U.S. President Donald Trump (right) meets with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on April 14.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 7, 2025

U.S. to ease criticism of El Salvador, Israel and Russia, says report

The Trump administration has increasingly moved away from the traditional promotion of democracy and human rights.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at Alvorada Palace in Brasilia on July 8
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 8, 2025

Modi speaks with Lula and plans Xi meeting as ties with U.S. sour

Lula’s government noted that "Brazil and India are, to date, the two countries most affected” by the wave of levies the U.S. has unleashed.
A migrant is detained by federal immigration officers at a U.S. immigration court in Manhattan, in New York City, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 8, 2025

U.S. deploys patriotic icons to recruit for migrant crackdown

Job ads promising $50,000 signing bonuses to new "Deportation Officers" have flooded social media over the past week alongside rallying slogans that say "America Needs You."
The FBI is firing another round of employees who worked on issues that drew U.S. President Donald Trump's ire.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 8, 2025

FBI ousts former acting director and others in latest purge, people briefed say

The firings are the latest move by the FBI to remove officials who worked on issues that drew backlash from U.S. President Donald Trump.
U.S. President Donald Trump holds the hands of Azerbaijanu President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan as they shake hands during a trilateral signing event at the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 9, 2025

Trump says Armenia and Azerbaijan commit to end fighting 'forever'

However, the fine print and binding nature of the deal between the longtime foes remained unclear.
Former astronaut Jim Lovell talks about his historic space flights in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in April 2010
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 9, 2025

Jim Lovell, commander of NASA's Apollo 13 moon mission, dies at 97

The mission nearly ended in disaster but became an inspirational saga of survival and endurance and led to the hit Hollywood movie starring Tom Hanks.
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.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during a joint news conference in Helsinki in 2018. For Putin, the upcoming summit with Trump is an opportunity not just to end the Ukraine war on his terms, but to split apart the Western security alliance.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 11, 2025

In a Trump-Putin summit, Ukraine fears losing say over its future

Kyiv's worry for the past six months has been that U.S. President Donald Trump’s image of a "peace accord” is a deal struck directly between him and Russia.
A sapper in the Ukrainian Armed Forces blows up an explosive device during a training session in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, on Saturday
WORLD / Politics
Aug 12, 2025

Europe races to try to influence U.S. position ahead of Trump-Putin talks

Kyiv and its EU allies fear that Trump, keen to claim credit for peace and lucrative deals with Moscow, could cut a one-sided deal with Putin.
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.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is trying to build solidarity across the BRICS club of major emerging nations, of which Brazil is a founding member along with Russia, China and India.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 12, 2025

Lula speaks with Xi after Modi and Putin amid standoff with Trump

Brazil's president is trying to build solidarity across the BRICS club of major emerging nations, of which Brazil is a founding member along with Russia, China and India.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell (center left) talks to U.S. President Donald Trump and Sen. Tim Scott as they tour the Federal Reserve’s renovation project in Washington on July 24.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 13, 2025

Trump may allow lawsuit against Powell over Fed renovation amid rate tension

The renovation work has become a flash point in Trump’s pressure campaign against Powell and the central bank for not lowering borrowing costs.
A screen displays share prices inside the Kabuto One building in Tokyo. The Nikkei 225 closed at a record high of 43,378.31 on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 15, 2025

Tokyo stocks hit closing-price record as GDP surprises

The Japanese economy grew much faster than expected in the second quarter.
Plastic bottles and other refuse collected from Border Field State Park Beach in San Diego in May
ENVIRONMENT / ANALYSIS
Aug 16, 2025

Tough U.S. stance casts gloom over plastics pollution deal after Geneva flop

Many states and campaigners blamed the failure on oil-producers including the U.S, which they said urged others to reject caps on new plastic production.
A BNP Paribas branch in Paris. The EU’s biggest bank by assets was questioning the value of continued Net-Zero Banking Alliance membership as recently as June.
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2025

Banking’s ailing climate coalition loses ground in Europe

Inside the world’s largest climate coalition for banks, there’s speculation that an exodus led by Wall Street could be about to spread to the European Union.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint news conference with the European Commission president in Brussels on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 18, 2025

Trump’s peace-deal demands leave Ukraine's Zelenskyy with only bad options

Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy faces an existential dilemma as he travels to Washington for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba takes part in an online meeting focused on Ukraine, with leaders from the "coalition of the willing," a group of nations that have pledged support for Kyiv against Russian aggression, late Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 18, 2025

Japan watches nervously as Trump ramps up pressure on Zelenskyy

The U.S. president is pushing the Ukrainian leader to reach a quick peace deal with Russia — an agreement that could have broad ramifications for Japan.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with European leaders in Washington on Monday amid signs of U.S. and its NATO partners drifting further apart. 
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 19, 2025

All is not quiet on the Western front

The Trump-Putin Alaska summit is further evidence that the U.S. and its NATO partners are drifting further apart with each passing month.
National Guard troops keep watch outside Washington's Union Station on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard and ordered an increased federal law enforcement presence in the capital, which he has characterized as overrun with violence and homelessness.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 20, 2025

More Republican governors send National Guard to Washington, backing Trump

The U.S. president has characterized Washington as overrun with violence and homelessness, accusing the city of using fake data to "create a false illusion of safety."
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier has chosen to remain at the House until Wednesday, after Democratic lawmakers who had left the state to prevent Republicans from redrawing Texas’s 38 congressional districts returned to the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 20, 2025

Texas lawmaker prepares for second night of redistricting protest in state Capitol

Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier is pushing back in a redistricting battle as President Donald Trump seeks to keep Republican control of Congress.

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Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight