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DONALD TRUMP

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.
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
People walk amid the destruction in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, on Saturday, a day after an Israel-Hamas ceasefire took effect.
WORLD
Oct 12, 2025
Gazans stream back home as Israel-Hamas ceasefire holds
Thousands of Palestinians streamed north along the coast of Gaza on Saturday, trekking by foot, car, and cart back to their abandoned homes as a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas appeared to be holding.
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.
A federal agent chases a man in a shopping center parking lot in Chicago on Saturday, after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered increased federal law enforcement presence to assist in crime prevention.
WORLD
Oct 12, 2025
U.S. appeals court says national guard sent to Illinois can stay, but not deploy
The decision largely upholds a lower court's halt on the mobilization by U.S. President Donald Trump as part of his mass deportation campaign.
U.S. President Donald Trump returns to the White House on Friday after a medical checkup at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Trump said on Saturday that he had identified funds that would allow the administration to pay members of the military, even though the government remains shut down and Congress has not approved additional money for the troops.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 12, 2025
U.S. military will use R&D money to pay troops if shutdown persists
With no signs of a resolution anytime soon, the administration on Friday began making good on Trump's threat to lay off thousands of federal workers.
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George Washington during a trilateral exercise including the United States, Japan and South Korea in the East China Sea in November last year
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2025
Japan and U.S. leaders may tour U.S. aircraft carrier
According to sources, the two sides plan to have their leaders visit the Yokosuka base during U.S. President Donald Trump's upcoming trip to the Asian nation later this month.
A billboard showing an image of U.S. President Donald Trump to thank him for his role in reaching a ceasefire deal with Hamas, and another one bearing Israel's national flag, are installed on a main highway in Tel Aviv on Thursday.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 11, 2025
Major win for Trump on Gaza, but will it stand test of time?
It remains to be seen whether the 79-year-old Trump will devote the same level of energy to the conflict over the long term, once his victory lap is over.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Oct. 5.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 11, 2025
Trusting Trump: Why Hamas gambled on giving up Gaza hostages
The U.S. president's handling of Israel's Qatar attack on Hamas officials gave the group more faith that he was serious about ending the war in Gaza.
U.S. President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House upon returning from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after a medical checkup on Friday, in Washington.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 11, 2025
Trump, 79, has 'cardiac age' of 65-year-old, doctor says
The U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."
Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado greets supporters during a rally in Guanare, Venezuela, in July 2024.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 11, 2025
Nobel winner vilified by Maduro regime vows to keep up her fight in Venezuela
Supporters of Maria Corina Machado have thinned under Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's brutal crackdown that's sent many to jail or into exile.
A teacher hands out a "defend your rights" flyer to a parent outside Nash Elementary School, amid U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's increased presence in the Chicago area on Sept. 4.
WORLD
Oct 11, 2025
Chicago ICE raids and national guard troops prompt new school leaflets: ‘Know your rights’
U.S. President Donald Trump's deportation drive has induced fear in immigrant communities and protectiveness from educators.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks during the Federal Reserve Board Community Bank Conference in Washington on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 11, 2025
Bessent’s big gamble on Argentina has a narrow road to pay off
For the Treasury secretary's $20 billion bet to pay off, a lot of things have to go right — things that in the past, in Argentina, have tended to go wrong.
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, as they meet to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 11, 2025
With flattery and warnings, Russia tries to revive 'spirit of Alaska' with U.S.
Moscow is trying to adapt to Trump's diplomatic reversals by taking a delicate twin-track approach.
A worker waters the site of a rare earth metals mine in Nancheng county, in China's Jiangxi province, in January 2011.
BUSINESS / Economy / FOCUS
Oct 11, 2025
The world’s chip supply chain is bracing for fallout from China’s rare-earth curbs
The restrictions represent the first major attempt by Beijing to exercise long-arm jurisdiction over foreign companies to target the semiconductor industry.
The U.S. Capitol in Washington on Friday. The White House is making good on threats to fire thousands of federal workers amid a government shutdown now in its 10th day, with job cuts across federal agencies.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 11, 2025
Trump fires federal workers amid shutdown fight with Democrats
The firings mark the first large-scale layoffs of federal employees during a funding lapse in modern history.
U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he walks to Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Friday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 11, 2025
Trump ratchets up U.S.-China trade war with new levies and export controls
The actions signaled the biggest rupture in relations in four months between Beijing and Washington — the world's biggest factory and its biggest consumer.
A Ford F-150 pickup truck on the assembly line at a factory in Dearborn, Michigan. The Japanese government might be considering the purchase of some of the pickup trucks to meet its obligations as part of a trade deal with the United States.
BUSINESS / Economy
Oct 10, 2025
Ford F-150 might be imported by the Japanese government: report
The pickup trucks would be used by local transport ministry offices for construction and road patrols.
People celebrate on Thursday in Tel Aviv's Hostages Square after U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed on the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 10, 2025
A deal that might heal — or haunt — the Middle East
A recent American intelligence assessment warned that Tehran views the ceasefire as a “strategic timeout,” a chance to rearm its proxies while Washington celebrates diplomacy.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is escalating its efforts to target domestic opponents, raising alarm among civil rights groups and Democratic leaders about the use of executive power.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 10, 2025
Trump’s war on the left: Inside the plan to investigate liberal groups
Potential tools to defund or shut down groups include IRS investigations to strip them of tax-exempt status and criminal probes by the Justice Department and FBI.
Hypothermia in the land of the rising Sanae
Amid the election of Sanae Takaichi as Liberal Democratic Party president, and possibly the next prime minister, Japan's economy shows signs of recovery, but weak wages, a conservative corporate culture and currency issues raise doubts about a true economic thaw.
Number of scenarios now on the table for who might be Japan’s next prime minister
Newly-elected leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Sanae Takaichi (right) celebrates with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after winning the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on October 4.
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.
A frenetic diplomatic schedule looms for Japan’s next leader — whomever that may be
As horse-trading and speculation surge over who will be elected the next prime minister in parliament — the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Sanae Takaichi or a possible candidate put forward by a unified opposition — Japan’s next leader will be confronted with a quick succession of key diplomatic events.
ANA flight returns to Haneda Airport after hitting runway lights
An All Nippon Airways flight returned to Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Monday evening, about an hour after takeoff, after it was found to have struck runway lights.
Number of scenarios now on the table for who might be Japan’s next prime minister
Newly-elected leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party Sanae Takaichi (right) celebrates with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after winning the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on October 4.
Pace eyes great strides for Japan’s art market
Pace Japan Vice President Kyoko Hattori, the de facto head of the nation’s business, believes a larger, more lucrative art market will allow Japan to be more attractive for collectors.
A frenetic diplomatic schedule looms for Japan’s next leader — whomever that may be
As horse-trading and speculation surge over who will be elected the next prime minister in parliament — the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's Sanae Takaichi or a possible candidate put forward by a unified opposition — Japan’s next leader will be confronted with a quick succession of key diplomatic events.
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.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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