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MIDDLE EAST

U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed Bin Salman shake hands at the Royal Court in Riyadh on May 13.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 9, 2025
Before talks with Trump, Saudi Arabia doubles down on terms for Israel ties
Normalized relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia could shake up the Middle East, and possibly strengthen U.S. influence there.
Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa on May 27. The Syrian leader will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 9, 2025
Syrian president arrives in U.S. for landmark visit
Sharaa, whose rebel forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad last year, is due to meet Donald Trump on Monday.
Security adviser Grant Bowden evacuates Reuters photographer Raneen Sawafta following an Israeli settlers attack, near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday.
WORLD
Nov 9, 2025
Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, journalists in West Bank, witnesses say
The area has been a flash point for settler attacks, which increased across the West Bank after the war in Gaza began two years ago.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and others attend a Cabinet meeting on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
JAPAN
Nov 7, 2025
Japan extends SDF deployment in Middle East
The SDF's antipiracy mission in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia is one of the missions that has been extended.
A displaced Palestinian woman shows her torn tent, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Nov 5, 2025
Gaza not getting enough tents and food as winter approaches
Aid agencies say supplies are still far short nearly four weeks into a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
A member of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society reads a story to children as part of mental support activities at the organization’s center in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 30.
WORLD / Society
Nov 4, 2025
Gaza's psychological trauma brings large numbers to seek help
Two years of intense Israeli bombardment and repeated military incursions, along with widespread homelessness and hunger, have affected all 2.3 million inhabitants.
Right-leaning Israelis demonstrate next to the Sde Teman military base near Beersheba, against the detention for questioning of military reservists who were suspected of abusing a detainee following the Oct. 7, 2023, attack in Israel, on July 29, 2024.
WORLD
Nov 4, 2025
Israel arrests former top army lawyer over leaked abuse video
The case began in August 2024 when Israel's Channel 12 broadcast footage from a military base that appeared to show soldiers doing "acts of violence" against a detainee.
Members of Lebanon's Shiite militant group Hezbollah mourn over the coffins of comrades killed in recent Israeli attacks during their funeral in the southern city of Nabatiyeh on Sunday.
WORLD
Nov 3, 2025
Israel warns of intensifying attacks against Hezbollah
The Iran-backed militant group, which opposes Israel, has been badly weakened by the war but remains armed and financially resilient.
People fleeing sectarian violence in Syria cross a river into northern Lebanon near the town of Masoudiyeh on March 12.
WORLD / Society
Oct 30, 2025
Syria’s rocky transition brings new waves of displacement
Between December 2024 and July 2025, more than 430,000 people in Syria were newly displaced, according to the United Nations.
A boy sits amid the rubble of a house destroyed in an Israeli strike in Nuseirat, in the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 30, 2025
Israeli army says ceasefire in Gaza resumed after strikes
The flare-up in hostilities on Tuesday was one of the worst since Israel and Hamas signed a truce in mid-October.
Lebanon's flag is seen next to a damaged building in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila in Lebanon on Feb. 19.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2025
Lebanese army walks political tightrope to disarm Hezbollah
Hezbollah, which is designated a terrorist group by the U.S., was once the dominant political force in Lebanon.
A Palestinian man reacts next to the body of a man, who according to medics was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 29, 2025
Israel strikes Gaza after accusing Hamas of violating U.S.-brokered ceasefire
The development is the latest test of the fragile deal brokered earlier this month.
Richard Attias has credited the Future Investment Initiative with playing a crucial role in driving investment, generating as much as $190 billion in deals since its 2017 launch.
BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 28, 2025
Saudi power broker pitches kingdom’s AI pivot to Wall Street
Richard Attias, who spent the past decade courting investors to back Saudi Arabia, credited the Future Investment Initiative with playing a crucial role in driving investment.
Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 12. Potentially as many as 10,000 Palestinians are unaccounted for and presumed dead, but in the devastation left by two years of war, with entire districts bombed or bulldozed into rubble, no one knows for sure.
WORLD
Oct 28, 2025
For Gazans buried in rubble or unmarked graves, a last indignity
There are potentially as many as 10,000 Palestinians unaccounted for and presumed dead, though in the devastation left by two years of war, no one knows for sure.
Beirut's skyline as seen from Mansourieh, Lebanon. The Israeli army still occupies five positions in southern Lebanon and continues to carry out strikes on Lebanese territory, claiming to target Hezbollah.
WORLD
Oct 28, 2025
U.N. and France slam Israel after attack on U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon
The incident "shows disregard for safety and security of the peacekeepers implementing Security Council mandated tasks in southern Lebanon," the U.N. peacekeeping force said.
Destroyed buildings and razed land in Gaza City on Oct. 19
WORLD / Politics
Oct 27, 2025
Trump’s push for Gulf to pay for rebuilding Gaza faces hurdles
Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have specific reservations about providing financing for reconstruction.
A drone view shows tents used by displaced Palestinians amid destroyed buildings following the withdrawal of the Israeli forces from the area in Gaza City on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 27, 2025
Netanyahu says Israel decides which foreign troops will secure Gaza ceasefire
Last week Netanyahu hinted that he would be opposed to any role for Turkish security forces in Gaza.
A member of the Israeli force stands guard as the Israeli forces block Palestinians and foreign activists from accessing olive trees during the olive harvest, near Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on Thursday.
WORLD
Oct 24, 2025
U.S. pressures Israel on West Bank as Rubio voices confidence in Gaza truce
Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned before his arrival in Israel that the annexation moves were "threatening" to the fragile ceasefire in Gaza.
An Israeli flag flutters near apartments in the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank on Aug. 16, 2020.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 23, 2025
Israel's parliament gives initial nod to occupied West Bank annexation
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party did not support the bill put forth by lawmakers outside his ruling coalition.
U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House in Washington on Sept. 25.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 22, 2025
Erdogan turns Trump's Gaza deal into a power play for Turkey
Initially resistant to Trump's ultimatum, Hamas leaders relented only when Turkey, a country they view as a political patron, urged them to agree to the plan.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
New satellite images suggest 'mass graves' in Sudan's El-Fasher
A general view of a berm construction in Kinin Village near El-Fasher.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
Takaichi calls for the updating of Japan's economic security law
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks to a panel on promoting economic security in Japan on Friday.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
Yokozuna duo Onosato and Hoshoryu poised for another clash of titans
Yokozuna duo Onosato (right) and Hoshoryu clash for the title on the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
A 40-year wait for ‘Mishima’ ends at TIFF
Made at a time when Japan was still grappling with Yukio Mishima’s legacy, Paul Schrader’s biopic “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” was blocked from screening in the country for decades.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.

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