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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian President addresses the "Summit of the Future" in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2024
Iran president warns of 'irreversible' consequences of wider regional war
The European Union's foreign policy chief described the current situation in the Middle East as nearly a full-fledged war.
Volunteers distribute food bags to people in Rishon LeZion in central Israel on Aug. 21.
WORLD
Sep 24, 2024
Israeli economy struggles under weight of Gaza war
Mass protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's controversial judicial reforms had already weakened Israel's economy prior to the Hamas attack on October 7.
Smoke billows from a site targeted by Israeli shelling in the southern Lebanese village of Zaita on Monday.
WORLD
Sep 24, 2024
Israeli airstrikes kill at least 492, Lebanon says, as civilians flee
After almost a year of war against Hamas in Gaza, Israel is shifting its focus to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
U.S. President Joe Biden, right, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, United Arab Emirate's president, walk through the White House in Washington on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 24, 2024
Biden designates UAE as a second major defense partner after India
The designation allows for close military cooperation through joint training, exercises and other collaborative efforts.
Relatives and friends attend a memorial ceremony for the Kutz family at the Gan-Yavne cemetery in the southern Israeli town of Beer Tuvia on Sept. 5.
WORLD
Sep 23, 2024
Kibbutz visit stirs grim memories of Israeli family slain on Oct. 7
In Kfar Aza, a kibbutz of 800 people, some 64 people were killed and 18 kidnapped by Palestinian militants and taken to the Gaza Strip.
Injured Palestinian student Fares al-Farra, 19, salvages some of his academic documents from the rubble of his home, destroyed due to Israeli bombardment, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Sept. 16.
WORLD
Sep 23, 2024
Bereaved and destitute: Gazans a year after Oct. 7
A student, a paramedic and a former civil servant in the Gaza Strip share their stories on how the conflict has destroyed their lives.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the launching of the Ukraine Compact at the 2024 NATO Summit in Washington in July
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2024
U.S. worries deepen as adversaries team up to challenge dominance
The moves by Russia, China, Iran and North Korea come despite facing some of the most sweeping sanctions the West has ever imposed.
Smoke billows over southern Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, Lebanon, near the border with Israel, on Sunday.
WORLD
Sep 23, 2024
Hezbollah and Israel exchange heavy fire in 'new phase' of fighting
The conflict escalated sharply in the past week after Hezbollah opened a second front, backing Palestinians amid Israel's offensive in Gaza.
Lebanese soldiers and civilians inspect the site of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2024
Israel’s plans for Hezbollah are becoming clearer
No ground invasion is imminent; instead, the aim appears to be to degrade Hezbollah to the point where it’s incapable of continuing the rocket and missile attacks.
Rescuers sift through the rubble Saturday at the scene of an Israeli strike that targeted Beirut's southern suburbs a day earlier.
WORLD
Sep 22, 2024
Israel’s risky new posture against Hezbollah stops short of war
The attacks are aimed at preemptively degrading Hezbollah’s military prowess so that they won’t be able to launch an attack similar to the Oct. 7 strike by Hamas.
Smoke rises from Jabal al-Rihan in Lebanon amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces on Saturday.
WORLD
Sep 22, 2024
Israeli jets pound Lebanon after deadly Beirut strike
For nearly a year, Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon have traded fire with Israel in support of Hamas, whose Oct. 7 attack on Israel triggered war in Gaza.
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 21, 2024
Prospects for a Gaza cease-fire dim even as U.S. maintains hopes
Reaching deal before end of Biden's term appears increasingly difficult, sources and officials say.
People inspect the site of an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday.
WORLD
Sep 21, 2024
Top Hezbollah commander among 14 killed in Israeli strike on Beirut
Ibrahim Aqil was killed with other senior members of an elite Hezbollah unit, sharply escalating the yearlong conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed group.
Hashim Safieddine, a Shiite Muslim cleric and the head of Hezbollah's Executive Council, speaks Wednesday during a funeral in Beirut for some of those killed after paging devices exploded in a deadly wave across Lebanon the previous day.
EDITORIALS
Sep 20, 2024
Pager bombs just add more fuel to the Middle East fire
The tale that is emerging after the pager bombs is one that resembles a spy novel, a feat of derring-do by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.
An Israeli fighter jet takes off at an unidentified location to conduct strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, in this photo released on Thursday.
WORLD
Sep 20, 2024
Israel unleashes strikes on Lebanon as U.S. and U.K. urge restraint
The U.S. said a diplomatic solution was achievable and urgent, and Britain called for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
The logo of Japanese walkie-talkie maker Icom at a shop in Tokyo. The firm said that it had stopped producing the model of radios reportedly used in recent blasts in Lebanon around a decade ago.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 19, 2024
Walkie-talkies in Lebanon blasts were discontinued a decade ago
Thousands of electronic devices, including pagers and walkie-talkies, exploded over the last two days, killing at least 26 people and wounding more than 3,000.
An Israeli naval officer holds the mooring rope of INS Tanin, a German-built Dolphin AIP class submarine, as it docks at a naval base in the northern city of Haifa after its arrival in Israel in 2014.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 19, 2024
Germany has stopped approving war weapons exports to Israel, source says
Legal challenges across Europe have led other allies of Israel to pause or suspend arms exports.
A man reacts while holding a Hezbollah flag during the funeral of people killed after hundreds of paging devices exploded in a deadly wave across Lebanon the previous day, in Beirut on Wednesday.
WORLD
Sep 19, 2024
Israel cites ‘new phase’ in regional war after Lebanon blasts
More military resources will be deployed to the north of the country, where Israel has been exchanging rocket fire with Hezbollah militants for almost a year.
One of the coffins is carried during the funeral of Mohammed Bilal Kanj, Mohamed Hassan Nour al-Din, Abbas Fadel Yassin and Mohammad Mahdi Ammar, son of Hezbollah member of the Lebanese parliament, Ali Ammar, who were killed amid the detonation of pagers across Lebanon, in Beirut on Wednesday.
WORLD
Sep 19, 2024
Hezbollah devices explode again in Lebanon, raising fears of wider Israel conflict
Lebanon's health ministry said 20 people were killed on Wednesday, while Tuesday's explosions killed 12 and injured 3,000.
A soldier stands guard near the American University of Beirut Medical Center after as many as 2,800 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 18, 2024
Hezbollah pager attack looks like a decapitation strike
The sophisticated nature of the attack, involving the insertion of explosive material into pagers, suggests a high level of intelligence and planning.
China seizes disputed reef near key Philippine military outpost
China Coast Guard officers unfurl a national flag on Sandy Cay reef, near the Philippine-held Thitu Island, in disputed waters of the South China Sea this month in this screen shot taken from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
Japan to resist Trump efforts to form trade bloc against China
As Japan gears up for the trade talks, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is also seeking to cushion the blow that the U.S. tariffs may have on the domestic economy.
As many as nine dead after driver plows into Vancouver festival crowd
An ambulance is parked at the site of the Lapu Lapu day festival, where a vehicle drove into a crowd killing several people in Vancouver on Saturday.
Arunima Mazumdar: ‘Japanese literature has a niche but deeply engaged readership in India’
Arunima Mazumdar, a New Delhi-based communications professional, began sharing her love of Japanese literature online in 2022. The platform has grown into a robust community known as Dokusha Book Club.
Japan struggles with gray zone of AI deepfakes exploiting children
AI-generated content — including those made using pictures of real people, which are known as “deepfakes” — is not explicitly covered under Japan's current legal framework, nor are human-drawn illustrations that depict child abuse.
Expo '25 gives the world a masterclass in mascots
2025 Osaka Expo mascot Myaku-Myaku dances on the stage during the event's official opening ceremony on April 12.
Japan struggles with gray zone of AI deepfakes exploiting children
AI-generated content — including those made using pictures of real people, which are known as “deepfakes” — is not explicitly covered under Japan's current legal framework, nor are human-drawn illustrations that depict child abuse.
‘Wildcat Dome’ challenges Japan's historical narratives
On the surface, "Wildcat Dome" tells a personal story of damaged children — now adults — bound together by tragedy. Underneath, there’s a constant undercurrent of political consequence, invisible and pervasive like radioactive particles.
Reclaiming Sanya, one meal at a time
Magokoro Yoshihira (center) is the managing director of Yui Associates, which operates the neighborhood fixtures of Sanya Cafe and Juyoh Hotel. Yusuke Takahashi (left) met Yoshihira during a difficult period in his life and now works as the cafe’s chef. Nancy Anne (right) has worked for over 10 years at Juyoh Hotel and enjoys the multicultural environment.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
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