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MILITARY

Federal law enforcement officers line up in the Brighton Park neighborhood in Chicago on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 6, 2025
Trump administration brands U.S. cities war zones
An escalating political crisis across the country is pitting Trump's anti-crime and migration crackdown against Democrats who accuse him of an authoritarian power grab.
U.S. President Donald Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing in November 2017.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 6, 2025
China hawks grow queasy over Trump’s push for deals with Beijing
As Trump pursues a trade pact with the U.S.’s biggest economic and strategic rival, advocates of a tougher China policy fear they’re being sidelined inside the administration.
A member of the Chinese People's Liberation Army stands as a DF-17 hypersonic missile is displayed during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 5, 2025
The missiles threatening Taiwan
China is transforming parts of its east coast into a platform for potential missile strikes against Taiwan and the nearby seas as it eyes taking the democratic island.
Law enforcement officers detain a demonstrator during a protest at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday.
WORLD
Oct 5, 2025
Judge blocks Trump on Portland troops as national guard ordered to Illinois
A Trump-appointed judge said in an order that the national guard deployment to the Oregon city did not appear to be justified due to the limited nature of the protests.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Defense Development 2025 military exhibition event ahead of the 80th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang in this picture released Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 5, 2025
North Korea says 'special assets' deployed against South
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un claimed the U.S.-South Korea "nuclear alliance" is "conducting various kinds of exercises to execute dangerous scenarios."
JB Pritzker
WORLD / Politics
Oct 5, 2025
Illinois governor says Trump to send National Guard to state over his objection
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said President Donald Trump plans to call up 300 members of the state’s national guard, defying local political opposition.
Afghan soldiers stand guard at the gate of Bagram Air Base, Parwan province, Afghanistan, on July 2, 2021, the day the last American troops vacated the facility.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2025
Will Trump strike Afghanistan over Bagram Air Base?
For Afghans, the cost of another military conflict with the U.S. would be ruinous.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth greet each other during a meeting of senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia on Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2025
Trump and Hegseth advance militaristic noise over nuance
For countries that study U.S. actions closely, this week’s spectacle was anything but reassuring.
U.S. President Donald Trump departs after addressing senior military officers gathered at the Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 1, 2025
Trump speech to military brass hints at looming Pentagon shift to focus on homeland
Amid a litany of talking points were Trump’s hints at an increasingly inward-looking foreign policy stance.
The Pentagon has recommitted itself to scaling back its military mission in Iraq.
WORLD
Oct 1, 2025
Pentagon says Iraq mission being scaled back
The move will see Baghdad command efforts to combat remnants of the Islamic State group inside its own country.
U.S. President Donald Trump addresses senior military officers gathered at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 1, 2025
Trump tells military brass U.S. faces ‘invasion from within’
The president has sought to involve the military in his political agenda despite fears by top officers that this could erode support for an institution meant to be apolitical.
A U.S. Marine and a member of the National Guard patrol outside a federal building in Los Angeles in June.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2025
Resisting Trump’s show of force
In Trump’s paradigm, this is all a reality show and we are merely inconsequential extras without lines forever in the background.
U.S. President Donald Trump is welcomed by Chinese leader Xi Jinping during an arrival ceremony in Beijing in November 2017.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 30, 2025
Xi pushes Trump to 'oppose' Taiwan independence in major shift
Any change in wording will fan concerns that Washington’s position on the self-ruled democracy is becoming a trade war bargaining chip.
ICE agents stand guard during a protest against the immigration policies of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, outside an ICE detention facility in Portland, Oregon, on Sept. 1.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 28, 2025
Trump authorizes 'full force' troop deployment in Portland, Oregon
The U.S. president has made crime a major focus of his administration even as violent crime rates have fallen in many U.S. cities, including Portland.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro addresses pro-Palestinian demonstrators, through a translator, at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza outside United Nations headquarters, during the U.N. General Assembly in New York City on Friday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 28, 2025
Colombian leader’s call to defy Trump amplifies rifts in region
Trump’s confrontational approach to Latin America, which is still scarred by U.S. interventions before and during the Cold War, will be tested in a string of upcoming elections.
Fishermen sail on a boat near Caraballeda, in Venezuela's La Guaira state, on Wednesday.
WORLD / FOCUS
Sep 27, 2025
Sitting ducks: Venezuelan fishermen wary of U.S. warships
Feeling exposed, they have started heading out in groups, limiting their range and traveling with emergency beacons issued by the government.
U.S.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States at the Pentagon, in Washington.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2025
As U.S. military leaders prepare for Virginia meeting, agenda comes into focus
Some officials have billed the meeting between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and top U.S. military leaders across the globe as focused on the "warrior ethos."
A DJI drone at a technology and industry trade fair in Berlin
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 27, 2025
Drone maker DJI loses lawsuit to exit Pentagon's list of firms with Chinese military ties
The world's largest drone maker said it was disappointed that the judge upheld the listing and was evaluating its legal options.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington on Sept. 19.
WORLD
Sep 26, 2025
Hegseth orders U.S. military officials from around world to Virginia next week
It was unclear how many officials will actually attend the event, but it is rare to have so many senior officials in the same room at the same time.
Suzu Hirose (left), Satoshi Tsumabuki (center) and Masataka Kubota (right) play childhood friends caught up in the simmering tensions of postwar Okinawa in Keisuke Otomo’s “Hero’s Island.”
CULTURE / Film
Sep 25, 2025
‘Hero’s Island’: Okinawa-set epic is lavishly realized but lacks bite
Keisuke Otomo recreates postwar turmoil in rich detail that is sometimes more vivid than the characters themselves.
How Takaichi won the LDP’s leadership race
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, poses in the party leader's office after the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on Saturday.
Asahi ships beer using paper and fax after ransomware attack
Drinks produced by Asahi at a liquor store in Tokyo. Retailers in Japan are warning customers of possible Asahi Super Dry beer shortages after a cyberattack paralyzed production and distribution at the major brewer.
Retro-wrapped trains mark 100th anniversary of Tokyo's Yamanote Line
Trains decorated to resemble the 103 (left) and 205 series of trains that formerly ran on the Yamanote Line, in Tokyo on Saturday.
Den-en-toshi Line trains collide, halting service
A not-in-service train is seen derailed early Monday morning after colliding with a passenger train late Sunday at Kajigaya Station on Tokyu Railways' Den-en-toshi Line in Kawasaki.
North Korea says 'special assets' deployed against South
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Defense Development 2025 military exhibition event ahead of the 80th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang in this picture released Sunday.
Takaichi, the LDP’s first female president, is far from an ‘overnight success’
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi greets her fellow LDP members on Saturday at party headquarters.
How a family-run landscaper turned the Osaka Expo green
The team at Ryokukou Garden consists primarily of a single family, including Toshiki Tanisaki (second from right), who led the company's efforts at the Osaka Expo, Chikako Tanisaki (fifth from right), who performs daily maintanence at the expo, and Takeshi Tanisaki (fourth from right), who added a nursery to the family farm more than 50 years ago.
Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo
Avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and his team from Alinea are in Tokyo for a three-week residency.
Japan’s first foreign wine investor plants its roots in Hokkaido
Intrigued by Japanese wines, Burgundy winemaker Etienne de Montille decided to explore Hokkaido's wine scene, eventually setting up his outpost in Hakodate in 2017.
Tea ceremony experts see matcha boom as a big opportunity
Atsuko Mori, founder and director of Kyoto-based tea salon Camellia Tea Ceremony, prepares matcha during a tea ceremony in Kyoto.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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