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Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand (center) leads a G7-plus session on maritime security during the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting at the White Oaks Resort in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 13, 2025
G7 diplomats mull how to get Russia to engage in Ukraine peace talks
Efforts to organize a summit between the presidents of Russia and the U.S. were put on ice last month after Moscow's rejection of an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.
Ukraine's then-energy minister, German Galushchenko (left), and Chief State Inspector for Nuclear and Radiation Safety of Ukraine Oleh Korikov speak during the IAEA’s Board of Governors meeting at the agency’s headquarters in Vienna on Dec. 12, 2024.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 13, 2025
Ukraine moves to quell $100 million energy corruption scandal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the dismissal of two cabinet ministers amid a probe into an alleged $100 million corruption scheme.
Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow. The 30 Japanese individuals Russia's Foreign Ministry targeted for the ban include Japan's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Toshihiro Kitamura as well as researchers and members of the press.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 12, 2025
Russia bans entry of 30 more Japanese nationals
It was Moscow's first decision to ban Japanese nationals from entering Russia since the inauguration of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi last month.
Smoke rises from a residential area of Pokrovsk, the Donetsk region in Ukraine, on Nov. 3.
WORLD
Nov 12, 2025
Russian forces roll 'Mad Max'-style into Ukraine's Pokrovsk, video shows
Moscow says taking Pokrovsk would give it a platform to drive north toward the two biggest remaining Ukrainian-controlled cities in the Donetsk region.
Diana Loginova, an 18-year-old music student and musician known by the stage name Naoko, speaks with her mother Irina as she appears in court over new public order charges in St. Petersburg on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 12, 2025
Russian teenager who sang anti-Kremlin songs in street gets more jail time
Diana Loginova, 18, was arrested in St. Petersburg last month after giving a series of impromptu street concerts where she sang covers of songs penned by Kremlin critics.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the media in Kyiv on Nov. 7.
WORLD
Nov 12, 2025
Close Zelenskyy ally accused of orchestrating major graft scheme
The accusations against Timur Mindich are the latest episode in a sweeping corruption scandal involving claims of massive embezzlement from the energy sector.
The U.S.' recent approval of South Korea’s nuclear submarine program may set a precedent for Japan, which could consider similar nuclear capabilities amid growing regional security threats.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 11, 2025
Japan should resist the temptation to go nuclear
Japan moving ahead on any nuclear options would be a mistake no matter what the United States, Russia or South Korea might do.
Ukrainians living in Poland and their supporters gather outside the Ukrainian Embassy in Warsaw to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 10, 2025
Poland’s support for Ukrainians is cracking at a dangerous time
Polish President Karol Nawrocki has voiced skepticism of Ukraine’s aspirations for NATO and European Union membership.
A preserved part of the border between Thuringia and Bavaria, close to the old border between East and West Germany, near the village of Modlareuth, Germany, on Sept. 25, 2020. Many East Germans are more sympathetic toward Moscow than their western compatriots, reflecting decades of Soviet ties and disillusionment since reunification.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 10, 2025
Why Germany is still divided when it comes to Russia
While most West Germans have condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many East Germans have a nuanced view and are cautious on imposing sanctions on Moscow.
Rescuers work at the site of a heavily damaged residential building following an air attack in Dnipro, Ukraine. A massive Russian attack hit Ukraine's energy infrastructure, killing two people and prompting power cuts in several regions, Kyiv authorities said on Saturday.
WORLD
Nov 9, 2025
Ukraine scrambles for energy with power generation at 'zero'
Experts said the strikes on energy infrastructure put Ukraine at risk of heating outages ahead of the winter months.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a news conference in Moscow last month.
WORLD
Nov 8, 2025
Kremlin dismisses speculation that Lavrov has fallen out of favor with Putin
Lavrov, a veteran diplomat known for his robust negotiating style, was absent from a big Kremlin meeting this week that he would typically attend.
Ukrainian soldiers prepare to fire a howitzer toward Russian troops near Donetsk
WORLD
Nov 8, 2025
Ukraine digs in to try to halt biggest Russian win in two years
More than 300 Russian soldiers have entered the eastern city of Pokrovsk in an intense assault, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hold a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 8, 2025
Hungary's Orban wins Russian oil sanctions exemption from Trump
The U.S. decision to impose sanctions on Russia’s biggest oil firms threatened to undermine Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s already shaky bid for a fifth consecutive term.
Helle Kristoffersen, Asia president of French oil and gas conglomerate TotalEnergies, speaks at a session of the French Japanese Business Summit on Thursday in Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2025
Japan’s energy import strategy compelling for landlocked European nations
Europe has grappled with energy security following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister’s Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Nov 6, 2025
Takaichi vows continued support in first talks with Zelenskyy
The prime minister held her first telephone talks with Ukraine’s president on Wednesday.
Commander of a drone unit of the 7th Rapid Response Corps holds a drone before his unit's deployment to Pokrovsk at an undisclosed location in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday.
WORLD
Nov 6, 2025
Russia and Ukraine say they are locked in fierce fighting in Pokrovsk
Ukraine said its troops face a difficult position in the city, once an important transport and logistics hub for the Ukrainian army that Russia has been trying to capture.
U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before a meeting at the Demilitarized Zone in Panmunjom, South Korea, in June 2019
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 5, 2025
U.S.-North Korea summit may be held in spring, South's spy agency tells lawmaker
U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly called for a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his trip to South Korea last week, but Kim did not respond to his overtures.
Members of the U.S. Navy react as U.S. President Donald Trump acknowledges them at Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Virginia, on Oct. 5.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 5, 2025
Trump's military use in other countries tests his MAGA base
The move is prompting an outcry among some mainstream Republicans and even some of his most ardent supporters.
Mike Burgess, director-general of security for the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, delivers the 2025 Lowy Lecture in Sydney on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 5, 2025
Australian spy chief says 'state sanctioned trolls' sowing social discord
Australia faces a trend seen across Western democracies of declining trust and rising disinformation.
The Arch of Independence in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. Central Asia’s Turkic nations, united by shared history and culture, are emerging as a strategic counterbalance to Russia and China, offering Japan opportunities for investment and influence.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 4, 2025
Why Japan — like the U.S. — needs Central Asia
The C5 — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan — concerns Japan more directly than seems immediately obvious.
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.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Government and bad actors are at the root of the foreign national issue
A maiko walks down a street crowded with tourists in Kyoto. Challenges that come with a massive influx of overseas visitors and foreign nationals buying up real estate are just some of the immigration problems that have become hot-button political issues in Japan.
Japan lawmakers eye firm response to Chinese envoy's threat to behead PM
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Friday.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
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