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Indonesian military personnel stand guard as residents gather near the area after an explosion occurred at a school complex in Jakarta on Nov. 7.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Nov 19, 2025
Indonesian teen's diary and online trail show path to Jakarta mosque blasts
According to police, the teenager had joined an international Telegram channel where members shared violent material and discussed past attacks.
Indian soldiers stand guard near the site of a deadly car blast in the Red Fort area in the old quarters of New Delhi on Nov. 11.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Nov 17, 2025
India arrests suspected accomplice in Delhi suicide bombing
The National Investigation Agency says that Amir Rashid Ali, a Kashmiri resident, conspired with the suicide bomber to plan the attack.
Indian officials at the site of an explosion in New Delhi on Monday
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 14, 2025
Modi’s new red line on terrorism raises stakes after New Delhi blast
Following a clash with Pakistan earlier this year, India's prime minister vowed to treat any future attacks on civilians as an "act of war.”
The Eiffel Tower is illuminated in the colors of the French national flag to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2015 Paris terror attacks, in Paris, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Nov 13, 2025
Ten years after Paris attacks, jihadi threat has evolved
The groups themselves are now most active in Africa as well as parts of Asia rather than Europe.
Firefighters douse a car at the suicide blast site in Islamabad on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 12, 2025
Pakistan ‘in a state of war’ after explosion kills 12 in capital
The attack has raised alarm that insurgent violence, confined in recent years to Pakistan’s western regions, has reached its urban centers.
Security officials at the site of an explosion in New Delhi on Monday
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 12, 2025
Blasts rock capitals of India and Pakistan, raising tensions
Suspicions have been running deep between the neighbors following a four-day military clash earlier this year in which both countries conducted strikes on each other.
Police personnel inspect charred vehicles as they cordon off the blast site after an explosion near the Red Fort in the old quarters of New Delhi on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 11, 2025
Delhi police says car blast being probed under anti-terrorism law
The explosion in the Indian capital on Monday evening killed at least eight people and injured 20.
A newspaper vendor pulls a newspaper with an article reporting U.S. President Donald Trump's message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians, at a newspaper stand in Lagos on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2025
Nigeria says U.S. help against Islamist insurgents must respect its sovereignty
President Donald Trump has threatened military action in Nigeria over what he said was the ill-treatment of Christians in the West African country.
Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi (center) leaves after attending a news conference at the Embassy of Afghanistan in New Delhi on Oct. 12. The reopening of India's embassy in Kabul followed Muttaqi’s recent visit to India's capital.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 2, 2025
India’s Kabul return may recast global Taliban policy
The reopening followed Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s recent visit to India, enabled by a special United Nations sanctions exemption.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after arriving on Air Force One in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday. Trump on Saturday threatened Nigeria with potential military action and said the United States might cut off aid, accusing the West African country’s government of failing to protect Christians.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 2, 2025
Trump threatens U.S. military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians
Trump's post on Nigeria came a day after adding it back to a list of nations that the U.S. says have violated religious freedom.
A Taliban soldier stands guard as deported Afghan refugees from Pakistan arrive at the border crossing between Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 29, 2025
Pakistan says peace talks with Afghanistan 'failed'
Pakistan and Afghanistan have been holding negotiations in Istanbul aimed at securing peace after deadly border clashes killed more than 70 people and wounded hundreds.
Afghan Taliban fighters patrol near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in Spin Boldak, Kandahar Province, following exchanges of fire between Pakistani and Afghan forces in Afghanistan on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 16, 2025
Ceasefire called after new Pakistan-Afghanistan clashes kill dozens
The ceasefire, which began at 6:00 p.m. Islamabad time and is said to last 48 hours, followed a week of violence between the two neighbors.
Mourners and villagers carry the coffin of a Pakistani soldier in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Oct 14, 2025
Why has the latest Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict erupted?
Late on Saturday, Taliban forces attacked Pakistani military posts along the length of the 2,600-kilometer border, with Pakistani forces later retaliating.
Afghan citizens and their vehicles loaded with belongings idle in Chaman, Pakistan, as they head back to their country after Pakistan closed border crossings with Afghanistan on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 12, 2025
Pakistan-Afghan border crossings closed after heavy clashes
The neighboring countries have had frosty relations since the Taliban returned to power in Kabul in 2021.
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.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, (left), U.S. President Donald Trump and Kristi Noem, secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, during a roundtable on Antifa in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 9, 2025
Trump looks to label Antifa as a foreign terrorist organization
Critics have said the administration is exaggerating the threat from Antifa, seizing on the movement to create a legal justification to quell protests against Trump’s policies.
British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood on the BBC's "Sunday Morning" political television show in Manchester, England, on Sunday. She will give police new powers to place limits on repeated protests
WORLD
Oct 6, 2025
U.K. to introduce limits on protests after synagogue attack
The move comes a day after police arrested nearly 500 people in the latest protest in Trafalgar Square in support of the banned Palestine Action group.
People attend a vigil to remember the victims of the Manchester Synagogue attack in Manchester, U.K. on Friday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 4, 2025
U.K. confronts rising long-term terror threat from Gaza war
The attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Thursday has crystallized concern building in the British security services since Oct. 7, 2023.
Members of a forensic team work outside a Manchester synagogue on Friday where multiple people were killed a day earlier.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2025
U.K. police may have accidentally shot dead victim in synagogue attack
The attacker, whom armed officers shot dead at the scene, was not carrying a firearm, though one of those killed suffered a gunshot wound.
People react near where an attack took place in which a car was driven at pedestrians and stabbings were reported near Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation synagogue in Crumpsall in north Manchester, Britain, on Thursday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2025
Two dead in attack at U.K. synagogue on Yom Kippur, with suspect shot dead
The suspect, who was wearing what appeared to be a vest with an explosive device, was shot dead at the scene by armed officers.
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
Japan plans higher visa fees for foreign residents
Along with planned higher fees for foreign residents to stay, Japan is looking to raise the ¥3,000 single-entry visa fee for inbound tourists to Western standards in the next fiscal year.
Two men suspected of smuggling 1 ton of gold into Japan from South Korea
U.K. gold bullion bars and coins are displayed at Baird & Co. in Hatton Garden in London.
Takaichi rejects China's demand to retract Taiwan remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has rejected China's demands for her to retract her comments on Taiwan, saying Tokyo's stance on a major regional security crisis remains unchanged.
¥21.3 trillion stimulus package approved by Cabinet
The Cabinet is expected to submit an extra budget bill to finance the package to parliament, which is in session until Dec. 17.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.

Podcast

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

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Juzo Itami’s “Tampopo” was released Nov. 23, 1985, and though it wasn’t a hit at the time, it has gained a cult following in the years since.
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