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Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev talks to U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff during a meeting in Saint Petersburg, Russia on April 11.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 22, 2025
Trump officials’ meeting with Russian envoy spurs questions about latest Ukraine plan
The meeting took place in Miami at the end of October and included special envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Kirill Dmitriev.
The site of a Russian drone strike in Odesa, Ukraine, on Friday.
WORLD / EXPLAINER
Nov 22, 2025
What's in the U.S. peace plan for ending the war in Ukraine?
The plan gives Russia — which is inching forward on the battlefield and controls almost one-fifth of Ukraine — much of what it wants.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena attend a ceremony in Kyiv on Friday.
WORLD
Nov 22, 2025
Ukraine faces 'difficult choice' as Trump demands acceptance of peace plan
U.S. President Donald Trump said he believed Thursday was an appropriate deadline for Kyiv to accept the plan.
Ukrainian rescue personnel operate at the site of a heavily damaged residential building following a Russian airstrike in the city of Ternopil on Thursday.
WORLD
Nov 21, 2025
A relative’s search and fading hope after Russian attack in western Ukraine
While Ihor Cherepanskyi has little hope of seeing his great-grandmother alive again, he hopes her body can be recovered so she can be buried beside his great-grandfather.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose office said he had received a draft of the U.S.-backed plan to end the war, says Kyiv and Washington will work together on elements of it.
WORLD
Nov 21, 2025
Zelenskyy says he is ready to work on U.S.-backed plan to end war in Ukraine
European countries are pushing back against the U.S.-backed plan, but the Ukrainian president said Kyiv and Washington would work together on elements of it.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara holds a news conference on Thursday.
JAPAN
Nov 20, 2025
Japan completes PAC-3 missile export to U.S.
The missiles, held by the Air Self-Defense Force, were exported under a contract signed in July last year at the request of the United States.
People stand outside the Russian consulate in Gdansk, Poland, which is being closed by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 20, 2025
Poland to close Russian consulate and deploy troops after railway sabotage
Poland says two Ukrainians collaborating with Moscow perpetrated the weekend blast on a train line that connects Warsaw to the Ukrainian border.
A residential building heavily damaged by a Russian airstrike in the city of Ternopil, Ukraine, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Nov 20, 2025
26 killed, many missing in Russian strike on apartment buildings in west Ukraine
The strikes also hit energy and transport infrastructure and forced emergency power cuts in a number of regions in frigid temperatures.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 20, 2025
Ukraine would be forced to give up land under U.S. peace plan
The plan would be a major setback for Kyiv as it faces further Russian territorial gains and an internal corruption scandal.
Gen. Randy George, chief of staff of the U.S. Army, speaks during a ceremony honoring prisoners of war, at the Pentagon in Washington, on Sept. 19.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 19, 2025
Top U.S. army officials in Ukraine in attempt to revive peace talks, Politico reports
The two officials make a rare, unannounced visit to Kyiv by the Trump administration.
In U.S. President Donald Trump's view, wars abroad have left the U.S. military overstretched, and his answer has been to push allies in Europe and Asia to shoulder more of the burden for their own defense.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 19, 2025
U.S. retreat as world’s top cop under Trump opens door to regional strife
The good news is a great-power war remains unlikely.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (second from right) visits the site of a blast on the railway of the Warsaw-Lublin line in Mika, Poland, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 19, 2025
Polish PM says two responsible for railway blast worked for Russian intelligence
Russia has repeatedly denied being responsible for acts of sabotage, and the Kremlin dismissed accusations of involvement in the explosion.
Police inspect the site of a blast on railways on the Warsaw-Lublin line in Mika, Poland, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 18, 2025
Poland suspects 'foreign intelligence services' involved in rail sabotage
Poland has become the main hub for transporting military and humanitarian support to neighboring Ukraine since Russia's full-scale military invasion in February 2022.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a joint press conference with Greece’s prime minister following their meeting in Athens, on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 17, 2025
Zelenskyy in France to seal air-defense and warplane deals
The Ukrainian president is in Paris for talks with Emmanuel Macron as heavy Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine have increased in recent weeks.
A Ukrainian soldier runs past the site where a Russian glide bomb exploded minutes earlier near the embattled city of Pokrovsk, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, in August.
WORLD
Nov 15, 2025
Russia plans to make up to 120,000 glide bombs this year, Kyiv says
The bombs, whose range was previously estimated to be up to 90 km, can breach Ukrainian defenses without sending planes across front lines.
A Russian airstrike hits Kyiv on Friday. Ukrainian forces retaliated by carrying out an attack on a major Russian Black Sea port.
WORLD
Nov 15, 2025
Ukraine hits Russian Black Sea oil port as six die in Kyiv
Ukrainian forces carried out an attack on a major Russian Black Sea port overnight, prompting a state of emergency, as Moscow launched a widespread air strike on Kyiv that killed at least six and damaged residential buildings.
Smoke rises from the Unecha oil pumping station during a fire, in Unechsky district, Bryansk region, Russia, on Aug. 21.
WORLD
Nov 14, 2025
Spare Russian oil refining capacity offsetting drone damage, sources say
Ukraine has ramped up drone attacks deep inside Russia, aiming to knock out oil refineries, depots and pipelines.
Ukrainian emergency personnel work at the scene of a drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday.
WORLD
Nov 14, 2025
Intel shows Putin not ready for Ukraine deal, Britain's ex-MI6 chief says
Richard Moore, who stepped down as head of MI6 in September, also said there could be consequences in terms of Chinese activity if the West didn’t help Ukraine prevail.
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.
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.
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