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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio (right) and Ukrainian Presidential Office Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak hold a news conference following their closed-door talks on a U.S. plan to end the war in Ukraine at the U.S. Mission in Geneva on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 24, 2025
U.S. and Ukraine continue work on 'refined' peace plan to end war with Russia
The "updated and refined peace framework" to end the war with Russia apparently modified an earlier plan seen as too sympathetic to Moscow.
A solar power station near Lobito, Angola, in 2024
BUSINESS
Nov 24, 2025
EU and Africa leaders to talk trade and minerals, as Ukraine looms large
Leaders are gathering in Angola on Monday for a summit aimed at deepening economic and security ties that will serve as a backdrop to emergency talks on Ukraine.
Aonishiki celebrates after winning the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday.
SUMO
Nov 24, 2025
Aonishiki still in disbelief after winning first title at Kyushu Basho
The 21-year-old, who fled the war in Ukraine three years ago, is set to be promoted to sumo's second-highest rank this week.
Ukrainian sumo wrestler Aonishiki receives the Prime Minister's Cup from Takahiro Inoue, an adviser to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, on Sunday in Fukuoka after becoming the first from his nation to win a tournament in the traditional Japanese sport.
SUMO
Nov 23, 2025
War refugee Aonishiki becomes first Ukrainian to win sumo tournament
The 21-year-old won the Kyushu tournament after a tie-breaking victory over grand champion Hoshoryu from Mongolia.
Kateryna Golizdra holds her Ukrainian passport for a photograph outside her home in Margate, Florida, on Nov. 17.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Nov 23, 2025
Some 200,000 Ukrainians in U.S. in legal limbo under Trump immigration crackdown
Worried about arrests and deportation, some are leaving for Canada, Europe and elsewhere, as returning to Ukraine was not an option.
Rescuers search for missing people in a residential building in Ternopil, Ukraine, on Friday after Russian missiles hit apartment buildings in the area last week, far from the war’s front line.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2025
Trump signals room for negotiation on Ukraine plan amid 'wish list' criticism
Trump has given Ukraine until Nov. 27 to approve the plan to end the nearly 4-year conflict, but concerns have risen that the proposal heavily favors Russia.
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 23, 2025
Trump officials’ meeting with Russian envoy spurs questions about latest Ukraine plan
The meeting resulted in a 28-point plan for ending the war, sources said, that appears heavily tilted toward Russian interests.
Relatives of Ukrainian prisoners of war burn flares during a rally in Kyiv's Independence Square on Saturday calling to speed up their exchange, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2025
Western leaders say Ukraine plan needs work; Trump signals scope for changes
Western leaders have scrambled to come up with a coordinated response to U.S. President Donald Trump's demand for Ukraine to accept his peace plan with Russia by Thursday.
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.
Americans with four-year degrees now comprise a record 25% of unemployed workers
A job fair in Fletcher, North Carolina. The unemployment rate for bachelor’s degree-holders in the U.S. rose to 2.8% in September, up a half-percentage point from a year earlier.
Japan on track to deploy missiles to island near Taiwan, Koizumi says
Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to reporters after inspecting the Ground Self-Defense Force garrison on Yonaguni Island, Okinawa Prefecture, on Sunday.
War refugee Aonishiki becomes first Ukrainian to win sumo tournament
Ukrainian sumo wrestler Aonishiki receives the Prime Minister's Cup from Takahiro Inoue, an adviser to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, on Sunday in Fukuoka after becoming the first from his nation to win a tournament in the traditional Japanese sport.
Top Chinese diplomat weighs in on Takaichi’s ‘shocking’ Taiwan remarks
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivers delivers a speech at the opening ceremony of the Lanting Forum in Beijing on Oct. 27.
Japan blasts China’s ‘entirely baseless’ claims after U.N. letter
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a meeting on Ukraine on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg on Saturday.
TV icon Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's memoir paints a life of both war and glamour
“Totto” in “Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel” was the nickname young Tetsuko Kuroyanagi gave herself as a child, mispronouncing her first name.
The secret to 'Last Samurai Standing'? Treating live action like anime.
“Last Samurai Standing” centers on a mysterious fighting event in which participants must hack and slash their opponents apart to collect enough wooden tags to win a big-money prize.
‘Tampopo’ lives on in bowls of ramen around the world
Juzo Itami's 1985 movie "Tampopo" has inspired many restaurateurs around the world to open their own ramen shop with the same name, such as this establishment in Auckland, New Zealand.
All systems Go for upstart Machida Zelvia after landmark Emperor’s Cup triumph
Machida manager Go Kuroda lifts the trophy as the club celebrates its victory over Vissel Kobe in the Emperor’s Cup final at National Stadium on Saturday.
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.

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